Posts Tagged thinking

The Outer Limits of Comfort and the Value of Dissonance

Are you ready for a small slice of truth to close out your Thursday evening?  Good.  Me too. It’s hard to have original ideas when you are surrounded by people who all have the same experiences as you. – Jonathan Harris And there we have it.  If you are anything like me, you want to [...]

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On the Underrated Nature of Solitude

I decided to head to church last night at the chapel of a local college as a way to cap off my evening.  I used to do this in college quite a bit – 10 PM Mass on a Sunday evening was my favorite time to go.  Everything was just a little bit more quiet [...]

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Easy Morning Brain Expansion – No Stretching Required

About 3 months back I wrote a post entitled “The Quiet Drive” which detailed how I was looking to make different or better use of my daily morning commute to work. The reason behind this time of reflection was that it was proving to be a dedicated part of my every day life where I [...]

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“Blank” Something Different

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In thinking over my previous post on breaking a funk and reclaiming my rightful mojo, I knew some action needed to be taken outside of… well… just writing a post about it.  While writing is certainly a form of action, it’s often more the declaration of desire than the actual exercise of change and movement.  [...]

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Coloring Outside the Lines

Whenever I see a little kid doing some coloring, I always smile when I see what kind of wild creation they come up with in their coloring books.  It’s often a bunch of crazy colors, none of which match and rarely are they able to stay within the lines.  I know it was like this [...]

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The Quiet Drive

I have a list of things I wish I would do (or do more often), not unlike many people.  It’s a fairly simple list: Date Scarlett Johannsen; Demand recognition of my rightful claim to the Polish monarchy; and Devote more time to thinking and reflecting. The first one got screwed up by the allegedly dreamy [...]

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