I wasn’t sure what to expect but I really enjoyed watching The Two Popes tonight. Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce were great in it. 🍿

I stopped by the Winter Stoke Block Party tonight. Everyone is stoked and ready for ski season so why not close off some streets, have some food trucks, beer gardens, vendor booths, and live music stages set up to properly celebrate together?

Our cultural attachment to our phones, she says, is paradoxically both destroying our ability to be bored, and preventing us from ever being truly entertained.

“We’re trying to swipe and scroll the boredom away, but in doing that, we’re actually making ourselves more prone to boredom, because every time we get our phone out we’re not allowing our mind to wander and to solve our own boredom problems,” Mann says, adding that people can become addicted to the constant dopamine hit of new and novel content that phones provide. “Our tolerance for boredom just changes completely, and we need more and more to stop being bored.”

A quote from Sandi Mann, a senior psychology lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire in the U.K. as well as the author of The Upside of Downtime: Why Boredom Is Good.

Although a relatively older article, I’m always looking for insights from credible sources that effectively back up what my kids have been hearing from me for years.

This is a good word by Collins and especially relevant given the post-election fallout this week.

A quote from the book, The Road to Wisdom by Francis Collins.

I’ve been taking incremental steps to simplify my (digital) life. While reviewing my premium subscriptions set to renew this month, I made the call to unsubscribe from Instapaper. I’ve been a loyal user for the past 14 years but I’m consolidating and going all-in on Readwise (including Reader).

Perhaps I should have read this well before election season but I had to wait for my library hold to come due. I’m currently reading: Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson 📚

Well, they said that no matter how the election turned out, the sun would rise today. I guess they were right. 📷☀️

Picture of evergreen trees with the sun rising behind them against a backdrop of blue sky.

I had to pick up my daughter from the airport late last night, and we didn’t get home until after 1:00 AM. It took me a while to settle in, so I didn’t head to bed until after 2:00 AM. Consequently, I’m running a little low on energy today.

My kids are at the age where they have LinkedIn accounts. My youngest just created hers for a school assignment, and it’s one more sign we’re stepping into a new season. It’s exciting and bittersweet—a blend of pride, nostalgia, and a glimpse of what’s ahead. I’m definitely feeling this transition.

Finally feeling better! I’m not quite at 100%, but this week I feel the best I have in about six weeks. I resisted taking antibiotics, but I have to admit—they’re making a difference. This past weekend was the first in a while that I didn’t spend mostly in bed.