David Given Schwarm

       He has outsoar’d the shadow of our night;       Envy and calumny and hate and pain,       And that unrest which men miscall delight,       Can touch him not and torture not again;       From the contagion of the world’s slow stain       He is secure, and now can never mourn       A heart grown cold, a head grown gray…

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Bible. This book is so good–basically creating a field and defining a set of practices that needed a lot of definition. Helpful for everyone regardless of where they are on in their path of ensure prod is…

INGWAZ, The Rune of Peace and Harmony You may feel isolated on your spiritual journey, but there is a fire of inspiration within you, supporting you to go upward and onward. Feed that noble fire by perseverance, seek answers, but escape irrelevant questions. Live only in your present.

       Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,       He hath awaken’d from the dream of life;       ‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep       With phantoms an unprofitable strife,       And in mad trance, strike with our spirit’s knife       Invulnerable nothings. We decay       Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief       Convulse us and consume…

We are not ‘everything,’ but neither are we ‘nothing.’ Spirituality is discovered in that space between paradox’s extremes, for there we confront our helplessness and powerlessness, our woundedness. In seeking to understand our limitations, we seek not only an easing of our pain but an understanding of what it means to hurt and what it…