With JOY IS NOW on break until March 20, I thought I'd use this time to adventure in my favorite realm of wide focus. I live by the act of wide focus and thinking from a place of wide focus is something I learned from my study of psychoanalysis. Even in science, exists the capacity to create space and potential in the abstract realm. And this assumed dichotomy between science and the abstract is one of my favorite things about the study of human emotion and behavior. With psychology there is always the opportunity to gather more information from a shift in perspective. Amen. I'm calling this adventure of wide focus the In Between. Let's go. NO THANKS...
Music makes my day. I LOVE all kinds. And there are few things that have gotten me through these last years better than music. Music is omnipotently available. Always there when you need it. Flavors the mood and allows you to try on the feelings. Music is miraculous. One of our favorite past times as of late has been discovering new music. With the swipe of a finger there are millions of vibes to lift you up and out of a funk. Or settle you in the feelings as the kids say. I LOVE it when my daughter leads the way of discovery and plays a song she heard here that leads to another song she heard there to...
It's likely that work looks a little different for you than it did two years ago. Even essential and frontline workers who have been tirelessly keeping our country going day in and day out, have seen changes changes. Whether it is change in uniform or dress, rules, location, or level of patience required, there has been a shift around work for many of us. And many of us through those changes have chosen to resign and find different work altogether. And collective trauma and grief will do that. There are few things that can move us to reflect and change like trauma and grief. They require a great reckoning. With so much attention being placed on work, where we...
JANA PARKER JANA PARKER gets shit done. And makes it all look so easy. But she's the first to tell you that it's not. There's no magic potion. JANA makes a really good plan and commits to it. That's her magic. I first met JANA in 2003. We were both graduate students at San Francisco State University, sharing a handful of classes between the Clinical Psychology and Educational Psychology program. And when I tell you these shared classes were sluggish, I mean I used to try and work the math for exactly how much those classes were costing me per minute. Whatever it was, felt like too much. As a group, we were beyond bored. My instinct when...
Friday morning I took a slam. It wasn't the first time I have been hurt skateboarding, but those times I fell. This was a SLAM. I was playing around in what is known as the big bowl. I've been progressing and working on a little bit of carving. Working my way across an incline, only sideways. More and more each time. It's been fun and stretching myself has really helped me understand how the physics of this ridiculous wooden rectangle on wheels work. I have to be so present when trying something new, one of the reasons I have come to love skateboarding. It is being. Not doing. When my mind wanders, I get tripped up and one way...
