Exploring experience, perception, and meaning with a fresh, philosophical perspective. Join me as we question norms and embrace new ways of thinking.
Yep! She’s going to sing at the inauguration. Every time we have an inauguration somebody is complaining about who is showing up to perform. When a Democratic president is being inaugurated, the Republicans go unfollow those musicians. Now that a particularly divisive Republican president is being inaugurated, Carrie Underwood is getting her fair share of pushback and unfollows for wanting to perform at an inauguration.
Spirituality encourages us to spend time with ourselves daily. It encourages a daily practice of meditation, journaling, yoga, or going for a walk as a means of clearing our minds, connecting with ourselves and feeling better. I don’t meditate or do yoga. I’m not committed to journaling as a daily practice, but the writing I do daily for public consumption definitely serves as a means of understanding myself and my experience better.
The new year brings a scheduled opportunity to start again, create something new, and maybe change some things. As human beings, we love the idea of a new day, week, month, or year as a reason to create some sort of intentional change.
Often those changes are self-improvement related. How many new gym memberships are sold in time for a new year? How many people try to eat healthier? How many people try to quit smoking? There are dozens of these types of self-improvement ideas out there that people try all the time.
I’ve been away for quite a while working out my priorities by deciding what I actually wanted to do versus what I thought I needed to do. Where I got to was simple – I do not want to be a social media content creator. I kept trying to stuff myself into that box. I kept telling myself that I “needed” social media to be a writer. The consequence of it was that social media became the priority and I didn’t like it, so I walked away from the whole thing, even my writing. Now that I understand that I can do this completely without social media, I’m back to writing – just writing – because that’s what I want to do.
Trump’s re-election is a call for me to come forward.
I’ve hummed, hawed, started, and stopped more times than I can count. As my views got further and further from societal norms and I saw more and more clearly what was happening, I got more insecure about what I was saying and sharing.