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Bottle of Water - A Story of Forgotten Trauma

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 17:12:58 +0000

...our minds tend to be like a glass of pond water. Over time the sit will settle to the bottom of the glass... we forget how much junk is laying on the bottom.

First Days in Colombia

Sat, 15 Jan 2022 01:00:48 +0000

Walking to work. My office for the next few weeks is a co-working space in Laureles, Medellín. The sky is blue and sunlight cuts between the branches that line the old streets. I’m excited about this new level of my adventure. This is my first international nomad experience. My commute is full of savoring the new environment after months of anticipation.

The newness of Colombia is as enriching as it is complicated. I quickly notice my lack of familiarity with basics of life. Social strategies my autopilot would have utilize are worthless. Simple things, like what the currency looks like, what ATMs will allow me to withdraw money, or where to find groceries have become time consuming uses of my mental energy. To top it off, I still know very little of the language.

Things are changing.

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:44:47 +0000

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Fatiga por Compasión

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:30:24 +0000

A man walks in front of me. Blocking my path forward, his intent to deliver his message is clear. Wearing no shirt, his skin is tanned and wrinkled from the many months and years he’s spent in the sun. Covered in dirt, likely from going without a shower for days from sleeping in the street. His posture and stature is bent forward as if he could collapse any moment. He motions an empty hand to his mouth, and in English he opens his mouth with the few teeth he has left to say one word,

First Night in Ometepe, Nicaragua

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 19:52:05 +0000

It’s barely 8pm, but here I am, laying in bed trying to sleep. I’m covered in sweat, occasionally being bitten by unidentified insects. The air, so thick with heat, makes it challenging to breath.

My bed for the night is in a guestroom in the back of a typical family home in Moyogalpa, Nicaragua. This tiny town sits on the west side of an island formed by two volcanos in the Lake of Nicaragua. The island is called Ometepe, which in Nahuatl means “Two Mountains”.

I quit my job today

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 20:39:00 +0000

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That night for dinner in Kansas City

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:59:02 +0000

One night in Kansas City, I’d made a trip to a restaurant on the way back home to pick up dinner. I parked in the parking lot and walked in to get my order. As I returned to my car with my acquired meal I got into my drivers seat.

As I was getting in and as I reach to put on my seat belt, I experienced an odd event occuing in the corner of my eye. I observed what felt like my car rolling forward.

Some Farm Team for California - A story of baseball and recognizing growth

Sat, 22 May 2021 19:44:32 +0000

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Hawaii Island Explored

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 19:55:40 +0000

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Ohana — Hawaii Teaches Me About Community

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:38:52 +0000

Lack of community and contentment has been my greatest challenge over the past year. While the pandemic fueled a lot of this, deciding to not renew my SF lease and nomad with a vague plan didn’t help either.

This road can be pretty lonely. Meeting amazing people over and over helps. You do develop rapport deeply and quickly. Yet, you’re constantly saying goodbye, crashing off the high. It’s the price for sharing a piece of life with so many people who are inspiring, highly motivated, and full of energy. Then the moments go by where there are few people to fill the void. Finding moments where your only retreat is what stillness you can find in the mind.

Keanu Reeves’s Perfect Answer

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:14:00 +0000

I spent months thinking about this clip. Initially I was taken back by how great a response KR gives. Overtime I became obsessed. Why was this answer so profound to me. To the Audience. To Stephen Colbert. Why after many weeks of replaying it in my head do I still find myself re-watching. Every time finding a new sense of peace.

Watch this Short clip:

https://youtu.be/7c2olMFEhK8

The audience and even Colbert are left speechless. Keanu’s response was profoundly sobering, softly dark in its reality. Comforting, and then humorous again. It was like we spent a long time on a trip that lasted a few seconds. He manages to place the focus not on his own opinion of what we will experience upon death, but the experience of those who stay alive.

Things Repurposed for the Universe — A Spiritual Lesson of Minimalism

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 02:20:00 +0000

As a budding digital nomad traveler, who’s closing in on their last two weeks as a full time San Franciscan. I’m having to part with most of my things. Many of these things are obvious like extra shoes, extra blankets, furniture. What catches you off guard are the things you absently assumed would always be there.

My brother hand painted this meditating alien on a canvas as a Christmas gift in 2012. I had it on my wall in a few places in Kansas City, and once I left KC it joined an exclusive seat with a few other items on the trip to San Francisco. Over the years it’s been a staple on my walls and brought me a bit of peace. Reminding me to relax and not take life so seriously.

Writing from my Phone

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 04:20:29 +0000

Eventually you have a pile of clever and witty things. You did a bunch of cool shit and now you get go on an on about cool the shit you did was. Not only that, but you get to buy over priced coffee and sit at table in a busy place in a busy city while busy people busy around busy town.

Clearly sarcastic, but also sounds fun. When I first did WP the mobile structure was a little rickety if not absent. Today I’m able to comfortably type out an article via my phone. Sure its not as soothing or fast as a keyboard. But lately I’ve been typing out a lot of my ideas to trello anyway. I could easily see me writing articles on the fly from my phone.

Back to WordPress

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 03:28:07 +0000

My history with WordPress stretches over a decade. Every time I revisit, it becomes more and more streamlined. Much of that is the advancement in the technology but also my own skill set and understanding.

Recently I’ve been working a lot with AWS architecture. I leaned a bit into those skills to eliminate a lot of the overhead I used to have with developing a LAMP stack server to host the WordPress app.