Attending the Days

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I'll drop occasional reflections on presence, absurdity, values, and the small daily acts that carry meaning.

Life moves fast. These essays don’t. This is where I pause, consider, and post the occasional thought — quietly, and never on a schedule.

Attending the Days began as a simple attempt to meet life more fully with attention, honesty, and a little humor. I write for those who sense there's more to notice, more to live, and more to love in the ordinary rhythm of our days.

Each post explores core themes like consciousness, impermanence, absurdity, cultivating your way, and present-moment living offering clarity, presence, and ways toward meaning. Each theme is shaped by three steady principles informed by Stoic practice and colored with Taoist aesthetic:

1. Perception (the pulse of what we notice and what slips by, the framing that shapes how we encounter the world) 
2. Aware Action (the movement that carries us through the world without clinging, a way of stepping into genuine, unattached living)
3. Alignment (our self-correcting return that tunes perception and action to what matters most; enfolding us in the spiral of nature's values and opening us to fuller participation in what seeks to live through us) 

These principles orient us; values surface from life itself. When I apply the principles as lenses to experience, they illuminate nature's deeper movements, revealing the quiet currents flowing beneath everything:

• Resonance: life vibrating in relationship, each note shaped by tension.
• Harmony: opposites joining into something richer than their parts. 
• Generosity: potential offered without demand.
   

The essays here draw from both: principles that help us navigate, and values that let us feel nature's underlying music. 

This blog offers no blueprint for perfectionism. It offers company. A gentle nudge toward reflection. It shares sheet music with a few suggested notes, yet leaves most of the page open. An open score where  emptiness carries possibility across the measures, and allows the muddled threads of interconnectedness to hum together, giving rise to life and meaning. The betweenness of things: that gap between neurons where meaning sparks, the pause between heartbeats where life unfolds, the space between self and other where love arises. 

Mostly, it's a chance to let daily moments sing with resonance, tense toward harmony, and rest in generosity. A way of tuning the mundane bits of our lives into something quietly meaningful. This is all we really have anyway.

If you're curious, thoughtful, occasionally overwhelmed, and still drawn to depth — you’re in the right space.