April 2024

People, You Know, Like Me, and...

I don’t understand the image quote above out of context.  So, what is the context summed up.  Teens enjoy how social media algorithms show them content that feels personalized and reflects who they are. The algorithms use phrases like “for you” to suggest that the content is not just for them but also about them,…

It Is Sunday Morning, I am...

  It is Sunday morning.  I am doing my daily practice which includes exertions of various kinds.  My latest exercise is to take a big, green wheelbarrow to the field you see above (aka, the Cathedral or the Finger Field) and load it with bark chips.  Then I walk backwards to the house, an uphill…

Stories Are Ubiquitous and in the Moment

  I use a tool from Matthew Dicks’ book, Storyworthy, that helps me realize something.  It is a realization tool, something that takes the quotidien world and makes it into a special something, something ‘storyworthy’.  And it turns out that almost everything is storyworthy.  Why? Dicks has an answer. Here’s the thing about that story:…