This guy, Businessman, Trailblazer, Unpredictable, a bit, Wealthiest person on earth currently, Special Government Employee, Senior Advisor to the President, Father of thirteen children (with four different partners), Spokesperson for DOGE, a special group within the Office of the President, Spectacle and Breaker of Things, Mega Donor to Donald Trump, That last one might explain …
Month: February 2025
Diminishing Returns
A basic concept and law in economics and in particular production processes, I think this law can apply in other ways as well; the the levers are labeled differently, the result is similar: At some point the output loses its optimal worth, its optimal value. And so it is. Find the sweet spot, that’s the …
Reflexive Ebb
It happened again the other day, a Sunday, a day that should have started filled with hope. Inexplicably, it did not start this way. As I came to conscious my spirit was at low ebb. So much to do, so many loose ends. And this at 7:57am. Reflecting further, maybe it’s quite explainable. After decades …
Long Dark Nights
I like long, dark nights. The longer the better. The kind of night where I go to sleep, and then wake up later, and it’s still before Midnight and my oldest is still awake, light from her room seen from under her door. I typically get up and go to the kitchen for a drink …
What is Church?
Occurred to me recently, many forms of “church”, maybe…and I say church because that’s my tradition, could be “mosque”, or “synagogue” just as well… The central themes of being with God, reflecting, celebrating, renewing, and community, COMMUNITY, that certainly is a center piece, with other people, finding God in others, be it one other, or …
Egypt Speaks, For Posterity
Such moments must never be forgotten, especially in this age of digital media and broadcast.
Celebrating Lucia!
Our third child, second daughter, my X Factor. She is three years and five days younger than the oldest, When she is riding high her energy is magical, outward, out of this world, overdrive, so alive, certain of her way, a little headstrong, my way or the highway she sorta says with a look, So …
These Writings
These writings, scribbled down in the small hours, and often in between, when the spark lights, The light goes on and I write it down, capture quickly, for me, for you, for them, These writings represent my life, experiences oft mundane, no disdain, just the tale, the trail I’m on, Captured, shared, in these writings, …
Lesson Learned
Recent lesson, a bit humorous to me, but also timeless instruction, captured here in a photo, Cutting material for a project last week, there were two parts that mirrored each other. The piece in the top was the left over from the first half of the job, the bottom from the second half, I estimated …
Toast!
Toast, that simple, reliable, food staple. So many breads, so many spreads, so many options for toast. Got a new toaster after about twenty years use n the last one, So today (and everyday!), Celebrating toast ~ more from Wikipedia below ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_(food)?wprov=sfti1#Consumption