Today I took my three dogs to the park, like I always do. It’s a fully enclosed park with a train track on one side, and creeks on two others. The only homes are the ones along the dead end street that dumps into the entrance of the park. I’ve been coming here for 10 years with my dogs, and 99% of the time, the park is completely empty but for us. When there are people, we respectfully pass by…
This afternoon I was running a disc utility on a Mac Mini when the verify disc function returned an error stating that I needed to run disc utility from the machine’s installation disc because the hard drive could be failing. I didn’t panic. I ran a time machine backup, inserted the disc and held down the ‘c’ key during restart. But rather than go through what looked like the process of reinstalling OS X (the machine had been upgraded to…
20 years ago, historic catastrophes like the flooding in Queensland earlier this year may have taken days to reach us. But in the age of global interrelatedness, and thanks to digital connectivity, the events in Queensland played out in real time for the rest of us to watch. And feel. But the impact of this connectivity, especially via social media, played a much larger role on the ground in Queensland than most of us realized. I really enjoyed this presentaiton…
Sometimes all we can do is keep our noses down and block out the chaos of the world. It’s perfectly fine to get wrapped up in our daily routines of life and work. It’s ok to pursue the superficial things that we believe will make us happy. We can’t possibly expect to stop what we’re doing and focus on the myriad of strife scattered across the globe. And we damn sure can’t relate. Maybe if they give us a ‘Text…
I recently discovered that someone I’d been following here for a couple of years, unfollowed me. No, it’s not the first time this has happened (nor will it be the last). And yes, I keep tabs on this stuff every once in a while, as I take who I follow fairly personally. I like to think of the people who I routinely engage with here as friends. Or, as close to friends as you can get without physically meeting. Anyway…
I’m sorry to have to break this to you, but here’s how happiness works – you get it when you’re ready for it. And when you do experience the epiphany, you then realize how easy it is to reach up and grab hold of happiness whenever you desire it. But then, self-pity is never the same again, of course – because you’ll see that you only have yourself to blame for feeling like shit. It’s a trade off. *** Jim…
