• verb yer nouns

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    Resolutions, intentions ,and SMART goals are super pops this time of year. In the past. I have lurved to take on goals, intentions, and words. I don’t think I stick with them, but last season’s potpourri of counseling, depresh, Full Focus planning, New Testament reading, and other miscellaneous -ings has led me to this kind…

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  • i never left

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    I didn’t leave – everyone else did! That is how I feel about a lot of things. But, it’s not true. I did leave a lot of things. I left myself in weird ways I don’t understand, for reasons I don’t understand. And because of that, I did leave a lot of things. I see…

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  • No-Buy Year Update

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    Earlier this year, I talked about my No-Buy Year. It was going well. I reported feeling slower, experiencing less decision fatigue, and emphasizing giving. I fell off the wagon because I forgot about No-Buy Year.  “Poppy got a little sloppy.” I’m of two minds on the subject of spending. On the one hand, No-Buy Year…

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  • being is the thing.

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    We are made in the image of God, but we are so stuck in one time, thinking about another time. Maybe we need to be more God-like in how we view ourselves in time, meaning everything about us is at once. This idea of progressing, of journeying, is helpful in being gracious to ourselves. But,…

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  • “It’s always open to you, if you want to take it.”

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    That sentence popped into my head, fully formed, on the drive to work. That sentence was unbidden and not in line with anything I was thinking about. I call it a synchronicity. Look, the LORD your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers…

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  • Right to Wrong

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    I’m regressing in chess big time. I’m like worse than average. What happened? One thing that happened is that instead of doing the things that helped me improve, I stopped doing all of it in favor of doing things that I KNOW aren’t good (exs. playing when tired, or playing short-time games). Why do I…

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  • Cash is King!

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    It gets a little harder to NOT spend a bunch of money when you have money. But it’s easier when you think about better uses of it. I think cash is a nice barrier because you can’t just zap it to whoever on the internet. Dave Ramsey was onto something with the “Cash is King,”…

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  • Buy-Free ’23

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    Thanks to a German artist I’ve only met on Mastadon, I discovered the “no-buy year” trend. I had never heard of this before, but my gf tells me it’s popular on The Tok and The Gram and what have you. [A quick note on socially conscious and ethical trends – they’re great! I’m glad people…

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  • 2023 reading plans

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    Un/fortunately, it’s common for me to read 60 – 85 books a year. In some ways this is great because of the breadth of experiences and learning I can get. In other ways, my reading life can become something of a chore. While I enjoy what I read, I sometimes feel the need to move…

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  • My Year of Analog©

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    A confluence of events led me to, weirdly, “personal knowledge management”, the zettlekasten, notecards, fediverse, braincalm, et seq. As a result, I’ve decided that 2023 will be even slower than 2022 (which was, in the last quarter, pleasantly slower than the preceding years). Why slow? Because things are still too fast, too crowded. There’s not…

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