Category: Thoughts

There’s a moment happening, and it can be difficult to talk about. Even difficult to mention.

How can we have meaningful conversations?

How can we talk about anything else without addressing what’s happening?

That’s difficult to grapple with.

When this reality presses against the other, which one wins out?

How real something is often comes down to how we feel about it.

We all face a moment when we’ve crossed a line.

In that moment, it seem impossible to backtrack.

You can’t put the toothpaste in the tube.

But, however uncomfortable it may be, you can apologize. And start something new.

Treat others as you would like to be treated.

It’s something we all were taught. But, we don’t seem to implement it.

There’s room for discourse, dissension even, over how we thing organizations should be run. How governments should operate.

But how we treat people? That should not be a matter of debate.

Wanting and not wanting are two sides of the same coin. Both focus on an outcome. A desire.

Often, either will end in disappointment.

Very little is as satisfying as completing a project.

Sure, there’s more coming. Plenty more.

But knocking one out, completely done?

That’s a great feeling.

America isn’t one thing. I mean, it is. It’s a country.

Like a quilt is a quilt.

But it’s made up of individual components, which is what gives the quilt its beauty. S

o too does America get its beauty from all of its pieces.

Sometimes the point in doing it isn’t how it’s received.

It’s in the doing itself.

Our day to day is an accumulation of everything before. for many things that’s helpful. Don’t touch a hot stove for instance.

But we can get locked in negative habits just as easily. And it‘s those that will sometimes require a restart.

We think there is plenty of time. That we’ll get it done.

But, time passes. It slips away. And what are we left with?

I think, in the end, the best thing is to have as few regrets as possible.

Because there just isn’t enough time.