Category: Reflections
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19 Years Ago
Today marked 19 years since Dad died. I spent much of the emotion during my uncle’s funeral a few weeks ago, but it helped being surrounded by 450 of some of the greatest coworkers a guy could ask for. Even though I only told one person, I appreciate y’all helping me stay social and making…
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Writer’s Block
39 and 8. Tonight, I sat down at the computer ready to publish a post that I started a week ago. “Hmm”, I thought to myself, “this topic isn’t as topical as it was. I’ve read this point since I thought it was an original idea.” Move to trash. I started going draft-by-draft seeing if…
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Zootopia
The entrance into Zootopia is a riff of the Hunger Games train through the districts. Then, the animals start going savage creating the Game within the city. All with someone whose identity is centered around white—President Snow and his white rose or Assistant Mayor Bellwether with her fleece as white as snow.
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The 5K Is The Ideal Race
On a recent business trip, I asked the concierge at my hotel for advice about where to go running. “Are you training for a marathon?” he asked. Nope. I’m racing 5Ks, I told him. He gave me a puzzled look… Source: The 5K, Not The Marathon, Is The Ideal Race I enjoy longer runs. Hell,…
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Orlando
There isn’t a word for the event overnight in Orlando. To call it terrorism, which it was, makes it seem like something far away, isolated, and a something abstract that politicians will use to further their own ends (which they will anyhow). To call it a mass shooting, which it was, lumps it into the…
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Congrats!
Congratulations to Class of 2016. Tonight, at The University of Texas at Austin, the annual commencement on the Main Mall culminates four, five, six, seven, maybe eight years of academic work in a festive ceremony, complete with fireworks. The Mall is ready.