November 2014 - Houston, TX. Patio on Sabine.
November 23, 2014
Houston, TX
I’m kicked back on the patio wearing slippers I put on after spotting spiritual guru Gabby B wearing a similar pair in a Facebook post. Danielle LaPorte’s Desire
Map is on my lap and the first few pages have energized me to plot how I
want to feel instead of what I want
to do. Just ten minutes ago I was curled
up in bed on Sunday morning, reading on my iPhone Eric Barker’s weekly blog Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Today he features the work of Daniel Pink, author
of Drive:
The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us.
I discovered Pink’s Drive
last July on the bookshelf in the guest room of Sandra’s lakeside cottage
outside Toronto. I met Sandra in Beirut in
2009 and finally got to visit her this summer on my trip to the Montreal Jazz
Festival to see Charlie Musselwhite, whom I met during my days in Phuket a few months after Beirut. About a month ago my boss read Drive and it’s all he can talk about,
but I’m still into Simon Sinek’s work on inspiration.
July 2014 - Near Toronto. Sandra's Cottage on a Lake.
I’m swimming in a stew of stimuli.
I want to email my boss about Drive, which
makes me want to Facebook message Sandra about my boss, which makes me want to send a postcard
to Charlie about my trip to Canada. I also want to finish all these
books and maybe write about how these concepts apply at work.
Jun' 14 - Montreal Jazz Fest. Charlie Musselwhite & Ben Harper
Instead I do nothing: socially and intellectually overwhelmed.
The digital age disconnect.
Just when things were getting existentially interesting at
the end of my travels circa 2011, I ditched the blog because I’d been afflicted
with what I call Blogger Brain. I viewed my life through the lens of how I’d write about it in my blog. Kinda like how
nowadays people can’t stab a fork into dessert until they stop to Instagram it.
