I spent nearly twenty years preaching metadata discipline. Then I loaded my own family photos into one place and found a decade of dates that lie.
Date Created
The Step in Front of You
Brushed off at nineteen, stuck in a smoke-filled office, and a cancer diagnosis that came back. What got me through all three was the same thing: the step in front of me.
Glass
A sleeping bear with her paw on the glass and a gorilla doing tricks for snacks. A day at the zoo, and the two things that got me off the mat before I turned thirty.
Folklore
A man at church asked if AI could fix his wandering meetings. The answer turned out to be the oldest rule in data governance: write down what you decided and why.
Only
A younger man at Bible study said "my current wife." Before I could stop myself, I corrected him. On being one of the old guys at the table.
