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Not Needing to Explain Myself
I hope that you have been with a group of people before that you don’t have to explain yourself to. It’s not that you just sit there in silence without needing to communicate, but that the communication is free-flowing and unguarded. I have a group of friends that I have known since I was growing…
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It’s All Just So Beautiful
Today I drove across the Richmond Bridge and down 580 toward Oakland. It was late afternoon and I remembered a moment I shared with my daughter Sophia about 3 years ago in the car on that same freeway. I was driving and she was in the backseat. It was twilight, the time of day sometimes…
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Canoe Man
When I was 18, during the summer following my first year in college, my dad and I took a road trip from Santa Cruz, California to the East Coast. On the first leg, we drove 26 hours to Chicago, taking turns to sleep in the back seat of our 1984 Dodge Aries station wagon while…
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Sabbatical
Today I begin a 3-month sabbatical. Sabbatical, from sabbath or rest. Almost sounds like I’ll be hibernating for 90 days. But rather than sleeping like a wintering bear, the point is to step out of the the routines of work. To develop some new patterns of daily life. To rejuvenate, reinvent, to reinvigorate. But all…
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This content might not be for you
I’m just going to start writing. Not sure where it’s going to go. Not sure what I really have to say, but I have had this nagging feeling for many years now that I want to say out loud some pieces of the conversation within. That might sound strange to some people who know me.…
Almost a Conversation 