Think about the person you most love to talk with. Think about one of your conversations. Think about the range of topics. Think about the give and take, the pauses, the sense of presence. Got that picture? How many things did you ask for? How many things did you ask that person to do? What […]

You have them. So do I. We think we have huge projects, but we have 100 simple tasks. I was thinking about the other morning, working my way through a list of the things I want to get done. I started writing the big projects so that I could write the simple tasks that make […]

We were out for lunch. Nancy’s parents, brother, sister-in-law. We were chatting when two people were directed to a table close to ours. One of them, Donald, greeted the people in the kitchen. He greeted us. He sat down. From two tables away, he made eye contact with Nancy and said, “Where you from?” We […]

One of the things that I wanted to do this year was to ask a question every day. By that I mean, to ask someone about something. No agenda, just an information gathering, learn something kind of thing. “Hi Helen. What’s the best book you know about fishing?” “Hey Bernie. What’s the difference between magenta […]

I’ve been asking for insight about topics for the past couple days. “What should I write about at 300 this week?” I have several topics I’m thinking about, but I cannot find the theme, the thread, the topic. For example, I started thinking about a series of teachings about character. :  For the next 10 […]