Tag: Days

Meditation on Bad Days

Today, I’ve been working on a project—one that I’ll soon post—but it requires so much more work. It has been a very draining and frustrating day, and this affected my mood greatly. I wasn’t the happy and motivated self I usually am. This was the first day I experienc...

Rainy Day, Chicago, With Caillebotte

It felt like passing by a friend at a party, pausing only long enough to say you’d circle back soon. I’d taken a taken a cheap flight from Washington, D.C., to see the “Remedios Varo: Science Fictions” show at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show included many paintings ...

7 Days of Links: 15 January ??? 21 January 2024

Aperture: Nabil Harb Seeks Mystery and Community in Central Florida | by Michael Adno Wallpaper: Marisol Mendez’s ‘Madre’ unpicks the woven threads of Bolivian womanhood | by Sofia De La Cruz Michel Lagarde: Construction d’une image Polka: La Po&e...

February 13th: The first of many astrologically concerning days ahead.

A month from today on February 13th, Mars and Pluto will join for the first time in Aquarius since the late 1700's. Mars has been and will continue to be very thematic over the next year as the North Node is currently doing its thing in Aries, a sign commonly associated with war because of it...

Know auspicious days for hair cutting

Do you know , cutting your hair on a favorable day can. make hairs healthier, thick and long. Maintaining preferred days for hair cut will not effect the energy flow in your body. On specific neutral day our body energies are balanced and do not have any positive or negative effect. - If you trim...

My first 30 days in VC

This time last year, I was 6 months pregnant and unbeknownst to me, about to embark on the most life changing year of my life: motherhood and the Included VC Fellowship. Until then, I had been running my consultancy, Clear Voice, helping startups create high-performing teams by optimi...

I???ve Slept On the Floor for 30 Days

Except it’s not. I’m not at all one of those people. I so easily give into temptation that the local Domino’s crew knows my order as soon as they hear my voice. I do try to take care of myself, but I’m often bested by the very visceral human desire to be comfortable and pampe...

My Seven Intense Days Of Silent Meditation, Mindful Eating, and Work

As you read this, I am on the first day of a seven-day Zen Buddhist Rohatsu Sesshin at the San Francisco Zen Center. Sesshins are daunting challenges, painful or beautiful depending on your state of mind. Forty other Zen students and I will not speak, use our smartphones, read, watch TV, listen t...

Counting Down Our Endless Numbered Days

We adopted Hazel from a fantastic Chicago shelter called PAWS when he was just four months old. My wife and I raised him from a baby. He was our baby. Our starter child. He had the entirety of our attention for several years before his adoptive sister, Lulu, arrived from Bogota (long story...