Category: Thoughts
Lost in My Mind
Over the last two years, I feel as if I have become increasingly lost inside my head. When the pandemic first hit, I remember being determined not to lose the habits that made me feel successful. Yes, sure, I'd have to work from home and socialize via zoom and phone for a while. But I …
Behold a Self-Made Man
When I was a junior in high school, the computer that scheduled classes made a mistake and placed me, and one other girl, in an English class that was otherwise boys. To this day, I wonder whether the mistake was that the class was mostly boys, or that two girls had ended up in this …
This is Also a Thought
This morning, as I sat meditating, the teacher I was listening to suggested that if we found ourselves getting caught up in the stories in our head, we could label it “thinking” and let it go. Then she suggested that we could alternately say to ourselves, “This is a thought.” Suddenly my mind opened up. …
Maybe This is a Gen X Thing?
When I opened my meditation app this morning, I was greeted by a new icon in the upper right corner: a butterfly with a red dot. Assuming, correctly, that this was a notification of some kind, I tapped it and discovered that my meditation app is rebranding itself and redesigning itself, with new features. New …
Change+Management 