Kyle FinchamApr 295 min100 Foot Waves“Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular, but have gone out...
Kyle FinchamFeb 149 minAdd a Comma“Home is in your heart, and wisdom makes it a nice place to be. Learn something from every lesson and share the things you know to be...
Kyle FinchamJan 205 minWhat's Your Message?“Reverse engineer an outcome: Think of what you want to be different because you gathered, and work backward from that outcome.” ― Priya...
Kyle FinchamDec 9, 20214 minDance with Life“Play is the swing off the rhythm in music, the bounce in the ball, the dance that delivers us from the lockstep march or life. It is...
Kyle FinchamSep 27, 20216 minYou are Enough“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune I’ve had almost 70 conversations for...
Kyle FinchamJun 15, 20216 minA Watercourse Way“There is no way that anything is supposed to be. There is only the constant mutation of is.” -Stephen Nachmanovitch, The Art of Is Just...
Kyle FinchamFeb 11, 20215 minSurprise Yourself“Isn't there something in living dangerously?” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World During the lockdown, I took an online class, organized by...
Kyle FinchamNov 6, 20204 minWhat is Strength?“Thus wu-wei as ‘not forcing’ is what we mean by going with the grand, rolling with the punch, swimming with the current, trimming sails...
Kyle FinchamSep 21, 202014 minMovement Refugee Part III: Boulder Bound“Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma...
Kyle FinchamAug 10, 20208 minPure Imagination“The imagining attention prepares our attention for instantaneousness.” -Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space I often think of the...
Kyle FinchamJul 13, 202014 minThe Ball is in Here“Artists in the far east have made a great deal of what they call “the controlled accident”; marvelous things which happen as surprises...
Kyle FinchamMay 29, 20207 minMovement Refugee Part II“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.” -Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space At the end of April,...
Kyle FinchamMay 6, 20206 minLife is Crooked“Once a system is well-defined, or “boxed”, it becomes vulnerable.” -Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid...
Kyle FinchamApr 11, 20205 minPlay to Play“Fields of play simply do not impose themselves on us. Therefore, all the limitations of finite play are self-limitations.” -James P....
Kyle FinchamMar 28, 20209 minMovement Refugee“True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness...
Kyle FinchamMar 11, 20206 minCertifications are DOA“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.” -Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Before...
Kyle FinchamFeb 12, 20204 minBeing Better at Being with People“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are...
Kyle FinchamJan 22, 20206 minFunny Movers“The joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey.” ―...
Kyle FinchamJan 6, 20206 minGeneralist Nirvana“The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed...
Kyle FinchamDec 11, 20196 minThank You, SNL“The reader must come armed, in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In...