by Jason Freeman | Sep 23, 2025 | Imperfect Best
When I quit playing the recorder after my 4th grade music class wrapped up, it was a super easy decision. I had precisely zero interest in finding a solution to the challenge of learning to play the recorder well. When I walked away from that instrument,...
by Jason Freeman | Sep 17, 2025 | Imperfect Best
What I’ve found as my life has gone on and I have grown is that I used to feel extremely limited, yes. However, I no longer imagine this sense of limitation was caused by my disability, but rather by my habits and personal practices….or lack thereof. ...
by Jason Freeman | Aug 14, 2025 | Imperfect Best
My Grandpa Francis Cloud Schellinger used to talk about people who wore a belt and suspenders at the same time. He figured they did this to be double safe and insure their pants had absolutely no chance of falling down. I think my grandpa found these...
by Jason Freeman | Jul 31, 2025 | Imperfect Best
What will make you a successful human being? What will make you a successful human being in your own eyes, in your own heart, in your own mind? Notice I said in your eyes, not in the eyes of other people, not in the eyes of your parents, not in...
by Jason Freeman | Jul 10, 2025 | Imperfect Best
If I’m calculating correctly, the spring of my 7th grade year was 1989. That was the year I attempted to take my own life because I was utterly distraught about having a disability, my best friend and grandma having died a few years before, and the world news...
by Jason Freeman | May 29, 2025 | Imperfect Best
Have you ever had the notion that despite all your efforts, you always wind up back at square one? I know I do. But how would this be so? Let’s say you count from 1 to 99, as you say each number, they sound different, they look different and they even feel...
by Jason Freeman | May 8, 2025 | Imperfect Best
Let me start this by making a public apology… To my fourth grade music teacher, classmates, my parents and anyone else whose ears had to suffer through my half-hearted attempts at playing the recorder, There’s no good reason you should have had to endure...
by Jason Freeman | Apr 10, 2025 | Imperfect Best
“If only I had more hours in a day.” “If only there were an extra day in the week.” “If only I wasn’t so slow.” For years I told myself things like this. I imagine you might have too. Yes, they are just words, short simple sentences, but watch out if they become...
by Jason Freeman | Feb 25, 2025 | Imperfect Best
Have you noticed how New Year’s resolutions would be so much simpler to keep if life didn’t have the super annoying habit of getting in the way? I mean, on any given day there are countless distractions in our lives, from devastating fires in Los...
by Jason Freeman | Feb 6, 2025 | Imperfect Best
Getting stuck in apology mode and marinating in guilt over a mistake is not typically a productive way forward. I know, I’ve gone down this rutted, worn, treacherous dirt road countless times. I know this. Yet one morning fairly recently, I found myself tempted...
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