Marco Vargas-Avila

US logistics @DoleSunshine🍍🚛. Chicagoland by choice. Reposting mostly

[Vashon Jordan Jr. @vashon_photo]

Cold but make it beautiful 🍁🍂 #Chicago

[606_Vision @Jay3130Jay]

#Chicago

[Craig Shimala @cshimala]

The sun rises over Chicago's North Ave Pier on Sunday March 3rd. Captured with a 200-600mm zoom, the people and pier are silhouettes amongst the suns glow.

[Cullen Roche @cullenroche]

Having kids rewired my brain in so many ways. Here’s a mental hack I learned that you might find useful.

Let’s call it the Viktor Frankl Hack. You can always choose how you feel about difficult events.

When my kids are being difficult I can choose to view it as a burden that frustrates me or an opportunity to appreciate time with them and teach them to behave better.

I’m fighting with my wife - is this a chance to solve a problem and make a better relationship or is this something I should dwell on and depress about?

I’m exercising and getting tired. Is this a chance to get stronger and push thru the pain or is this a burden that I should stop?

Life is hard. It would be boring if it wasn’t. And you can always choose whether to view those difficulties as opportunities to overcome or burdens that will stop your progress.

This helped me, maybe it will help you. Maybe not. Either way, have a great weekend.

PS - Yes, I know that implementing this “hack” is easier said than done, but it’s helped me gain a better perspective about a lot of difficult events.

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

I reviewed my notes from the business mentoring I did over the last year.

I noticed I gave the same advice repeatedly.

Here are the top 11: 🧵

[Dooner 🇺🇸 @TimothyDooner]

Me testing the acoustics in the Flexport warehouse

[Craig Shimala @cshimala]

Last night's light show over Chicago.

[Scott Choppin | RE Development: Workforce Housing @ScottChoppin]

This is the map of the future for workforce housing real estate development.

Where the mega-regions are the hotbeds of economic activity, that economic activity also drives regional imbalances of housing for working class and middle income families.

This map is bullish for workforce housing investment, development and capital allocation.

[Vashon Jordan Jr. @vashon_photo]

This, this is part of what Chicago looks like.

[Marco Vargas-Avila @__MVA__]

@RunningSignal Do it! Curious about how the % share of us imports has changed since 2020

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Reminder that the US built some of the greatest train stations ever seen.

These are the most beautiful (thread) 🧵

[Cody Mayer @CodyMayer22]

fog

[Colleen Loustalot ✈️ @PIC_Colleen]

Name that ODP. Hint: KSDL > PXR.

[Marco Vargas-Avila @__MVA__]

@Andrew_Silver7 @FreightAlley Curious as well here

[606_Vision @Jay3130Jay]

The bright side to this cold weather has been some great photos in #Chicago

[606_Vision @Jay3130Jay]

Bucktown #Chicago St. Mary of Angels

[Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9]

Goodbye steam fog, hello frozen lake. Things are freezing along the lakeshore at day's end today in Chicago. #weather #news #chicago #ilwx

[Colin Boyle @colinbphoto]

Sunrise this morning was absolutely beautiful amid another day of subzero temperatures. Lake Michigan is still so steamy, as seen from Pratt Pier. #ILWX
1/16/24

Rogers Park, Chicago
#OnAssignment for @BlockClubCHI

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

4. Kinkaku-ji in the Snow by Hasui Kawase (1922)

A masterpiece from the last master of ukiyo-e. Nobody painted the snow like Hasui Kawase; the sensation of snowfall conjured perfectly, all white and blue, obscuring the thrusting eaves and shadows of Kinkaku-ji.