It’s one of life’s truisms that we may wish for prestige, power and money, but none matter without your health. “The first wealth is health” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.” I don’t think it is self flattering to admit I have got some amount of respect, influence and capital. And yet every spare dollar and moment […]
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Day 440 and Twitchy
Last night I had a poor night of sleep. My body was just all kinds of weird. A muscle spasm thing kept me awake. I tried magnesium (it’s a natural muscle relaxant), several rounds of Theragun routines, a few stretches, and finally actual muscle relaxers. Nothing stopped the weird twitching. It was 2am in Germany […]
I am trying to imagine my life being very different. If I step away from some of the areas where I have visibility what changes. I am imagining a phase change of assumptions about not only my own life but life as it goes forward. It’s the topic we’ve all been dancing around for years […]
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Day 1756 and Oops I Did It Again
Oh baby baby! So it seems as if, in my infinite wisdom, I did not pay enough attention to the early warning signs from my Whoop biometrics and I did indeed need to worry about the fun and games of a subcutaneous tissue infection. I swear that this IL-17 inhibitor drives me nuts. Despite its […]
As I often do on transcontinental travel days, I wrote my post for the day first thing in the morning. I wasn’t sure how the journey would go so I thought “let’s post this early” in case things get hairy. And boy did it. I was leaving Europe just as Poland closed its airspace after […]
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Day 1661 and Please Let This Be Over Soon
I am hanging onto my sanity by a thread as I round the corner of a surgery I did not expect. Well, I’m eight days out from it, so slightly more than a week. I’m hoping I start to feel gets better soon. It’s my first day without antibiotics and I am already certain I […]
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Day 621 and Pain’s Anxiety
Before I was diagnosed with my spinal condition ankylosing spondylitis, I didn’t really understand that I was in pain. I know that sounds weird, but I just knows I felt like shit. I hadn’t yet pinpoint the origins of the crisis in my own body. I was a stranger to myself. Back then getting a […]
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Day 278 and Overshooting
I have been feeling terrific. That means I’ve been able to do a lot more. But it’s also one of my tendencies to overshoot my capacity. Workaholism, like any addiction, is something I’ll have for the rest of my life. Being in recovery for it means recognizing I could relapse. I feel a bit of […]
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Day 112 and Unknowability
Human minds seem to prefer predictably. The back brain craves knowing what is coming even as our flighty consciousness seeks novelty. Talk about a tension that sucks. We’ve all seem just now much this is a recipe for misery when you live in a world with no predictability but easy access to low stakes novelty […]