Christmas Connections
We sent out 423 Christmas cards this year. Over the years, we have refined the process to make it manageable, and I have the entire procedure written out since we only do it once a year. Some of you getting this newsletter…
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Taking Time to See
I try to pay attention when the same thing ends up appearing in my life multiple times. About a week ago now, I read an article, don’t remember where, some outdoors-related organization. It was the editor, as I recall, talking about running…
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Small World 3
I have written before on the ‘small world’ phenomena (related to ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ also known as ‘Bacon’s Law’), in fact a couple of times, including some unqualified statistical analysis. This seems to happen to us on a fairly regular basis, and others have told…
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Margin of Attention
Two Saturday nights ago, I was reading John Mark Comer’s The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry in bed. I have read his previous book, Practicing the Way a couple of times, but this was my first time diving into his previous book. While his Elimination of Hurry book is…
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Level Up
Lately, I’ve been pondering the idea of fate and realizing that fate comes in all shapes and sizes. Seems to me we’re living our fate every day and on so many levels, it’s hard to fathom. It’s challenging to be…
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Survival of the Friendliest
In their book The Genius of Dogs, Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods explore the cognitive abilities of dogs, arguing that they have unique intelligence, based on their social skills. I haven’t finished the book yet, as we are listening to it on…
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Traditions
The winding down of the holidays doesn’t involve the same excitement as the run up to them. The ornaments are packed away, the tree will soon be on the curb for the Boy Scouts to cart away. But it’s a great time…
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The Person We See
Today is our anniversary… not our real anniversary, but our monthly observance that we call Anniversary Date Night, or ADN for short. I’ve written on various relationship hacks I’ve developed over the years, in Tips from an Old Married Guy, based on…
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Am I the Only One Who Can Do This?
I spent the last two weeks in Iceland, walking and eating and talking with a diverse group of very successful people. The creator of the trip, and the common connection to all of us, was John Mackey. He loves to get his…
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A Life That Matters
I turned 66 this week. Birthdays don’t normally cause any particular reflection… I’ve had a lot of them at this point, and I’ve got reflection built into my life, so birthdays aren’t a trigger for that. But this year, there was…
