THIS WEEK IN FOUND: This week we're looking at why the fatigue hits the second you're back at your desk. Plus your weekly reflection question and one step worth taking before Sunday ends. You just took a week off. Had the time of your life. Then day one back, the fatigue sets in, and you're already counting down to the weekend. If that's happened to you, you're not alone. But underneath it is something worth naming: a lack of contentment, a resistance to accepting where you're at right now....
15 days ago • 2 min read
THIS WEEK IN FOUND: Why doing less, on purpose, gets more handled than trying to move everything at once. Plus your weekly reflection question and one step worth taking before Sunday ends. Efficiency doesn't usually look like doing more. Most weeks, it looks like doing less, in the right order. I've been sitting with that this week. When there are ten things that all genuinely need attention, and none of them are going to wait forever, the instinct is to hold all ten in your head at once, so...
22 days ago • 1 min read
THIS WEEK IN FOUND: Why real growth starts with owning how you got here, not just where you are. Plus your weekly reflection question and one step worth taking before Sunday ends. She's twenty three, three weeks into her first real job, and she's sitting in her car in the parking lot before her shift, just breathing. Nobody trained her for this. Not the deadlines, not the criticism, not the feeling of being expected to just figure it out. She grew up with a plan for everything. A schedule for...
29 days ago • 1 min read
THIS WEEK IN FOUND: How the steadiest people in our lives become invisible precisely because they never ask us to look. Plus your weekly reflection question and one step worth taking before Sunday ends. 706 West Sharp. Saturday morning. The screen door closing behind me, and the heat already sitting on the sidewalk before I stepped into it. I knew exactly where I was going. Past the church, toward my aunt and uncle's place. There was a dollar waiting for my sister, my brother, and me. For a...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
THIS WEEK IN FOUND: What an unexpected Fourth of July storm has to say about where we actually keep our sense of celebration. Plus your weekly reflection question and one step worth taking before Sunday ends. Around here, the Fourth is a sure thing. Hot, bright, still. You plan around the sun, not the clouds. Yesterday the sky had other ideas. Storms rolled through most of the day, the kind we rarely see this time of year. Rain on the grills, weather apps open on every phone, plans quietly...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
THIS WEEK IN FOUND: The cost of independence looks different up close. Plus your weekly reflection question and one step worth taking before Sunday ends. There's a version of strength that looks like going it alone. You've probably worn it. I know I have. The quiet pride in figuring things out yourself, not asking, not reaching, just grinding through until something finally gives. It feels like discipline. From the outside it probably looks like it too. But at some point you start to notice...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
THIS WEEK IN FOUND: On the people who keep showing up for you, and what it means when the day you almost overlooked turns out to matter. Plus your weekly reflection question and one step worth taking before Sunday ends. To me it's a normal Sunday. Same coffee, same early hour, the same quiet I move through most mornings. My daughters are grown now. They have their own lives, their own full calendars, the kind of busy that makes a person hard to pin down. And still, today, they came by. They...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
THIS WEEK IN FOUND: A four-minute conversation with my new neighbor, and what it taught me about why we're all so tired of performing. Plus your weekly reflection question and one step worth taking before Sunday ends. I met one of my neighbors this week. Army vet, Vietnam. I'm Navy. We were standing around the way you do when someone new lands on the street, and somewhere in the first ten minutes he told me he used to drink and had to stop. I didn't reach for anything. I just said I used to...
2 months ago • 2 min read
THIS WEEK IN FOUND: What a missed week taught me about the balance I keep writing about. Plus your weekly reflection question and one step worth taking before Sunday ends. The box cutter was somewhere under three layers of packing tape and a duffle bag I hadn't touched in two days. My back hurt. And somewhere between hauling furniture and making sure all the utilities were on, I realized I'd missed last Sunday's send. Me and my son were doing all the heavy lifting. Things everywhere, nothing...
2 months ago • 2 min read