Welcome in, 2022. The last couple of years have been a gentle spiral down, and I find myself finally rising up out of the mud to unfurl my lotus petals. In 2021, I focused on measuring all writing – not …
LEVEL-UP! The Essence of Green – Apr – Sep 2021
“The summer air is hot and still, the afternoon hazy; crickets call relentlessly from among the brown grasses, and ears of corn are the same heavy, burnished gold as the late-day sun. Hawks circle in the blue-white sky overhead, and …
Book Reviews of 2021 :: Part I
Welcome to my book reviews of 2021. I just about made it to 12 books last year, and in January I began a new dayjob and training course (because I really need more qualifications) which has limited how much reading …
LEVEL-UP! The Essence of Green – Feb + Mar 2021
“Anyone can love a thing ‘because’. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something ‘despite’: to know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” – Patrick Rothfuss February was interesting. We …
LEVEL-UP! The Essence of Green – January 2021
“Winter fights valiantly to hold the land. The earth and the sky are grey, leaden, and heavy with the cold. But here and there, scattered like jewels in the sodden grass, the first slender tips of daffodils start up toward the growing Sun. Something in us stirs …
The Essence of Green for 2020-2021 Transition
Farewell, 2020. Part of me want’s to leave that there and just jump to 2021, but 2020 was a big year for my personal development – mostly in the last 3 months of the year, but it all counts. Also, …