Buy your project a beer.

The thing with projects is that they often like to talk. When you’re willing to show up and buy them a beer. And by project, I mean that mysterious thing that is anything at all that you’re working on or playing with. Anything you care about. It could be...

Trusting my instincts.

I never end up doing that thing where people choose a theme for the year. It makes sense, sure. I see how it can be useful to name an intention or invoke a quality. Kind of like my OOD practice. But for whatever reason, that word theme — for me! — seems...

Very Personal Ads #127: in this together

Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write these VPAs to practice asking for what I want. And to get clarity on what that really is, even when asking feels conflicted. I always get useful information about my relationship with various...

Long, Slow & Deep

This would be about eight or nine years ago. I’m not sure exactly — time is being slippery that way. I worked as a yoga teacher in a studio in a northern suburb of Tel Aviv. The studio occasionally sponsored workshops by various famous teachers, and this...

A tragic scarcity of puppy photos.

So yesterday at Rally (Rally!), I was reflecting on my mysterious project. And here’s part of a train of discoveries from the rabbit holes: Puppies! Apparently puppies sleep 90% of the day. For the first few weeks of being alive. NINETY PERCENT OF THE DAY....
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