Category: deeper thoughts

  • Monday Zen: Simplification & Leaving Spaces

    Monday Zen: Simplification & Leaving Spaces

    Cultivating a less-complicated life and living the cast iron philosophy shouldn’t need to be an active, busy pursuit towards simplification. How would that even make sense, after all? I opened up my email inbox this morning to a corporate reminder that I had excess vacation to use up. Somewhere in a human resources database I

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  • Meta Monday & the Attack of the Creative Heart

    Meta Monday & the Attack of the Creative Heart

    I have a luxury that, I would guess, many people who post stuff online don’t have. I don’t need to generate an income from this. I’m lucky. I can blog without ads. I can post without sponsored content. Dabble in new media without penalty for failure. I can pay my hosting bills with my real

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  • One Million

    Call it civic pride or call it mathematical curiosity, either way the latest census data for Canada was released this week and my city officially recorded one million residents for the first time in history. One million. That’s a lot of neighbours, most of whom I’ll probably never ever meet. A great big crowd, busy

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  • Better

    One word that sums up your theme for 2022 Better. Just… better. Better days. Better minutes. Better hopes. Better self. Better efforts. Better me. Better you. Better world. Better everything. Better. Happy New Year! See you in 2022.

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  • Groundhog

    One of my favourite films stars Bill Murray as a weatherman who, while visiting a small town to report on the festivities taking place to celebrate groundhog day finds himself trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of reliving the same day over and over and over again. He wakes up on the second of February

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