7PS: Run through the tape 🏁

7PS: Run through the tape 🏁

Read time: 1 minute, 346 words. A veteran editor was finishing his final week at a newspaper. Decades of deadlines were behind him. ​When the editor-in-chief asked him to oversee one last issue, he agreed, already half checked out. He skimmed instead of reading...
7PS: Turn the knob🚪

7PS: Turn the knob🚪

Read time: 1 minute, 300 words. ​ A man stands in front of a locked door he’s been trying to open for months. He studies the hinges. He inspects the grain of the wood. He wonders who built it and why. He sketches diagrams. Reads manuals. Asks others what they...
7PS: How to (kinda) disappear 👋🏽

7PS: How to (kinda) disappear 👋🏽

Read time: 1 minute, 284 words. ​ At the beginning of every year, I kind of disappear. ​ I delete social media & messenger apps on my phone. ​ I automate my social media postings. ​ I make the time so I can write, compose, produce. ​ I’m a big believer in...
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...