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A few words can be much better than none
I tend to err on the side of avoiding small talk with people that I run into. With some minor exceptions, I would go even further and say that I’m often antisocial around those new to me. It’s probably mostly to my detriment and something that I’ve been wondering about a lot recently. Maybe that’s…
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Thank you and I’m sorry
“Thank you” and “I’m sorry” are both complete sentences. Often, those two words are all that is needed. If I could add one more, it would be “Please.”
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The irrational other
Jerry Colonna’s book Reboot explores the emotional baggage we all carry and how we can each use a practice of self-inquiry to sort through it all. While it certainly contains a wealth of helpful approaches and ideas, one concept stuck out in particular for me: the concept of the Irrational Other.
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Do you have a user guide for you?
Maybe you should? “A User Guide for a Person creates clarity on how you work—what you value, how you look at problems, what your blind spots or areas of growth are, and how to build trust with you.”
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Intention is fine, but attachment is bad
“Look, man, I need more friends, and strong political opinions is not going to get me there. Love is going to get me there, tolerance is going to get me there. A sense of curiosity about other people is going to get me there, and strong political opinions is going to put me in the…
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Sensitive antennae
In the excellent book Unreasonable Hospitality, there is a chapter about managing relationships called “Relationships are simple. Simple is hard.” I saw the title of this chapter and jumped to it right away. 😃 So often, we confuse things by saying something is complicated when it’s really just hard.
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We’re all actors
In the short story Drive My Car, from the collection Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami, it is said that acting involves leaving who one was for a brief time, but that the self that one is returning to is never exactly the same as the self that one had left behind. Through the lens…
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Love and noodles (happy anniversary) ❤️
Today marks the seventh year of marriage for my wife and me. While we’ve been questioning some of our decisions over the past year, one thing we aren’t questioning is our decision to be together, side-by-side, even as things around us appear to be in mayhem.
Writing and drawings by Nick.
