Wish #232: a new kind of winter

Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write a Very Personal Ad (aka Vision-Possibility-Anticipation) to practice wanting, and get clarity about my desires. Sometimes wanting feels conflicted or just plain hard, and that’s okay. At the...

The F Word.

When my brother was little, he came home from nursery school one day and announced, “I know the S word!” The parental reaction to this, if I remember correctly, was about halfway between shocked and bemused. And of course we had to figure out if he really...

Wish #231: Many happy returns?

Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write a Very Personal Ad (aka Vision-Possibility-Anticipation) to practice wanting, and get clarity about my desires. Sometimes wanting feels conflicted or just plain hard, and that’s okay. At the...

Wish #230: on the tip of my

Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write a Very Personal Ad (aka Vision-Possibility-Anticipation) to practice wanting, and get clarity about my desires. Sometimes wanting feels conflicted or just plain hard, and that’s okay. At the...

Barrington’s Discretionary.

A number of things have become startlingly clear for me this week… In some moments, this feels more like reassuringly-startlingly-clear and sometimes more like alarmingly-startlingly-clear. Though often both at the same time… accompanied by abrupt laughter that...

Wish #227: Operation Delete 8

Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write a Very Personal Ad (or Vision-Possibility-Anticipation) to practice wanting, and get clarity about my desire. Sometimes wanting feels conflicted or just plain hard, and that’s okay. At the...
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