Trauma is inherited. You and I are still processing the pains of our forebearers. The pogroms and famines and wars and alcoholism and infidelity and sexual trauma and paper-cuts and bear attacks and everything else that everyone that came before you experienced is being processed in you and me as we type and read this. […]
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I have learned so much this week in Prague. I of course reflect fondly on the Prague of 1993. That was pure magic. That can never happen again. Then again I can never be 23 again anyway. Life is change. We need to ensure that it is good-change most of the time. If you try
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I am now home. I have now had the opportunity to sleep in my own bed and hug my wife. This trip was different for me. I have been privileged to be able to travel abroad for over a month at a stretch probably nine times or so. The fact that I can’t say if
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Wow. Just wow. Probably my seventh or eighth time in Vienna and still wow. We used to be able to catch the 15:59 train out of Ingolstadt on a Friday afternoon for a long weekend in Vienna when we were living in Germany. What a privilege. The city remains one of my favorite places in
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So, this is the first new city for me on this trip. I began this trip with eleven days in Rome, a city I have been to at least a dozen times in my life, even once on a business trip. I love Rome. I love how insignificant I feel there….how impermanent. The city is
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Sitting here in Napoli Italy I can feel the ache in my left knee. That is something different about traveling at 53 as compared to 23. Some of the differences are in me and some in the world around me. Some things do not change (at least not much). I can’t say whether I
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So far I have listened to the 58 greatest albums of all time according to Rolling Stone. I learned a lot. I enjoyed nearly all of it, even the ones that I was unfamiliar with. Even the ones that I thought I would not like. I understand all music a little better now. We’re all
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I love splitting firewood. It is one of my favorite activities while at our cabin. I love waking up in a cold room and going over to the wood stove to light the (prebuilt) fire inside it. I always try to build a fire after the previous one has burned out and everything has cooled
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Remember the name of this long-running experiment, this practice, this dangerous monolog blasting into the ether, CheapZen. Be Careful of what you wish for! Caveat Emptor! Ok, the legal department is now satisfied. Yet another cool idea learned recently from hanging out with cool friends. I learned about Stoic Calendars,one is shown in the
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This is my word for 2024. Courage will be my North Star. I will risk, I will believe in myself, I will own my faults, I will sleep so much more deeply! I will fail, I will get back up and try again, I will succeed, and then fail three more times! I will treat
