Weekly Newsletter
Tag: brick by brick
Week #5, 2025
The thing about cycles is this. While inevitable and heroically beautiful, they are simultaneously tragic and sucky.
Week #4, 2025
Week #4 of 2025 has arrived. The polar vortex has sent super cold weather to the Great Plains. My hands hurt it's so cold. The polar vortex is cyclical. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? Cycles. Everything cycles. And yet, cycles don't exist in a vacuum. We are imprisoned in the cycles of: the universe, the earth, human history, our country, our culture, our politics, our family, etc... but we aren't imprisoned by those cycles. And while as individuals we can't remove ourselves from the cycles we find ourselves in, our actions do affect the trajectory and duration of the cycles. You do have agency. However, it is often not the agency that...
Week #49, 2024
Every person, every thing, every idea in our lives weighs on us in measure to how dear we hold it. Some are worth carrying forever, some only for a while, and some were never worth carrying.
Week #45, 2024
The point is in the struggle. The lessons are in the struggle. The wisdom is in the struggle.
Week #44, 2024
Strive to spend significantly less than what you make. The things that truly make you happy probably aren’t that expensive.
Week #43, 2024
Be the kind of person that it is easy to be friends with. Be generous, be helpful. Invest time in your friends, especially as you get past your 20's.
Week 41, 2024
Decide what is "most important", find a way to keep that "front of mind" and then DO IT.
Week 30, 2024
If there are people around you, and you want to make their lives better, help them move forward... and for yourself... make a plan and start marching down the path of your own creation.
April 21, 2024
When a person is set against adversity, where success is improbable, either as a team or an individual, and they rise to the occasion, it fills us up and makes us proud to be human... regardless of the skill level.