January 2015 – Page 2

Success

January 9, 2015January 9, 2015

For over twenty years I’ve had a set of infant car keys hanging from my rear-view mirror. There are five, and they represent the keys to…

Love
Success
Life
Wisdom
Happiness

This week a few things have happened to cause me to think a bit about where I am in life– both professionally and in my family. As I was driving back from Boulder today I happened to glance up at my keys and I noticed one of them was looking back at me:

I couldn’t help but get a little introspective. Have I been a “success” in life so far? What does success mean for me? What changes might I need to make to accomplish what I need to do?

Stay tuned.

Hay Day

January 9, 2015January 9, 2015

Both Laralee and Zack have an app called Hay Day that allows you to run a farm. You raise chickens and pigs and cows, produce eggs, bacon, and milk, make cupcakes, stash things in your barn, and sell them to other players across the internet (or, in their case, to each other).

This scene is pretty common around the house these days:

Yep, they’re trading popcorn or whatever. The game is pretty clever because it takes time to produce things, so you have to keep coming back every hour or two and check in on your stuff. It’s funny to see the two of them sucked into it like this.

I’m going to be somebody

January 9, 2015January 9, 2015

I saw this funny Tumblr page by a guy named Martin Bruckner, who made posters illustrating things his two-year-old daughter said. Here’s my favorite.

Wouldn’t it be cool if everyone felt that way?

Salt

January 8, 2015January 8, 2015

I saw a series of photographs by a woman named Emma Phillips; she’d stumbled across a salt mine in Australia and was inspired by the other-worldly appearance of these massive piles of salt. When I saw the pictures I was amazed. I guess I never really thought about how salt is mined, but to see white cliffs and piles hundreds of feet high and bulldozers moving it around just seems unbelievable.