July 2021

So continuing with these metaphors for life, another one is the idea of architecture. I’ve talked about building your life like it’s a house, and this is another comment on that. When we build something, it’s not the building itself that matters. It’s the function of the building. It’s what it’s doing, what it’s serving. […]

I love metaphors for life. Sailing a ship. Running a country. And one that seems to work really well is gardening. Having a garden. There’s so many ways in which that seems to capture a lot of what’s going on with life. This idea of we have this space and it’s somewhere in the middle

Fighting for peace. As soon as I hear that, I think of old-time propaganda. Trying to declare war while still seeming like the good guy, you can say “We’re fighting this war because we want peace, and the other guys, they’re the ones that want war, so we have to beat them so we can

Walking is the new sitting. Now, this may be confusing, because we’ve all heard that sitting is the new smoking. So I’m not saying that walking is the new smoking. I’m thinking about meditation. I think about that classic image, when we think of meditation, we think of sitting in a lotus position, cross-legged position,