Idylls and Rambles

20 Questions About Childhood for Your AI Autobiography

What was childhood like for you? What was your family like? What was your first memory?

May 15 •

15 Questions to Kickstart Your AI Autobiography

One facet of AI does excite me — utilizing it to record our lives for our own benefit and for posterity

Apr 24 •

Bonsai is the Most Misunderstood Art

Bonsai Instructor Russ Stevens talk patience, impermanence, and caring for trees that will hopefully outlive us

Apr 10 •

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60 Quotes on Walking

Poetry, song, scripture, and literature provoke contemplation of the paths of life -- and spur putting one foot in front of the other

Feb 13 •

There's No Failure in Bonsai Unless You Kill a Tree – and Don't Get Another One

A Conversation on Patience and Impermanence With Bonsai Instructor Russ Stevens

Aug 15, 2024 •

A Moment of Pause and Stillness

My annual invitation to slow down, to quiet yourself

Aug 8, 2024 •

People Who Succeed When No One Expects Them To

Henry Oliver examines the lives, lessons and obsessions of "late bloomers"

Jul 2, 2024 •

The Inputs Series

Part 4: Substacks

Jun 13, 2024 •

The Inputs Series

Part 3: Online Journals and Newsletters (Except Substacks)

Jun 7, 2024 •

The Inputs Series

Part 2: Printed Journals and Magazines

May 30, 2024 •

The Inputs Series

Part 1: Podcasts

May 17, 2024 •

Become What We Are

Let us leave what we were

May 9, 2024 •

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