Sometimes it’s ok to go the easy route. In fact, it’s the smart thing to do if you know the outcome will be to your liking. If you take the tried and true path, it might also afford you more time for other things; maybe those new and more challenging things you haven’t gotten to. …
Month: March 2020
Romance Sprinkled Respite
Gratitude to start the week. Gratitude to start every day. Extra bunch of grateful just now, after a short weekend escape sans children. Grateful to my beloved for planning it. Grateful for the support for the kids so we could get away. Grateful for living so close to a very different, wild, and beautiful place. …
Good Where You Least Expect
How to discern good, how to find it, especially during difficult times? How to hear the truth above the din of naysayers? The reading from the Gospel of John 7, one of the phrases stands out for me: “...no prophet arises from Galilee...”, said the Pharisees of Jesus. This was in response to some saying, …
Inspirations, COVID-19 Sequester Week Two
Low simmer of stress. Emotional ups and downs for sure. Overall Family Goal: Adapting, accommodating, making the best of the circumstances. Second week, the whole family home for work and school and life and staying safe. Keep life going forward for two adults and three little kids. The Community Goal: “Flatten the Curve” and stay …
COVID19: Listen to the Science, Stay Home
[from 03/24/2020 news update] I live in one of the so-called “hot-spots” for the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States: Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Depending on where you draw the boundaries, we have about 5 million people in the are; there are more than a million in our county alone. …
Lyrics Post: “Pokémon Theme”
Over and over I listen to this with my son. It’s kinda catchy. (originally by Jason Paige) “I want to be the very bestLike no one ever wasTo catch themIs my real testTo train themIs my cause(Ooh)I will travel across the landSearchin' far and wideEach PokémonTo understandThe power that's inside(Power inside) PokémonIt's you and meI …
WFH
From my own little corner of the Work From Home (WFH) World -- in between the laundry area and the hot-water heater, my own standing desk work space -- a few thoughts to share. Or more like a list to share, actually. 1/ Make your work space comfortable, welcoming (to you), and quiet. 2/ Be …
Shelter-In-Place: Home Life, Work Life, and COVID19
I had a conversation a while back with my brother, a successful business guy in HR/Talent Acquisition. He's got plenty of experience working with teams around the world for various companies; the key, common denominator is that his "work day" pretty close to 24 hours, given where the people he supports live and work. In …
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Outside, Inside, Cope, Persevere
Words to the page to chronicle this time, find some pause, some answers. Never before have we been in a place like this, time like this, everything upside down, uncertain. Like war-time; our people throughout our nation’s lands, East to West, North to South, threatened by disease, a plague. Think about what's outside, what's inside. That's …
Celebrate the Day
Thankful for this day, whatever it may bring. Thankful to be here, where ever here is. Thankful for all that I've seen, experienced, been. Thankful for all that I will see, will experience, will be. My faults, my mistakes, my selfishness, may it all wash away. May I start this day, and make this day, …
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