Sporadically Brian
3/5/18: In Service
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ------ Mahatma Gandhi ------------------------------------ One of the first pickups of my shift yesterday was for a young man who uses [...]
3/4/18: Predators and Scammers (Part two, Not in Kansas Anymore)
It’s odd to me now to think that I just accepted leaving Rochester so quickly, getting into a car not knowing where I was going until I was so far from home. ----------------------------------- After orientation [...]
3/3/18: Predators and Scammers (Part one, Anywhere but Here!)
Although the masters make the rules For the wise men and the fools I got nothing, Ma, to live up to — Bob Dylan —————————————– A year on East Center St. was obviously enough for [...]
2/24/18: Unconsciously Choosing Paradox (Part Seven, The Monkey in my Imagined China Shop of Unsubstantiated Fears)
And so, to me, this idea of true belonging is a type of belonging that never requires us to be inauthentic or change who we are, but a type of belonging that demands who we [...]
2/22/18: Unconsciously Choosing Paradox (Part Six, Where Angels Fear to Tread #3)
Human skin… the largest organ of our body, is both internal and external. It’s an interactive network providing us with a conduit for the physical, sensory and communicative transmission of data between our essential inside [...]
2/21/18: Unconsciously Choosing Paradox (Part Six, Where Angels Fear to Tread #2)
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. ------ Brené Brown ----------------------------------------- I've been looking at the "thick skin" metaphor and how that pertains to my take on the general topic of vulnerability. Googling [...]