Tag: friends

  • Seeing Other…..

    Seeing Other…..

    …..is not something that can be easily done. We easily assume that seeing another is something that we can all do, but I don’t think you can necessarily see another until you have an established and mature sense of identity and self. I was working on a writing project –…

  • More Insight into a New Way of Being

    More Insight into a New Way of Being

    I don’t write long posts.  I wrote about a New Way of Being.  As I write this – we are still in that “quarantine and starting to re-open” phase. I keep the posts short and just work out the info – but I don’t spend much time explaining. My hope…

  • Vulnerable in Creativity and Explore your Insecurities

    Vulnerable in Creativity and Explore your Insecurities

    I was at TEDxAFC with my good friends Daniel Araujo and Brent Oglesby.  It was my frist time going to one of these events with friends.  I normally go by myself so it was nice to proces with people that I knew. Of all the things that I heard today…

  • Twitter Validation

    Twitter Validation

    Evidently, there is this Twitter service that you can use that will validate whether a person is following you or some bot is following you.  The bot can’t navigate the validation service I guess.  So this service is suppose to validate the people that I follow or are following me.…

  • That One Moment

    That One Moment

    There is That One Moment – that one moment that makes the difference between the thing that’s bringing you down and being able to work through it to get you to the next level. There is That One Moment – that one moment where you are lonely – so lonely…

  • No Friends

    No Friends

    So I wrote a post yesterday about The Friends I Eat With, and what I mean by that.   I have friends.  I make friends fairly easily.  It’s part of my personality.  Maybe I’m just not that scary. I saw something tonight – someone else’s post of something – that…

  • Friends I Eat With

    Friends I Eat With

    …….. are the really, really good friends. Have you ever heard of Dunbar’s Number?  Here’s another post about it. Friends that I eat with are friends.  We have all sorts of friends on Facebook and Twitter.  Thousands of friends – thousands of followers.  Do we even know what a friend…

  • Vanity Metrics and Identity

    Vanity Metrics and Identity

    Sometimes we can build our identity on metrics that really don’t matter.  Well, maybe they matter, but they’re only good for your vanity. I was listening to a podcast on marketing and they were talking about the vanity metrics that people follow when they check out the stats on their…

  • Phone Numbers

    Phone Numbers

    Phone numbers used to be an identity marker.  Growing up, I knew everyone’s phone number.  I had it all memorized.  I knew all of our numbers.  I knew all of my aunt’s and uncle’s numbers.  I knew phone numbers of my friends.  If I called you I had your number…

  • To Not Care What People Think

    To Not Care What People Think

    ……is not an easy thing to do. But just like anything else, the more you do, the better you become at it.  It’s a pretty natural thing to have opinions about others so it’s natural that people might have opinions about you.  But to get to the point where you…

  • Insecure Friends

    Insecure Friends

    If you have them, still be a friend.  Just know that if you intimidate them too much, they’ll stab you in the back.  We all have them. Help them to be more secure.  Encourage them if you need to.  They’ll need it.  They’ll need more attention than you can give.…

  • A Season of Life

    A Season of Life

    There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.  Ecc 3:1 I had dinner with a friend from college last night.  It was great to catch up and talk about a previous season of life that we had shared.  It was great to catch up…