Blog posts by topic
- achievement
- advice
- anxiety
- assumptions
- attention
- balance
- beginning
- change
- communication
- community
- connection
- curiosity
- discipline
- effort
- empathy
- ending
- expectations
- experience
- fear
- freedom
- grief
- growth
- health
- hope
- impact
- journey
- knowledge
- lighthouse
- love
- masculinity
- mindfulness
- mother
- motivation
- motive
- no hacks
- pay attention
- peace
- persistence
- presence
- relationships
- resource
- seasons
- self awareness
- self-awareness
- shadow self
- success
- time
- toughness
- uncertainty
- values
On stubbornness
“Grinding through everything you start is just stubbornness disguised as self-discipline.” - Mark Manson
Picture of artwork by Sage Barnes.
On lighthouses
“If you cannot change the course of a storm, be the lighthouse.” ― Ronn Daigle
On rejection
“Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that their sacrifices be fearless and without blemish, and I wonder whether, whoever or whatever took Peter and Jamie away, it decided I wasn't good enough.” -Tana French, In the Woods
On progress
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” ― Alan Turing
On success
A short post mostly comprised of a passage from Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.
On community
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” – Goethe
On purpose
A little about the challenge my family is facing and what I plan to do for myself to help navigate through this time.
On anxiety
“We’re wired to seek safety, connection, and meaning. Grief disrupts all three.” - Claire Bidwell Smith
On clinging
“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.” - Jack Kerouac, On the Road