Category: Reflections
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Weekly Reflections #18
In which we try to be here, now. This week a memory flooded back into my consciousness. It was the end of the summer in either 2005 or 2006, I cannot be sure, and I had just finished a summer working for the Appalachia Service Project (ASP). Most of the staff, about 125 of us,…
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Weekly Reflections #17
In which we melt into anarchy. Reading: Finished The Dispossessed yesterday. I don’t know. It was totally fine. One of those polemics cleverly disguised as a novel. There were moments, but only moments, of real characters and plot, and a lot of characters serving as mouthpieces for what felt like a college seminar’s philosophical debate.…
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Weekly Reflections #16
In which we do things for a second time. A few thoughts on finishing my second playthrough of Elden Ring, which I think is now my favorite videogame of all time: Reading: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin Watching: We just finished season 1 of Silo. The finale was superb. I don’t usually dig post-apocalyptic…
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The Inner Game
I finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey this morning, which is one of those books where if you get into the arena of mental models, performance, and general satisfaction, tends to get referenced quite a bit. So after it sat on my shelf for a year or two, I finally…
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Weekly Reflections #15
In which we contemplate a life offline. We lost internet for about 24 hours this week (it rained basically nonstop for about 4 days, a tree fell and snapped the overhead line that runs to our house). This got me thinking about the ridiculous amount of things we rely on the internet for–to the point…
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Weekly Reflections #11
In which we suppress a freakout about democracy. April is a month of travel for me. Twice to Tennessee, once to Orlando, once to New York, and in between a visit from my in-laws (who are lovely). I neither love nor hate travel, but that schedule is a little heavier than I’d like. Why? I…
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Weekly Reflections #9
In which we return from a break. A few notes from our 3-year delayed honeymoon in New Zealand: Speaking of which, I finished 4 books on the trip/in the last day or so. I think my favorite was Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (now a show on Amazon Prime). It’s a…
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Weekly Reflections #8
In which we prepare for a break. Next week we’ll leave for our covid-delayed honeymoon which happens to fall on our third anniversary. We’ve done the planning, figured the logistics, and I bought a number of paperback books to take on the flights (I own a Kindle but don’t love reading on it beyond silly…
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Weekly Reflections #7
I had a nightmare this week that I became a lawyer again. On a related note, I got a sleep aid from my doctor (pretty lightweight antihistamine that also controls anxiety) for the first time in my life. It’s great. When I need to take it (once or twice a month, usually), I fall asleep…
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Weekly Reflections #6
Reading: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin; Holacracy by Brian J. Robertson; Buddhism, Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen Watching: Still watching The Last of Us and Poker Face as they come out. The big headline is that our good friend Andrew Helms helped produce Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence,…
The Minimum Blues 