Tidbit to end the month, real world, real time. Maybe a funny Jeff-twist to the message therein (isn’t that always the case…?), Posted on Facebook the other day about dishes piling in my sink, I generally clear the sink every day or so, but this week not so much, So many plates in the air, …

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Better part of 22 days running, 1500 mile road-trip on the front end, Lots of parenting, lots of work, uptick in charity hours, Common Cold all the while. Too many, too much depending to step off, too much in the clutch to beg-off, But making it to now, and a perfect transition day with one …

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Ideal situ, “collective cooperation”, ideal being the key word. Hard to come by sometimes. Most times? Big lift the other night. Several things went sideways, one of my kids in particular really struggling, collective corporation went fast away, way in the rear view. And then it’s just patience, focusing on voice, too, focusing on the …

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Beat it, The heat, the spread, the street, Goal to bed, Feeling beat? OUT.

Heard Lucinda Williams interviewed recently; amazingly rooted career; cross-over genres, country to hard to define as such; maybe sorta a Ben Harper - type American musician. Strong. Strike survivor too. STRONGER. She mentioned in the interview that sometimes she takes a few years to finish a song. That was the prompt for this post. I …

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It started last Wednesday… Kids to me for five days, Blessed but challenging too, Busy work per usual these days, Lions Vision Clinic meant four days of activity, lead up, days of, and post, Kids all along, a couple special kid-related activities on Monday too to cap it off…all the while work heating up again, …

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So humbled, many people spending many hours to help others, So grateful, several different Lions Clubs were in the mix, So many lessons for the next one, So GOOD, the first Lions Vision Clinic in the Silicon Valley… #weserve #lionsclubs

Shift, we do it most every day, Sometimes many times a day, One thing to another, Work, home, spouse, kids, friends, colleagues, Shift, from one thing to the next, it’s what we do, First Gear to Second to Third, Fourth, then back to Second, Laundry, Dishes, Kids’ Meals, Lions event signs, Lunch with old friends, …

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The essence of this blog is increasing good in the world. However that may come about. Sometimes I have some catch of phrase or idea that comes to mind I want to share, sometimes I stumble upon something I think is worth sharing. Here’s a case of the latter: “"True good fortune is what you …

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