Mark Oberg-Uris

I practice.

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

@flatironscenter is hosting anyone impacted by the #BoulderCountyFire for free acu-detox, snacks, coffee, tea, and support at our office space across from the Lafayette YMCA @mitchellbyars @KyleClark @alex_burness

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

One of my faves

[SurfSkateThrash @SurfThrash]

Built To Spill
Randy Described Eternity
HBO’s Reverb (1999)

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

Maybe log off and call up a therapist? Not sure posting through it is the way here.

[Justin Murphy @jmrphy]

Am I just a monster? It's been 4 years since I became a father and I'm beginning to fear for my soul. The truth is I just don't like being around kids for very long. Historically, this is not uncommon among fathers, but today it feels almost illegal. It's causing me a lot of confusion and anguish.

The ideal amount of time I would like to spend playing with my kids is probably about 70-140 minutes a week—roughly ten minutes each day, maybe 2x/day, taking breaks from work. My feelings of love toward them are perfectly strong, but if I have to watch them or entertain them for more than about 10 minutes my blood starts to boil. I just want to be working, or accomplishing something. I try to be grateful, but it doesn't work.

It's 9 AM this morning, Saturday, January 3. It's a sunny, warm day here in Austin, and my four-year-old son is begging me to play catch in the street. I was drinking coffee, still waking up, so I didn’t really feel like it, but at this age his desire to play is insatiable. He begged and begged, so I conceded, and with a smile. I have no problem being a kind and loving father, the problem is only that I do not enjoy it. It's not that I'm trying to maximize my personal pleasure; it just seems wrong that I experience so little delight when my dad friends all claim to experience so much.

It was beautiful. We live on a picturesque, tree-lined block. I am even relatively relaxed from the holiday rest. Playing catch with your son is supposed to be an iconic, peak experience. Yet for every single minute, on the inside, I just don't want to be there. I want to be drinking my coffee in peace. Then I feel guilty and absurdly ungrateful, and ashamed, when we're done. I know that when he is a teenager, I'll long to have these days back. I have all of this perspective rationally, and I've been very patient and steadfast trying to digest it, but nothing fixes me emotionally.

Am I a terrible person? Or is my feeling within a certain range of historically normal and it's modern parenting norms that are off? Whether it's my fault or not, I don't even care, I just want to figure this out. Something is wrong and I no longer have the excuse of being new to this.

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

@lowtheband Never loses the tingling, hair standing up quality of all the best ones

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

@Huncho_Jman If they’re not going to consistently double him, or he gets to his spots before it comes, then game over

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

@JakeReed86 Skol!!

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

@alleiigh Colorado is pretty awesome

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

Dumb move

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. In his announcement of the closing, OMB Director Russell Vought called the center “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.”

NCAR, as the center is known, was founded in 1960 and has facilitated generations of breakthroughs in climate and weather science.

The announcement has drawn outcry from meteorologists and climate scientists across the country.

William Brangham recently spoke with Brown University’s Kim Cobb and meteorologist @MatthewCappucci.

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

@VikeFans Seriously. How’d we get here? It just boggles the mind.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Fairytale of New York isn’t just one of the best Christmas songs of all time, it’s one of the greatest songs ever written.

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

I figure this is our last year. Trying to embrace it all.

[Dan Orlovsky @danorlovsky7]

I try not to give life advice on this app. Life’s got a lot to it.

But I will say, once your kids know the truth about Christmas it’s never ever the same. Still amazing but not the same…..

For anyone with young young ones still—my advice—keep the magic going as long as you possibly can. As long as you possibly can.

[Flatirons Recovery @flatironscenter]

How awesome do we look in our new Flatirons Recovery gear?!?!

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

A great deal of truth here, as usual, from Chris

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

You can easily increase the quality of life for 99.9% of US citizens by properly dealing with the very few well-known repeat "notorious" offenders—putting them in prison or mental institutions. This is an easy win, and that's a rare thing in the policy world. You do it, then life is immediately better for every citizen.

If your answer is it's morally wrong because of individual rights, then believe me, being in a fully funded institution is far, far better for someone than living on the streets in their own filth, tortured by their inner mental demons, and in constant anguish over who knows what.

Their own families (when they can be found) want this for them as well. That's often why they are out on the streets—because they became too much for their parents/grandparents/brothers/sisters to deal with.

You're doing nobody any favors, nobody, by letting these people roam the streets in anguish, creating even more anguish.

[Flatirons Recovery @flatironscenter]

We had a blast at our annual staff holiday party! The white elephant gifts this year were next level!

We have so much gratitude for this amazing team and feel lucky to get to spend a fun evening with them!

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

Terrible news. Sending healing vibes to him and his family.

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse announces stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis https://t.co/pN3mep9SXT

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

Trent doesn’t seem like one to BS

[Coach Yac 🗣 @Coach_Yac]

Trent Williams with HIGH PRAISE for Brock Purdy:

“When you’re in that huddle, there’s only one voice speaking. You got 10 grown men staring at you. You can’t fool grown men. The confidence that he has in the huddle no matter what phase of the game, those long play-calls, just getting everybody where they need to be, from A to Z he does it at a really high level. I say it all the time, he’s a god send for us to get him where we got him in the draft. Obviously he’s getting what he deserves now, but he’s still the same guy from his rookie year. He’s just a baller, man.”

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

@stoolpresidente we’re alive!!!

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

Pretty terrible job of catching the ball by every Vikings receiver so far #Skol

[Sara @wolvestwtsara]

lose to Memphis Grizzlies hospital roster just to turn around and beat fully healthy OKC.

and that’s the Minnesota Timberwolves experience, baby.

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

@KevinGarnett5KG Hell yes

[Mark Oberg-Uris @markjoberg]

Cool guy. Fuck Puka.

[SB Nation @SBNation]

Puka Nacua’s Adin Ross appearance results in antisemitic touchdown dance promise https://t.co/jIu5JwGEKv