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The Year of Play, Part One
It was all roses until it wasn’t.
Reflections of Normal People
There’s a moment in Episode 3 of Normal People (Hulu’s 2020 series based on Sally Rooney’s novel) - it’s a music cue, actually.
The Year of Listening
2023 was a wild year. I got laid off, lost a bunch of friends, made a bunch of new ones, and set out to become a better listener. It was the best year yet.
The Year of Kindness
End of 2021, we did it differently. We set intentions coming into the year. Mine was Kindness. I wanted to, by the end of 2022, be able to be kind to More (types of people, animals, and forms of life) and More Deeply kind (meeting them on terms they valued). Call it two axes of kindness.
2,081 days.
2,081 days. From October 3rd, 2016, when I was incredibly proud I had managed to predict Bay Area traffic well enough to walk in exactly 16 minutes before my first session of New Hire Orientation, at Facebook’s headquarters (Building 15, first floor, a giant room called Son of Ping & Pong - 16 minutes felt like the perfect amount of Early but not Too Early to the first day of my new life), to the start of my Recharge on June 15th, 2022, 2,081 days will have passed.
Fog
On this ride, the streetlights captured patches of fog in their spotlights. Sometimes moving, sometimes quite still, the fog was all at once a cloud and batches of tiny droplets of water. And it’s everywhere. It envelops the street, the trees, and me, cutting through it with a box of bees tucked under one arm.
A Meditation on Popcorn
Something that's a bit of a learning for me in 2021 is it doesn't have to.
My aim is to make this into a meditation, a service. It takes roughly five minutes to precisely walk through these steps, to give my full attention to this simplest of crafts. This is not about me - it's about us having a shared experience. I'll provide some snacks; let's create a memory.
My aim is to make this into a meditation, a service. It takes roughly five minutes to precisely walk through these steps, to give my full attention to this simplest of crafts. This is not about me - it's about us having a shared experience. I'll provide some snacks; let's create a memory.
Ranking T. Swift's Pop Period
It's an entire lifetime in not even half a bridge. IT (as the kids say) SLAPS. GTFO how good this album is.
*My* Top 10 Films from 2019
I spend a lot of time looking at the moon these days. I was born in the 80s so I probably take for granted the outcome of landing a human on the moon and what a spectacular achievement it was, and how many things had to break right for that achievement to be realized.
2019 Reads
Best book I read this year: The Chronology of Water (Yuknavitch). Drugs, affairs, alcohol, time, and trauma combine to blur this memoir into a series of stray vignettes. There were times I had to simply put this book down in the middle of a chapter -- something about the way Yuknavitch thrusts herself into experiences whether painful, joyous, thrilling, or outright foolish really got to me.
37 is Weird
one of the ladies in the pool is staring at me with a strange look on her face. This is when I realize I'm absolutely stark naked, my swimsuit is in my mouth while I fiddle with my goggles and towel.
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