Tag: ordinary-life
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The way I see it, there are two kinds of people in the world. There are those who are active. Who change things. Who affect what’s around them, who make a difference, who shape the world in some way. And there are those who are more passive. Who let things happen to them… who drift.…
Letter to Isaac: Work Hard… Do Your Best
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Week seven, then week ten. The middle stretch of lockdown had its own texture… a mix of small wins and a particular kind of low-grade exhaustion that’s hard to describe unless you were in it. Week seven was actually a good day. I’d been championing a data science role at work for a while, pushing…
Rain, Tables, and a Job Offer – Covid Part 4
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Not everything from lockdown was heavy. These are two moments I’d almost forgotten about until I went back through the diary. Both involve Isaac. Both involve questionable decisions on my part. Week four, a Saturday night. We’d been ducking invites to a video call the DJ crowd had been running since the whole thing started.…
Small Acts of Ridiculous – Covid Part 3
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March 2020. These are reflections from a diary I kept through lockdown. Looking back now, what strikes me most is how ordinary the beginning felt. There have been a handful of times in my life when I’ve felt the ground shift under everyone’s feet at once. The Berlin Wall coming down. September 11th. The July…
An Observer No Longer – Covid Part 1
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. — Philippians 2:3–4 We were selling our house in Newport. The boiler was fifteen years old and starting to make its objections known,…
The Boiler Story