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When Neither of the Captains Picking Their Teams Wanted You

November 6, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

It’s been another week of bad news. I got to watch the Phillies lose to the Diamond Backs in the last two games of the National League Championship Series and it had me re-living my own years playing baseball and, more soulfully, about what … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Being Proud of Your Work, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation, Introducing Yourself & Your Work Tagged With: empowerment, fans who never played, getting picked for the team, getting your shit together, how teams are selected, natural selection, rejection, sports fans

The Consolations of Boredom

October 9, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written about some of the better escapes I’ve been enjoying in posts about “shoe gaze” music and “gourmet cheeseburger” TV, but after having these experiences and telling others about them, I always … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: boredom, Justin McDaniel, reducing daily anxiety, relief from 24/7 news cycles, relief from information overload, Roman Signer, Wasserinstallation Series

The Best Gifts Are A Shared Experience

July 23, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

When you’ve lived in a place a long time, you accumulate.There are all kinds of reasons for valuing something enough that you’ve kept it around. But one downside of this was revealed to me last winter when relatively warm days were followed by a … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Proud of Your Work, Building Your Values into Your Work, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: art of passing along what we value, Bill Perkins, Die With Zero, generosity, gift giving, keeping, letter to dying loved one, tribute to loved one, you cant take it with you

A Communion With Our Trash 

July 4, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

I really don’t want anything more to worry about than I’m worrying about already.  But like you, deep in the reptilian part of my brain I’m alert to threats even though (much of the time) there’d be comfort in being oblivious to them … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself Tagged With: Chris Jordan photograph, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, gyre of plastic waste, Mark O.Connell, micro-plastics, plastic infused environments, plastic waste, plastics, The Ocean Clean-UP, Trash Islands currency

The Common Beat

June 4, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

I’ve been finding lately that the biggest obstacle to feeling the common beat is other people.It’s just easier to imagine sharing the rhythm and release—that universal correspondence environmentalists always wax-on about—when it’s all of … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: cross species cooperation, Darwin, Franklin Institute, Franklin Institute's Giant Heart, Kristin Ohlson, Robin Wall Kemmerer, Social Darvinism, The Book of Awakening, the common beat

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