Today marks the first day of preschool for our two-year-old! She went to a drop-in nursery before the pandemic, but I wonder if she remembers any of it. Isn’t it strange to realize that things that used to be so much a part of our daily routine aren’t anymore? It’s these realizations that make us …
Our five-year-old and two-year-old are right at that age where they are asking questions like, “But whose castle is the best?” Or “Who won the race?” Underlying these questions is their desire that they matter. They want to know what is required for being worthwhile. In our capitalistic, hustle-driven society it would be easy to …
A few days ago, Dr. Christena Cleveland posted this: Perfection is a white patriarchal tool designed to prevent us from true intimacy – with ourselves, others, and the Divine. Dr. Christena Cleveland Yes! Perfectionism is a hustle. A hustle designed to make us doubt our self-worth and spend all of our energy in a useless …
As if transitioning to being a cribless house wasn’t enough of a change in our household. This postcard arrived in the mail yesterday. I have to admit that I teared up a little bit reading the note from our five-year-old’s teacher welcoming him to Kindergarten. It’s always strange to me when you know something big …
Today was one of those days that you know comes as your children get older and yet it still sneaks up on you surprising you in all of the bigness and importantness of the day. Today, we became a crib-less house. We’ve done this before. In fact, when we moved into this house seven years …
The more I research and read about our hustle society, the more I realize how deeply entrenched it is into our daily lives. I hear myself reverting to hustle language when we are trying to find shoes and load up the car or are trying to do a quick grocery store run. Lying underneath this …
The morning light streams through the window. The coffee is hot. The house is quiet. Another day has begun. The mornings used to be predictable. Packing lunches. Finding shoes. Loading into the car, to go go go hustle from here to there. Now, the mornings are slower. There’s no rush. There’s no hustle. The new …
The self-help or self-improvement industry is a worth an estimated $11 billion. While it started with books, apps, calendars, morning routines, and numerous other outlets have stretched the industry to include and comment on every minute that you are awake so that you can have “your best life now.” The irony of course is that …
I’ve been a part of a lot of systems: being a student for thirteen years, studying at university, and teaching in the public school system. Systems and institutions develop characteristics of their own over time. It’s why so many entrepreneurs study and analyze culture and how it develops. They want to develop a different kind …
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In Katherine May’s beautiful book Wintering, she describes the process of preparing for a physical winter saying: I have spent most of my life trying to push winter away, having rarely had to truly feel its bite. She is speaking of the physical season but continues to elaborate that most of us do not like …
