Transitions – Redux
I wrote recently of my recent transition to my almost dream job. My amazing friend Johanna humorously also got me a pony. I’m only about a month in full time, two by the calendar. It still feels like the right decision. …
Category: Personal Development
Activation Energy and Inertia
What does it take to change? I think often of the tensions between inertia and activation energy. To be clear, my inner science geek is speaking: Inertia: Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its …
Transitions
I spent most of the last year BETWEEN. I knew that the job that I had was neither what I was supposed to be doing nor where I was supposed to be doing it. So, I made some hard choices, …
Integrity
A few weeks ago a friend of mine, Andrew Hartman, was among the final three candidates nominated to be appointed as a district judge here in Colorado. The final decision among the three candidates was to be made by Colorado …
Caught between Pandering and Bridge Burning
Once upon a time I lived my life in black and white. I burned bridges all of the time – metaphorically not literally. My life was simple and yet not always easy. For the longest time I thought that the …
Hand Gun One
I spent the day yesterday at the Firing Line in Aurora, CO. I’ve been to their shooting range a few times over the past few years with a member, but remain a novice. I am a lot more comfortable shooting …
Icarus Rising
Why did Icarus need to fall? I remember translating (from the Latin) the myth of Icarus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a young girl. It seemed natural and obvious that Icarus should fall. What hubris! How dare he try to fly so high? …
Choices, Chances, Changes
A few months ago, someone important to me sent me a quote without comment: “There are three C’s in life: CHOICES, CHANCES, & CHANGES. You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change.” I promptly printed …
Transparency
How much is too much? I came of age reading Robert Heinlein. This fostered in me an innate understanding of and respect for those people who choose to live off the grid, on cash, and resist a microchipped, google earth mapped, …
90 days
What would you do with 90 days? I am 30+ days into a 90 day “transition” out of my current job. I can remember like it was yesterday my disappointment in thinking that I would not get this job, my …