by Kent Pilkington | Mar 12, 2009 | Observations
A few years back, I was at a men’s retreat with my dad. One of the activities was to climb a 30-foot pole (like a telephone pole), climb onto a 1’x2′ platform, stand up, and jump for a trapeze bar a few feet away. Having donned a harness and a...
by Kent Pilkington | Feb 12, 2009 | Observations
Blame the media. Blame the politicians. Blame whatever you want, but the state of political debate and thought in the mass media seems to be more diatribe than debate. Each side blindly trumpets its own headlines, accusing all nay-sayers of being liberal or...
by Kent Pilkington | Jan 19, 2009 | Observations
Recently on Facebook, I mentioned that this year’s theme will be “The Abolition of Shame”. I wasn’t sure what kind of response it would get because so many people either don’t even recognize shame, or think it is entirely appropriate. A...
by Kent Pilkington | Oct 12, 2008 | Creative Writing, Quotables
I have Type II Diabetes. I’m rather open about it for a number of reasons, but the point is that both of my children know what it is, what can happen if untreated – more than they ever really wanted to know. Recently, my wife came across a story that my...
by Kent Pilkington | Sep 18, 2008 | Observations
Dualism is a term used to describe the act of separating experiences or things into two groups: good and bad. Different people use different criteria for sorting things into these groups, so you might recognize them more as right and wrong, good and evil, dark and...
by Kent Pilkington | Sep 4, 2008 | Observations
This is a post on what I am learning about Non-Violent Communication (NVC). You can find an introduction to NVC in a previous post. The first step in the NVC process is to Observe. When I saw this, I thought, “Great! As a software engineer, I’m already a...
by Kent Pilkington | Sep 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
Something I’ve been studying recently is a communication technique called Non-Violent Communication (NVC), pioneered by a man named Marshall B. Rosenberg. I’ve also heard it referred to as Compassionate Communication, though. It is a way of communicating...
by Kent Pilkington | Mar 14, 2008 | Quotables
DOG DIARY 8:00 am – Dog food! My favorite thing! 9:30 am – A car ride! My favorite thing! 9:40 am – A walk in the park! My favorite thing! 10:30 am – Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing! 12:00 pm – Lunch! My favorite thing! 1:00 pm...
by Kent Pilkington | Jan 4, 2008 | Quotables
Over the Christmas/New Years break, my 7-year-old son, Alex, was introduced to an online game called Toontown. He was having a bit of trouble with dropped connections to the server, and I speculated that there might be a more players online than their server can...
by Kent Pilkington | Apr 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
… to blog more often. 🙂
