A man sits with two wagons in the middle of the sidewalk. With the exception of a few plastic bags, the wagons are empty. What’s going on here?
A Man and Two Wagons Waiting on the Sidewalk
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T-shirts and Poetry Games
Brian and I were just in Chicago where I attended the Podcast Movement ’16 conference. I’m currently working on a QuOTeD episode that documents the extra day we spent in the Windy City after the conference. As we bummed around, with the exception of advertisements, I started to note the words people were wearing on t-shirts. I wondered if they could be strung together to either snap a sort of picture of the day or a specific time and place in the culture.
The t-shirts we saw were:
Continue reading “T-shirts and Poetry Games”Purpose vs. Happiness, Another Take
Sixteen years ago, a friend and I found ourselves talking about purpose. The following is a partial transcript from that conversation. I had just made a comment about how “knowing yourself” always seemed to be the promise of the next stage of life. When you’re thirty, this. When you’re forty that. When you’re fifty…
Incidentally, the original Question of the Day was “Tell me about a wake-up call that informs the way you live your life today.”
Continue reading “Purpose vs. Happiness, Another Take”Safety First, Revenge Second
“Safety First, Revenge Second”, Who wrote it? Why? Why there? What does it bring to mind?
Written on the sidewalk a few blocks from the house we read, “Safety 1st, Revenge 2nd”. A poetic threat? I imagined hooligans busting out the chalk.
