Professional Life: 2020: Adjusting to a new job can be difficult and I wanted to be sure I knew my way around the procedures before taking on extra projects. After some reflection, I decided to take an opportunity to being a Team Lead in the Bank. This is a procedural expert that not only help [...]
Category: Reflections
2020
The ice and snow are all around The wind above all the sound A new year upon us Oh, this is great! Dinner with friends will start at eight More fun poems to describe the season A visit to the city A train ride, I’m giddy Views are spectacular to the horizon As I get [...]
Lonely Workers
Exit the large highway that connects one state to another. Make your way past the shops and the homes of downtown. Ignore the suburbs for a moment. Get on a two lane road that cuts a county in two. You will notice farmland as far as you can see, ready for the coming winter months. [...]
The Magic of Animation: Korra
The Legend of Korra
The Magic of Animation: Avatar
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Magic of Animation: Introduction
Does animation do a better job of sharing emotions than live-action media?
Anne and Elizabeth
Over the past few weeks, I have been visiting some old friends in the form of TV characters. I decided to re-watch Anne with an E and When Calls the Heart. These shows are both wildly different and surprisingly the same. Canada is the backdrop of these adventurous worlds. Anne finds herself on Prince Edward [...]
Green in the Time of Darkness
I went on a short adventure today. After a month of not leaving the confines of my apartment complex, I hit the road to visit a local state park. The low humidity keeps me grounded in the fact that I am in my new state of Illinois. I start off easy with a couple different [...]
Pandemic
When the idea of working from home was mentioned as an option several weeks back, I treated it with a strange type of distain. I had always kept the different parts of my life very separate. My friends from different parts of my life did not meet until my Eagle Scout ceremony. As I have [...]
Winter in the Snow
This week began with a surprise as we started the season early with an even four inches of snowfall covering the ground. I can’t explain why I was surprised, but I was excited, all the same. The end of the year is less than three weeks away and I have been making some changes in my [...]