7PS: Seeds of 2025. Forests of 2026. 🌳

7PS: Seeds of 2025. Forests of 2026. 🌳

Read time: 1 minute, 307 words. Joshua Bell played violin in a Washington D.C. subway station.​Hardly anyone noticed.​Same music he plays in packed concert halls. As the new year begins, keep showing up.​Even if the crowd isn’t clapping yet.​The work still...
7PS: The value of shyness 🤐

7PS: The value of shyness 🤐

Read time: 1 minute, 324 words.​The holidays can bring anxiety. It’s a season of gatherings, where sociability is celebrated. But for some of us, the idea of attending events & meeting folks is overwhelming. In a world that values outgoing personalities,...
7PS: Want Peace? Start Here ☮️

7PS: Want Peace? Start Here ☮️

Read time: 1 minute, 300 words. In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot twice.​Two years later, he sat face to face with his shooter and forgave him.​Not to forget, but to also free himself of anger, pain.​Forgiveness cuts stress & heart attacks.​I’m not sure...
7PS: The Vast Inside 🌌

7PS: The Vast Inside 🌌

Read time: 1 minute, 348 words.​The holidays are here. This is when many of us start looking back at the year and thinking about what we want to change. In moments like this, I always come back to something Emerson wrote: “What lies within us dwarfs what lies...
7PS: Labels for Humanity 🏷️

7PS: Labels for Humanity 🏷️

Read time: 1 minute, 371 words. It’s getting harder to tell what’s real anymore.​AI “slop” content is everywhere. Fast, cheap, and soulless.​So I labeled my new holiday album clearly:​”Real field recordings. Captured on location.” I...
7PS: The wave will come 🌊

7PS: The wave will come 🌊

Read time: 1 minute, 308 words. I went to KFC the other day (don’t judge). ​There was a line wrapped around the airport gate. All for a recipe that was rejected more than 1,000 times before it found a home. Colonel Sanders didn’t catch the wave early in...
7PS: Start before you’re ready 🚀

7PS: Start before you’re ready 🚀

Read time: 1 minute, 303 words. At just 23, Aryabhata, India’s first great mathematician, published the Aryabhatiya in 499 CE.​It wasn’t flawless, yet it reshaped mathematics and astronomy for centuries.​If he had waited for perfection, the world might...
7PS: Ripen, Then Release 🍁

7PS: Ripen, Then Release 🍁

Read time: 1 minute, 393 words. A farmer once told his grandson,​”You plant in spring, water in summer, and harvest in autumn. ​But you never tug a mango down. When it’s ready, it falls.” As the leaves change and the season turns, October reminds...