Evynn Tyler McFalls
Life moves in cycles. Sometimes things are warm and pleasant and lively, and you can't wait to be in the throes of springtime joy. Other times, the cold comes, and you'd rather hide out in the dark and gather your strength until you're ready to walk in the light again. Sometimes, you bloom. Other times, you take a break and stay out of the fray until you're really ready.
Lorable, a Nevada-based software company specializing in the development of choice-and-scenario based narrative tools, today announced the recruitment of Evynn McFalls, M.A. as Chief Marketing Officer.
Earlier this week I read a piece in Refinery29 by famed former Vogue Paris editor and authoress Joan Juliet Buck. Titled "Advice To My 26-Year-Old Self", the work was a reflective letter from a wisened woman who saw much in her life and found clarity as a result. Perhaps because I am the age cohort …
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For a long time I have been thinking about the concept of "love without attachment", and though I do not misunderstand this thinking to mean "lightness" or "avoidance", I still think that the concept deserves some re-examination. I understand it when people say, "How you feel, how I feel, that isn't our responsibility to one …
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Over the past couple of weeks, I have been teaching my global literature students the work of Yiyun Li. In particular, we've been reading her collection of short stories, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—as well as from her various pieces in The New Yorker. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl is a challenging read for my students because much of the content is bleak in a …
Tomorrow morning, I'll wake up no later than 4:00 AM to start my day. I'll call out to one of the artificial intelligences now living in my home to brief me on world events, the hallucinogenic nightmare that is our current governmental situation, business and technology developments, and , maybe a tidbit or two from the …
We must confront the reality of Martin Luther King Jr.'s message, rather than sanitizing it to comfort and protect ourselves from the reality of just how short we've fallen of his grand vision.
I am a remarkable human being, but I am no longer interested in allowing that to be the barometer by which I measure my sense of self-worth or joy. The idea that we must be these perfectly efficient, dynamic, palatable beings at all times is a scam and I won’t be putting my cognitive energy into this psychic racketeering job anymore.
Hi folks, and happy new year! I hope that your New Year's Eve celebrations were memorable and festive and that your New Year's Day was one spent relaxing, realigning, and preparing yourself for another 52 weeks of discovery, adventure, connection, joy, and triumph. As promised (albeit somewhat late—let's blame that on the festive New Year's …
Continue reading "These Resolutions Might Be Televised: 10 Themes for 2019 (Part 2)"
I've got a lot of things on my mind as I head in to 2019. Allow me to share what I'm planning for the next year. Hopefully you'll find something useful for yourself in it. Happy New Year!
A Language of Being 