#86 — Some Thoughts on Family Day

February 19, 2024
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Another week begins. Today is a holiday in Canada. The first long weekend of the year is called Family Day. A time to remind us of the importance of family. We have two families. There is the family we’re born into and the family we choose.

Blood is always thicker than water, but many struggle with family dynamics. Individuals brought together by birth don’t always see eye-to-eye. Sometimes they struggle to get along. Sometimes they forget they are family and let their anger get out of hand.

I come from a family of five children. My siblings are a mix of personalities, likes, and dislikes. One of my brothers and I don’t agree on politics. We’ll argue over them but both of us are firm that when we get up from the table, we’re still family and that will always be more important than politics. I’m grateful that we can both be true to our beliefs and still respect each other. We don’t always have to agree to respect someone.

There are people in my life I value as though they were family. Those are my chosen family, people who care about each other and support what we do. We don’t need to get into the family dynamics with each other. There’s no messy stuff that intrudes into blood family. We get to care about each other because we’re drawn into a deep friendship of choice.

I value both my blood and chosen family.

I’ve made some progress on my sites this past week. Mostly backend work on SEO.

The post on workflow and how I use AI is about halfway done. Thursday is the deadline to have it completed. I’d like to have it completed sooner. Maybe even later today.

This month’s words for the Daily Echo have been an interesting challenge some days. I’ve learned a few new words like, equilibrioception, hypnagogia, liminal, hiraeth, phosphene, and komorebi. I didn’t realize I’d be expanding my vocabulary while doing this project, but I’m enjoying the discoveries I’ve been making.

Phosphenes caught my attention enough that I did my podcast this week on my experiences with it. It’s about a 7 minute listen.

Hope you have a great week.
ShadowsPub

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