- Life explains itself better as it goes by than I do trying to explain it
- This year a small group of people left my life replaced by a large group of incredible people
- Stand Up Comedy is stronger than the forces trying to cancel it
- In my 50’s, I’m starting to pull muscles I didn’t even know I had
- Addiction is better combatted personally by addressing the demand through recovery than the supply which can be
- Working on my issues is the single most impactful thing I can do for the world
- Writing is super easy until I have to write
- We are in the Golden Age of TV
- Ted Lasso’s first and second season show the magnificence of the beloved range of humanity
- The reason so many people like me is I’m willing to admit and share where I don’t like myself
- My daughter is still the number one teacher in my life
- My daughter is the relationship in my life that is the perfect example where my duty to be my best meets my desire to be my best
- Expecting something different from people is sometimes a GREAT teacher and the lesson learned isn’t necessarily for me to lower my expectations
- I miss my Dad
- At 53 I’m a better basketball player than I was at 23
- At 53 my hair is better than it was at 23
- It’s on me to keep up with how the younger generation is changing and bring a perspective of emotional fluency and understanding to it rather than trying to control or stop it
- The immediacy of listening to what I want far outweighs the joy of unexpectedly hearing a song on a radio
- The emotional wounds of the pandemic life will last as long as we don’t identify and work on them
- Family is family is a way of describing just how difficult family is and ultimately the only family I REALLY owe my life work to is my daughter
- I’d rather hang out with Taylor Swift than Eddie Vedder
- Personal branding still sucks, I’d rather us just be who we are and let THAT be your “brand”
- Social media is simply a channel, our emotional and spiritual health trumps it every single time
- My God is way better than the God I was awkwardly intro’d to as a kid
- Having won a Super Bowl, I’m less impacted by the ups and downs of my beloved Chiefs and I’ll never leave them
- My high school and college friends and I are all idiots with each other I wouldn’t want it any other way
- It’s getting increasingly harder to be a young man to adjust to showing up for young women in the way I think they deserve, it’s scary, I get it
- As I should be dead given my addiction, I’m playing life with house money
- Life is improv, I ask myself how am I saying “yes and” to it
- My 100% grounded no’s lead me to my 100% grounded yes’s
- I don’t kick people out of my life because of their politics, I kick them out if they’re jerks about their politics
- Writers are the most interesting people in Hollywood
- Saying I have white privilege is not an insult or make me feel guilty, it’s a possible invitation to a perspective broadening discussion or you’re lobbing judgment my way, I’ll figure out which one it is quickly
- We parents who don’t actively work on ourselves or get help are damaging our children, I know because I did and on a daily basis I try to live differently and let my daughter know she can ask or talk about when I was creating problems
- I don’t particularly care if you don’t get vaccinated, nor do I particularly care how angry you might be if you choose not to and there are consequences
- When you deconstruct the way NFT’s are valued, it makes perfect sense and resembles a ton of other asset classes
- I’m SUPER proud of myself for having launched a podcast about something I care about
- Listening to songs that remind me of my ex gf show me where I am in healing from it
- Most of my emotional difficulties today relate to emotional wounds from my childhood
- Well set boundaries are WAY more connecting than isolating
- If audio books were better integrated with the actual books, I’d buy more actual books
- I have an awesome voice, I finally get it
- “It is what it is” is one of the most damaging, misused spiritual axiom that we use
- I love people who love me for who I am and are courageous enough to point out where I have room to grow
- Dating can either be fun or a drag, it’s my choice
- I value people who are smarter than me as much as I value people who aren’t who are curious question askers to help us understand each other
- The slower I go the wider the flow
- There is NO reason sex shouldn’t be openly discussed
- We should welcome women to talk about periods, PMS, Menopause whatever it’s a beautiful, natural and men and women BOTH have a role in making this a reality
- San Francisco is the best city I’ve ever been in and is not nearly as accepting and liberal as many think it is
- We need a new word for love, it’s not nuanced enough
- When I hated or hate myself it’s more achievable for me to get to self like than it is self love
- At 53 I’m finally coming to terms with how many people love me and like me
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Loved every word. Precise and thoughtful. Smiled and nodded the whole way through.
Posted by: Kerlia Edmiston | November 16, 2021 at 01:16 PM
Thank you so much Kerlia, what a wonderful gift to get to know you. :)
Posted by: Tim J Taylor | November 16, 2021 at 01:19 PM