by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Creativity, Writing
Today is my 100th consecutive day of blogging and posting! Here are some thoughts on this experience. It hasn’t been all that difficult to blog and write daily. Most of my posts are small and light. The two key disciplines I have needed to blog daily are to have a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Play, Stress
During CoVid, I’m doing my best to create “joy bubbles.” (Here I am not talking about Deep Joy. That’s the purpose of life stuff. I don’t think you create that type of joy—a joy which is more of a way of living every day, nearly a discipline.) I am...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Philosophy, Politics
There are two of the definitions of ambivalence in the Oxford English Dictionary: Psychoanalysis and Psychology. The coexistence in one person of profoundly opposing emotions, beliefs, attitudes, or urges (such as love and hate, or attraction and repulsion) towards a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Creativity, Writing, Writing Habits
For my blog, idea capture is not one of my weaknesses. I have a running list of over one hundred ideas for blog topics at any given time (117 as of this morning), which I can dive into whenever I want. Whenever I have an idea for a blog topic I activate Siri on my...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Photography, Writing
This week, on my drive home after my Saturday morning photoshoot (where I took the above photograph), I came up with what I thought was a new, super-cool hashtag: #Phoetry: A photograph-inspired poem. To my surprise—and momentary dismay—when I got home I found this...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Physician Career
I am currently taking a short 6-week class from a professional photographer called Shoot-To Share, in which we students receive critical feedback about our work. One of my goals for this course is to explore the relationship between photography and sculpture. For...
