Daily Prompt: “List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.” 1/ Music is good for you. 2/ Reading expands your perspective. 3/ Sleep is healing. 4/ Exercise is necessary. 5/ Drinking water is essential. 6/ Gratitude in everything. 7/ You can always choose your attitude. 8/ B.L.T’s are yummy. 9/ Beer is best cold. …
Month: July 2024
Own Your Scroll
Scrolling through screens, such is part of life these days for many, many folks, Betcha the screen most often is less than three inches by 5 inches, hand-held, always in-hand computer most still refer to as "my phone" ... Scrolling takes many forms, these come to the fore most quickly, Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), dating …
Swifties
Special stuff makes life a little more memorable. Like Taylor Swift Dance Camp for our youngest. She really wanted to go. One week. 10 girls. Modest performance at the end in one of the studio dance rooms. MAGIC. #TaylorSwift #Swifties #dadlife #dadslife #daughters
Teen Therapy
Not for her, for me. Our oldest. First-born. Daughter. Numera Una. Just into the "teen years", and all in all, NOT a major shift; she's responsible, hip, thoughtful, sharp (of mind, GOOD; of tongue, Umm -- I'm learning). So when I say "Teen Therapy" I mean not so much for her -- she seems to …
Comedy Stream: On The Ward
Bits of a dream from the other night, Somehow I had a mixed purpose role, a patient with a familiar sense of the health workers on the unit, I seemed to know most everyone. One nurse or technician on the unit, this guy had to go to the bathroom (which wasn’t immediately near by, apparently), …
Half Full, All GOOD, Ten Years In
On this day, 10 July, ten years ago, I started this blog. I was into my second marriage, our third kid had been born a few months earlier, I was working for the second employer of my career grinding away in the business world, and I desperately felt I had to get "the creative" in …
Living In The Swell
I'm no surfer, and I live about thirty-five miles from the Pacific Ocean ... but I appreciate and respect the true surf culture, and the related language and mentality therein ... maybe thus the idea came to me recently ... a concept that seems to fit my life ... "living in the swell." Don't think …
Try and Try Again
This my life, try and try again, Find my way, smooth or bumpy, People might get close, then some fall away, sad to see them go, Try to get it right, fits and starts, forward then back, back again, A grinder, but not a perfectionist, Easy not my way, more emotional sometimes than I’d like, …
Easy & Hard
Daily Prompt: “What could you let go of, for the sake of harmony?” Easy and hard at alternating clips, The one thing that seems to lead to harmony is compromise, And the one thing that is easily given up, totally in our control, is perfection, The hard part? When to insist more on perfection to …
Passing Thoughts
Passing thoughts across my mind’s eye as the day begins… Passing thoughts throughout the day, through ups and downs, my struggles, theirs, Passing thoughts flow through, some stay awhile, some barely pause, not recognized, a flash and then gone, Passing thoughts of things I need to do, forgot to do, wish I’d done, hope I’ll …
1/2_Full, All GOOD 