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content/posts/26-03-05-why-do-we-keep-fighting-wars.md

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-date: 2026-03-05T00:20:24-07:00
+date: 2026-03-04T23:20:24-07:00
 description: "A hopeless plea to those in power to stop fighting"
 image: ""
-lastmod: 2026-03-05T01:00:19-07:00
+lastmod: 2026-03-06T22:41:50-07:00
+draft: false
 showTableOfContents: false
 tags: ["politics", "war"]
 title: "Why Do We Keep Fighting Wars?"
@@ -33,9 +34,9 @@ In your quaint town full of little rascals like yourself, everyone plays the gam
 
 You could pinpoint many reasons why. Born with two left feet, to parents without the means to get you your own chess set, needing to borrow others to practice. So on and so on.
 
-More importantly, loud-mouthed-profesional-yapper Chad excels at the game. Many think he is unbeatable.
+More importantly, loud-mouthed-professional-yapper Chad excels at the game. Many think he is unbeatable.
 
->  So what's the rub?
+> So what's the rub?
 
 Every time you lose at the game, which you do every time playing against this bro, Chad tells you in no uncertain terms how bad you are.
 

content/posts/26-03-06-body-awareness-is-no-joke.md

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+---
+date: 2026-03-05T21:15:30-07:00
+description: "Taking time to pay attention to your body pays off."
+# image: ""
+lastmod: 2026-03-06T22:41:50-07:00
+showTableOfContents: false
+tags: ["body", "health"]
+title: "Body Awareness Is No Joke"
+type: "post"
+---
+
+# Releasing Tension
+
+I [carry baby in a carrier](/posts/baby-carriers-are-exceedingly-good) pretty often, and find it leaves my back achy.
+
+I took a moment to really try and feel the texture and shape of this ache. After some online anatomy searching, I pinpointed the vertebrae (T5-T9 area) and that seemed to contain the strain.
+
+With just patience and breathing, I focused on expanding my posterior rib cage. Waiting for my body to loosen the grip of just the surrounding muscles guarding the tension.
+
+{{<aside caption="My Big Insight">}}
+I always thought relaxing was a willed state. A quieting of the mind, of thinking to not think.
+
+This of course only reinforces the sympathetic nervous system.
+
+In reality, it's the mind dropping the background.
+
+I learned I can only create the conditions for the parasympathetic system to take control. Similar to dilating your own pupils, you can't will that, it happens based on the lighting conditions around you.
+{{</aside>}}
+
+## Sources
+
+For some "light" reading on all of this if you are curious:
+
+- [The Stretch Reflex (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch_reflex) causes muscle flexion when stretched to a certain point
+- [Golgi tendon organ (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi_tendon_organ) signals to muscles relax when the right conditions are met

content/posts/26-03-06-good-gift-giving-is-difficult-for-good-reason.md

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+---
+date: 2026-03-06T22:13:10-07:00
+description: "Some thoughts on what makes a good gift, and why its hard to do it well."
+# image: ""
+lastmod: 2026-03-06T22:41:50-07:00
+showTableOfContents: false
+tags: ["life", "practices"]
+title: "Good Gift Giving Is Difficult for Good Reason"
+type: "post"
+---
+
+# A Gift is No Simple Thing
+
+I think the standard low-effort but always appreciated gift is money.
+
+Money indicates that you value some person, but don't really have the time to invest in finding something meaningful.
+
+I think every person is different, so having a class of "evergreen" gifts is nonsense.
+
+To give a truly nice gift requires selflessness.
+
+You need to take time to start listening.
+
+I think people signal things they want all the time.
+
+## The First Kind of Gift
+
+Lots of people I know are uncomfortable with the question "What do you want for \<special occasion\>?" It's so direct. Worse, its a trap, answering broadcasts how truly un-humble you are, needing trinkets and worldly things. No no, better to say something bland, normal, or nothing at all.
+
+But unprompted, people will telegraph countless things they wish for. Some are hard to wrap, like a bigger home, or a different career, or more fulfilling relationships.
+
+But notice, each of those things can be delivered, in some form, as a gift of time and attention: time set aside to scroll Zillow together and dream, a tighter budget to allocate funds to education or trade school.
+
+This is the first precious gift you can give someone: __noticing__.
+
+## The Priceless Gift
+
+Time.
+
+We come here with only so much.
+
+Any moment you take to be with someone is precious, final, and non-refundable.
+
+Giving your time to someone typically looks in our heads like being with them. But it's certainly possible to give your time to someone by yourself. Researching just the right piece of jewelry or keyboard based on the criteria you know they look for may be invaluable.
+
+I want to stretch my gift giving abilities. Put myself in another's shoes, think from their POV (as best as I can manage) and give a thing I (they) would truly appreciate.
+
+It's so easy to give the thing we would appreciate; always presented in our minds. A meal, a movie ticket, an obscure tiny Linux computer. Much harder is to give what the person actually wants.

content/posts/to-fold-or-to-flip.md

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 date: 2026-02-25T23:08:49-07:00
 description: "Looks like I will be returning to my little flip phone"
 draft: false
-lastmod: 2026-02-26T00:45:22-07:00
+lastmod: 2026-03-06T22:41:50-07:00
 showTableOfContents: false
 tags: ["phone", "technology", "lifestyle"]
 type: "post"
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Apparently, putting your phone in rice doesn't really fix things.
 
 Shaking excess water off and putting the phone in a well ventilated area is what is actually recommended.
 
-[Yesterday, my Pixel Fold fell](../posts/what-do-you-want-in-a-phone) into a dog bowl, and I'm using it as an excuse to go back to my TCL Flip 2. The Pixel Fold is a great phone, but I think my life will be more full without it.
+[Yesterday, my Pixel Fold fell](/posts/what-do-you-want-in-a-phone) into a dog bowl, and I'm using it as an excuse to go back to my TCL Flip 2. The Pixel Fold is a great phone, but I think my life will be more full without it.
 
 I booted it up and swapped my SIM card into it. It reminded me how much I enjoyed having this little phone on me for those months last year.