New Seeds of Contemplation - Thomas Merton

Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

RIP Ozzy

#NoKings
#NoDictators

How to Start a School With Your Friends We've taught over 100 classes to over 1000 students 🤓

I love this idea! What would you teach? What would you want your friends to teach?

prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-sta...

What's the name of her band? Is any of their music available online?

My kids playing their new game, "Baby Jesus Bowling"

What game do my kids come up with on Good Friday, of all days?

"Baby Jesus Bowling"

The goal is to knock over all the Jesuses with a Hot Wheels car...

I didn't realize that "David Tennant Does a Podcast With" was back. I'll have to catch up!

Cortex
Earthkeepers
Everything Belongs
Good Job, Brain!
Guitar for Introverts
Life on the Fretboard
Liturgical Rebels
Luthier on Luthier
Ologies
omo
Rework
Sawbones
Sticky Notes
The Growing Edge
The Professional Creative
The Truth About Vintage Amps

I literally want my tax dollars to support national parks, science, education, conservation, mental health, and helping marginalized people in case that wasn’t clear.

#lent #spiritualdiscipline #liturgicalcalendar #christianity #spirituality

Unfortunately, it falls into a peculiar category of things where saying what it is kind of defeats the purpose, so it's a secret.

I wanted to come up with something actually meaningful to give up for Lent this year. I had such a visceral reaction to the first thing that came to mind that I literally said out loud, "I hate it." And that's when I knew what I was going to give up for Lent.

My next steps:
- build community
- make new connections
- strengthen existing friendships
- find time for quality time
- generosity focus

If you went to college:
1. Career goal?
2. Initial major?
3. Did you switch majors?
4. Current occupation?

1. No
2. Biomedical engineering
3. to Computer Science then Business Administration
4. Product Strategist

should have stuck with CS; I enjoyed it best and still ended up in software

The book Tales From the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien resting on a coffee table

#hbdjrrt

The Professor!

I can't wait till my MAGA relatives realize that everything they hate about recent changes to college football is just capitalism. They're detailing all of the issues with the system, and I'm like, "You're literally describing a free market and suggesting regulation."

A herron in the edge of the canal

Interesting structure next to the canal

New Year's Day walk

Scary things to hear from your 3 year old:
"You'll see."

Break free! Put the pedal to the floor! You don't have to wait till Saturday. Happy New Year!

6 books, Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster, Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer, Immortal Diamond by Richard Rohr, Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, and A Hidden Wholeness by Parker J. Palmer

I'm on a #journeyofmeaning...

What a wonderful podcast idea! Even if it was a sort of "limited series" or something, I'd love for it to happen.

I wrote The Ultimate Quest: A Geek's Guide to Church. It's a starter guide to Christianity from an Episcopal POV, in the style of a D&D manual. A seminary classmate drew incredible cartoons for it, so if you ever wanted to see an orc in a cotta, this book is for you!

As someone who moved to an Episcopal church shortly after this was published, I can confirm it's great. I came from a different (but similar) Christian denomination, but the way it's written seems like it would be approachable for people with no Christian background.

If y'all like this, have I got the podcast for you! itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/M...

Riven (remake) logo

ME: <finally playing new Riven, stops a spinning dome, it's not locked>

ME: Well, that's new.

ME: <goes inside>

ME: WELL, THAT'S NEW!

Thanks to @cyan.com @rwarzecha.bsky.social @karlj.bsky.social @gilespink.bsky.social @edoublea.bsky.social @shoomlah.bsky.social et al. I'm a curious kid again.

It does really feel like "the good old days" of early social media here right now, but if bsky keeps growing, commercial and political interest in it will, too. We have to work now to keep things civil later. @bsky.app

"Easy is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs."
- @jasonfried.bsky.social in Rework

Let's try to give people some grace; think of others complexly; put yourself in their shoes.

just a random reminder from my reading today...

#dftba #bekind #nerdfighteria

And most importantly, DON'T STOP TOMORROW. Voting is only a small part of the solution. It's one opportunity to tell the government what you want. But ultimately, it's up to all of us to actually get out and do the hard work of society.
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