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THU Something happened today Another dream arrived. This one involved a box truck. The rear wheel nuts had been loosened. The truck was beginning to tip. In the dream, I was somehow holding it. I asked for a block of wood. Someone responded that the truck was too heavy. And I said, It’s light. Dream […]

WED Something happened today I kept thinking about how profoundly it matters when another person is willing to share a piece of what I am living through. Sometimes the help is practical, and sometimes it is nothing more complicated than taking my experience seriously. Both can change the weight of a day. I had begun […]

TUE Something happened today But when the stakes rise, curiosity has to change shape. What happens if I do this? What deadline applies? Who has authority? What happens if the first route fails? What am I risking by waiting? What am I risking by acting? The question behind the question becomes structural. What game am […]

MON Something happened today Cuddling with my wife has given me many wonderful moments of reassurance and closeness. I wouldn’t trade them away. Still, I noticed something interesting when I compared that comfort with a deeper change in how I understood my own stress and loneliness. The cuddle helped me feel better in the moment; […]

SUN Something happened today I had a dream. Two people were with me. One of them suggested a game where I could win a lot of money. The game involved two slices of bread. One was buttered on the hidden side. I had to choose. I chose the unbuttered slice. I lost that round. And […]

SAT Something happened today I began comparing stress to pollen in the air. One more grain may be almost nothing when the air is clear, but the same addition can be miserable when I am already overloaded. That helped me understand why an ordinary remark could sometimes provoke a reaction completely out of proportion to […]

FRI Something happened today The image of a world that stumbles stayed with me because it took away some of the demand for perfection. I had never needed the world to be flawless before I could admire a mountain, a tree or the improbable fact that anything is alive. Why should I require a finished, […]

THU Something happened today A little money left. A little time left. A little energy left. A backup route. Another contact. A document saved. A second income possibility. Nothing dramatic. But these things change the emotional weight of uncertainty. A closed road is very different when you know another road exists. That connected back to […]

WED Something happened today When a complicated problem affects people I care about, my first impulse can be to search for a way to help immediately. But I have learned how quickly a crisis becomes impossible to address when nobody can establish what happened, when it happened, what was paid or what was promised. I […]

TUE Something happened today One of the more practical threads running underneath all these discoveries was insurance. Not glamorous. Nobody puts a photograph of an insurance policy on an inspirational poster. But practical reality has an annoying habit of being where the important lessons live. I was delivering for DoorDash and Uber Eats. I was […]