When I was in college I took a philosophy class that among other topics, considered the ethics of euthanasia. It was theoretical 35 years ago; it’s quite a bit more real now. Elders all around aging, their loved ones, facing those choices, In the end I come back again and again to, Honor their wishes …
Month: November 2024
Default: Gratitude
There’s this retired Navy SEAL, turned leadership consultant, turned author turned amazing human being… Wait… He was always an amazing human… Part of the mindset that he proposes is “default: aggressive” … and while I get it, sort of, I’m not down with that. For me, it’s default: gratitude. Gratitude is part of the fabric …
Choices
There’s this song by E-40, a semi-famous rapper from the San Francisco Bay Area, It’s called “Choices”… It’s a whole list of two part choices, things we might choose in life; if you like rap music it’s a good one. And even if you don’t like Rut sorta music, we all have choices. The main …
Blog Like A Tweet: 6 Chocolate Chip Cookies
6 Chocolate Chip Cookies, fueled six hours of my day, chocolate chip cookies, the only way. #goodstuff #goodeats
Lions Feed The PEOPLE
The need is real. The statistics are sobering. Right here in one of the most affluent counties in California, maybe even the whole of America, People go without, children are hungry, families need help to put food on the table. Since 1979 the DeAnza Lions have helped to feed the people for the Thanksgiving holiday. …
Lions FEED The People
For 45 years, the Cupertino DeAnza Lions Club has held an annual Thanksgiving food drive. From the beginning to now, we have grown the project to feed about a thousand people each year for the holiday. Here’s how we do it. An empty gathering hall, some good organization and creative thinking by many Lions, and …
LIONS Feed The People, Again
Lions clubs of the world. 1.4 million Lions, 45,000 clubs, +200 countries. Where there’s a need, there are Lions. Here in the Santa Clara Valley, for more than 30 years, feeding over 100 families for Thanksgiving, now up to over 170 families, and through other channels, with the same project, feeling about 1000 people for …
Red Screen
“ Red in the morning, sailors, take warning…”
Word Power: Cut, Nick, or Slice
Recently in cut my right thumb will loading some boxes; didn’t stop bleeding without direct pressure for a long while. Describing the incident later To my kids, I noticed the difference in reaction I got depending on which word are used to describe the action that created the injury. Nick seems the most minimal… it …
Default GRATITUDE
Most days I wake up, I try to start the day of gratitude. That gratitude runs the spectrum, big things small things I just try to focus what I am grateful for, list them out. They can be serious things often times seem to be, big life things, But they are also every day, simpler, …
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