Daily thoughts and reflections. Every garden requires water daily.
Music for Your 30’s
I now listen to music mainly while I work. This is a delicate and frustrating process. No music with words – obviously. No music that is too chaotic. No music that is too calm. Mainly, I listen to “lo-fi”, but this creates a hollow feeling – I never long for a particular lofi song. Which…
Seeing Like Your Heroes
Austin Kleon wrote in his book “Steal Like an Artist”, “You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes”. Kleon’s heroes here are artists and writers – but I thought instead of Superheroes. In modern times, it feels like “normal every day people heroes” (as opposed to Superheroes) are a…
Truth v. Quality
I have been thinking about a quote from Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, “Truth won, the Good lost, and that is why today we have so little difficulty accepting the reality of truth and so much difficulty accepting the reality of Quality, even though there is no more agreement in…
Who do you follow?
Who do you follow? On instagram, on twitter, in real life? Is this something you think about? They say when you are ready – a teacher will appear. I thought I was ready for a long time without running in Mr. Miagi. I have come to learn that everyone can teach you something. Everyone has…
The Thought Garden 