/Now Archive

2024-04-06

Cultivation:

  • Finding refuge in Maggasekha with Bhante Jayasara and community, meditating at 6-7 PT weekdays, quite enjoyable to see the mind formulate reality and perception in the early hours…

Connection:

  • Joined the Service Guild with Tasshin Fogleman and Mary Bajorek, finding lovely connection here
  • Meeting regularly with the Sunday Crew, the Sounding Board
  • Hanging out with Rickshaw peeps
  • Lots of time spent on Warpcast hosting /spirituality and /christin’s cleaning crew

Creativity:

  • Hosting the BeavChris and BArt-Head Show (bcbhshow.com) a video podcast about the Farcaster middle class
  • Working on a new Secret Project

Constitution:

  • Running outside on weekdays for ~1 hour with Yuhong

Currency:

  • Buried in tax filing tasks
  • Seeking a new growth strat role at a biotech while cultivating chaplaincy online
  • Decluttering and selling things to live a lightweight, minimalist lifestyle

2024-02-14

Cultivation:

  • Enrolled in Peter McEwen’s tummo meditation class, excited to learn this new method and view
  • Enrolled in the Path of Fearlessness with Diana Clark and Tanya Wiser at Insight Meditation Center
  • Finding refuge in Maggasekha with Bhante Jayasara and community

Connection:

  • Joined the Service Guild with Tasshin Folgleman and Mary Bajorek, finding lovely connection here
  • Meeting regularly with the Sunday Crew, the Sounding Board
  • Coworking with Lyssa and Maymie occasionally
  • Hanging out with Rickshaw peeps
  • Spending mornings with Flow Club
  • Lots of time spent on Warpcast hosting /spirituality and /christin’s cleaning crew

Creativity:

  • Refreshing website to reflect the past few years of culminating work
  • Practicing stand-up comedy about spirituality at local open mics

Constitution:

  • Tactical strength and conditioning at FullGrip Barbell

Currency:

  • Seeking a new growth strat role at a biotech while cultivating chaplaincy online
  • Decluttering and selling things to live a lightweight, minimalist lifestyle

2021-09-07

Cultivation:

  • Hosting IMC neighborhood Zoom meditation group ~2-monthly.
  • Supporting Alliance for Bhikkhunis as treasurer and board member.
  • Using Insight Timer to track daily meditations. Sittings are becoming more enjoyable with time and less of a chore.

Connection:

  • Building the Rickshaw community and lore.

Creativity:

  • Write of Passage Cohort 7
  • Weekly podcast/streaming with George and Seng Yip - Evening Drama
    • Weekly fiction writing practice with mixed results, haha!

Constitution:

  • Tactical strength and conditioning at FullGrip Barbell
  • Noom to track food intake and learn better eating habits - cheesey but actually seems to work!
  • Practicing Wim Hof method - cold showers, breathing techniques.

Currency:

  • Co-founded honeyritual tea
  • Part-time consulting for biotech companies
  • Still using Lunch Money, a delightful budgeting app.

2021-02-15

Cultivation:

  • Taking IMC’s Deep Diversity program
  • Hosting IMC neighborhood Zoom meditation group monthly.
  • Continuing to support Alliance for Bhikkhunis as treasurer.
  • Beginning to learn more about Qigong within the buddhist framework to refine practice of anapanasati.

Connection:

  • Weekly zooms and Among Us games with friends. Occasional outdoor dining when allowed and hiking while social distanced and masked.
  • Oh! I got an Oculus Quest 2. Now I can hang out with friends in virtual reality. So far we have tried using Real VR Fishing, which is a good low-key game that’s easy to learn.

Creativity:

  • Weekly podcast/streaming with George and Seng Yip - Evening Drama
    • Weekly fiction writing practice with mixed results, haha!
  • Building the Rickshaw community and lore. Transplanting Meaningful Conversations project to here.

Constitution:

  • Weightlifting at FullGrip Barbell
  • Got a mini-stepper to use while browsing the internet to increase cardio
  • Another round of RP diet - small cut - see [[ 2021 Habit Tweaks ]]

Currency:

2020-05-16

Cultivation:

Connection:

  • COVID-19 New World continues. Washing hands furiously with Jewel’s song stuck in my head.

Creativity:

  • Thrilled to have finally figured out how to update my website with a decent web developer environment setup. Continuing to tweak and share “sticking this on the fridge” level thoughts.
  • Learning to play The Shape of Things to Come as heard on Battlestar Galactica, on the piano.
  • Building the Rickshaw community and lore. Transplanting Meaningful Conversations project to here.

Constitution:

Currency:

  • Excited about a new career opportunity and learning all I can!
  • Still using Lunch Money, a delightful budgeting app.

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