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How to Put Guests at Ease

When you’re trying too hard to make other people feel comfortable, they feel uncomfortable. Instead of stressing about making them feel comfortable, you just have to feel comfortable yourself and then, given relatively normal circumstances, they will ease into your comfort bubble. Just a thought as I’m talking to me as she breast feeds her…
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Daily Blog #11

A daily practice is important, but it’s best to do it first thing. That way it starts your day off with a win — with an energy boost. If you put it off, your daily practice becomes another daily “to-do.” To-do’s are an energy drain that you have to squeeze in before you can end…
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The Backseat

The backseat was scary. He was used to driving, or at least riding shotgun. He wasn’t scared they would lose control, or even that they’d leave him at a gas station one day when he went in for a soda. (At least that would force his hand.) No, what scared him was that when they made…
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Be Where Now?

“He kept saying, ‘Be Here Now’ and when I asked, ‘Be where now?’ He kept giving me those stupid answers like, ‘The only place you can be, here and now.’ I bought his book and everything. Nothing! It pisses me off, because I’m genuinely putting in a lot of effort to become enlightened and stuff.’…
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Seeding Digital Flowers

The flower grows on your wrist, inside your smart watch. The point is to keep the flower alive by keeping it in the sunshine. Sunshine is created by happy thoughts. Happy thoughts are induced through mediation, which is tracked through an EEG headband, and exercise, which is tracked through the smart watch itself. (Steps, calories,…
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How to Get Unstuck

The first thing to do is chill out. You need to overcome the panic so that you can deal with the problem. Slow your breathing, plan your exit. If you flail and grab you’ll break all of the ice around you, making an escape that much more difficult. Once you find your calm, it’s time…
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The Girl & The Scalpel

She started with her face. That’s where she felt it most. Well, maybe, but it was too risky to cut into her chest. The cage would sit an inch behind her skin like an internal cast. The cage was meant to hold back the pressure. She couldn’t take any more of the pressure. Desire would…
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