Bull Durham is a pretty good movie.
Objectively good? I don’t know, but I think so. I watched it recently because…ummm…well that’s not important (though it’s a good story). You should watch it. Or, at least you should watch the sort of famous soliloquy delivered by Crash Davis. And you don’t have to do any work for that. Just a little click-click right here.
It’s been about 8 years or so since these fingers tapped away in this forum. I’ve thought about it. A lot. I let a lot get in the way during these last few years. So it goes.
You, dear reader, know that sometimes the first step is the toughest. Throughout these years, the world kept spinning, and now it wobbles on its axis as we all try to navigate an environment that seems far less certain and decidedly more complex. This, and what will follow, is far from a compass. I think we’re gonna wobble more.
So let’s wobble.
I’m lacing up my little finger sneakers to run along the keyboard and we’ll go with this for a lil bit and in so doing, my dilettante nature (know thyself excessively) will stumble around without too many cares. And if I’m lucky, really lucky, something that either you write or I write will have some permanence. Something will strike you as true. Something will make you or I bang the table and that will be good. Maybe wobble a little less. Maybe wobble a lil more.
You should do this (see below) too. Do it here or somewhere else. You’ll be surprised. We all will be surprised. This is probably best done once a decade. Maybe more. Don’t let everyone wonder. Don’t let those you care about wonder.
I believe…
- this is all one big straight line and the choices you think you’re making may not be choices at all
- less is a lot more now than when more was a lot more
- the 3 day kiss is hard to do, but if you’re gonna put effort somewhere, there are few better places
- you cannot get out of The Grateful Dead once you’re in
- you will not want to get out of The Grateful Dead once you’re in
- Twitter has created a world of day and week-long, 1st level thinking experts
- the obvious is based on experience, however flawed that experience may be and it can lead us down strange paths
- the technology behind the democratization of information (hello Meta) allows despots unparalleled advantages
- mountains are better than shores
- marijuana should be legal everywhere and we should start releasing people from prison who have been unjustly imprisoned for possession and minor levels of distribution
- we’re not going to like inflation one little bit
- being calm is a super-power
- running on trails and in nature feels freeing
- adult kids are magical
- air travel is broken and miserable – masks or no masks
- Bob Weir is a national treasure
- most everyone would benefit by reading Epsilon Theory and Doomberg
- multi-generational planning by leaders is designed to mask the short and medium-term mistakes of the leaders, providing cover for repression in the name of the long-term, greater good that none of us, nor our children will realize
- the music world will never be the same if John Mayer and Billy Strings appear on stage together
- baseball catch with your kids is what I imagine heaven to be
I also imagine this list will provide some ideas for me over the coming weeks and months. It’s strangely satisfying to be back here. I’ll come back again.
I hope you do, too. You do get to choose.
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