by Havi Brooks | Jan 20, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Unrelated but awesome! Today is Tu B’shvat. The birthday of the trees! So I will eat figs while thinking about sovereignty. Happy birthday, trees. This is a very partial list. Some of these things I learned from my dear, sweet Hiro, my sister-in-silliness and...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 5, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Or: the difference between process and actual destuckifying. When people set off on the trail of destuckification, it often happens that they hit the Grinding Your Wheels In The Mud phase. What wheel-grinding looks and sounds like: Looping conversations in our head,...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 14, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
I am not very good at goals. Mostly because I do not like them. Navigating and mapping and adventuring are more my style, not surprisingly, because those are things that pirates like. And I’m mostly okay with wishes as long as I pretend that they’re Very...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 12, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
Selma and the Schmoppet and I are at the Rally (Rally!) this week. Which means we are projectizing and destuckifying and getting a shocking amount of things done (we’ve already updated the events page — awesome). So today I’m going to do something a...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 6, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
I have been thinking a lot about exit strategies. Not that I’m going anywhere. Definitely not at the moment. But when Selma and I are done here …. or when we’re on Skabbatical… What do I really truly want my people to know? What types of things can I...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 6, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
There is the why that is about self-inquiry. It is inquisitive. It expresses genuine curiosity. “Huh. I wonder what elements combined to get me here.” Then there’s the why that is really asking why the hell am I like this and not the way I want to be...