They were friendly enough, but friendly and helpful aren’t the same

On the other side of this question there is rarely an option. Because, ready or not, the next step begins: the lights go down, the doors open, the mask goes on. It’s time. It’s happening.

Making the other side smaller is a fool’s game. You don’t get better making the other side worse

What if what I am ’meant to be’ is where I choose to be?  What if ‘flow’ is found in the pursuit of service, rather than the pursuit of vocational zen?

As I think about that number, I don’t really get a sense of its meaning until I look at where it came from and where it’s going.

Adventures are, by definition, dangerous.  They are, as Hank Fortener reminds us, 'typically hazardous'.  We went for whimsy and got hazardous

f you see through everything then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.

The map orients, calibrates, contextualizes, but the work is in trudging through waist-high water and icky spiders.

But hard and worthwhile are not the same thing. Hard things have value. Hard things make us more valuable if we stick with them.