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Poking through the Curtain

Yesterday, Corrie (my black and white border collie) stood at the opening of two curtains. In that space separating two rooms, she poked her nose out and stood ...

Authenticity

We are the words that we eat what we say when we think we are right; yet others serve us a dish of bitter truth. How we respond when chewing it down shows, with...

Peach Blossoms

Blossoms promising Such sweetness come midsummer Hold crisp frost at bay...

An Eighth Spring Haiku

Timid oak clinging To last year will you disrobe And join us today?...

Bringing the Whole Toolkit to Problem-Solving

This past year, I've been thinking a lot about a problem-solving seminar I attended in 2017 or 2018. I was with a group of fellow managers from the Hesburgh Lib...

Magnolia

Erupting colors Resplendent magnolia So early this year...

Bluebird

I went a walking this evening, back into that space once field now meadow. With me: my partner and those two dogs of ours. In the hours before, rain and wind Bu...

Brown Thrasher

As dawn crescendos Lone brown thrasher serenades For whom do you sing?...

A Seventh Spring Haiku

Pressing seeds into Loamy soil as sky portends Coming thunderstorm...

A Sixth Spring Haiku

Fourteen deer cross field Finding days refuge as blue Heron seeks cold creek...

A Fifth Spring Haiku

Fluttering sparrows Your wings beat vernal rhythms Heralding new life...

A Fourth Spring Haiku

Cold winds bring frosty Snow reminding gentle buds Of delicate chance...

A Third Spring Haiku

Sun ascends each day Higher as falling blossoms touch Eager ground below...

A Second Spring Haiku

Night choir without Direction these tree frogs sing Spring's lush green anthem...

A Spring Haiku

Sparrow sings amongst Grey sticks with new buds bursting A new season's song...

Work Experiment the Second

At work leadership has oft repeated "You are in charge of your calendar." Yet, I hear laments about people scheduling over blocked off time. So, for the month o...

IPFS | Data Persistence For Web Content

What Is IPFS? IPFS is a distributed filesystem. It's basically a peer to peer, global storage engine that allows content to be stored and cached globally. Think...

Just bought my first work on the NFT Showroom

Here it is, the first NFT I bought on the NFT Showroom! Well, actually this is just a screengrab of the GIF that the NFT is associated with. I was one of the ve...

Corrie says Hi

This is Corrie; she's an 8.5 year old border collie with epilepsy. She loves playing frisbee, chomping on sticks, soaking up sun on a hilltop, or chilling in a ...

Today I Ran a Work Experiment

Earlier I wrote a blog post about Meetings as a Service. Today, I ran that experiment. It worked quite well. We had five people show up (8 invited). We spent th...