I’ve often found that some of the most enlightening moments come right after you throw your hands up in the air and embrace that you have absolutely no clue. It’s when you’ve emptied yourself of all of those preconceptions that spotting something true is almost effortless, instinctual even.
Last night I found this presentation with Mike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, and the narrator of countless others, explaining that very thing. He calls it, “getting it wrong.”
He makes a few great points that had me thinking about a few …

Consider this the first post in a new series on this blog: Dream journal. Some of the best writers in the world have kept an eye on their dreams. I’ll follow their leads.
This morning’s dream is the easiest to interpret, considering I’m about a millisecond form becoming a dad.
The setting is a seaside. Dark wood huts line a dark boardwalk. I walk with a woman, she is dark and young and we laugh as we head into a foggy park. We play on swings and a merry-go-round, and the tryst …