Sometimes micro efforts are all we can manage, and that’s ok, that’s enough. Just enough to get out of bed, Get ready to go to school, To work, Or out for a walk, Or to do the dishes, Or to do the next right thing, Or to make it through the next hour, Micro efforts, …
Author: jeff lud
Dad x3. Writer. Lion. @pacbio SCM. One Mission: Make it GOOD | Optimism | Resilience | Fam/Life/Biz | #halffullallgood #goodstuff
Stuck in Grace
More funny, not so funny, looking for grace. Stuck at the mall, micro shopping with my kids. I said 30 minutes. It was more like an hour. All good all good. I got there. My two mantras: 1/ This time I’d given them, needed to be there for them; experimental commercial, instructional. 2/ Lessons to …
Satisfied
My man Levi…also my son… 🙂 He’s ten years old, finding his way like all kids… He’s very thoughtful and sweet when he wants to be, when that motivation sneaks in…he can be quite the Hurricane as well… And sometimes his perspective, his insight, his word choice is just well, so awesome and creative and …
Four Questions
Got these four questions at the end of last week. DEEP. Need to reflect to see what my answers are. What are yours? 1/ Who Is God? 2/ Who am I? 3/ Who is my neighbor? 4/ What is my mission?
Funny Thing, Love Wins
Funny thing. I’m sort of an old dad. Perspective? When my grandpa was my age I was three. Juxtaposed, I’ve got a 12, 10, and 9 year old just now. Know I've shared that before, but it bears repeating, my crew, they're in the mix of it all growing up, sweet spot, sweet. Funny thing. …
Back to Basics
Didn't plan it this way, but that's how it turned out. So much seems this way with parenting and the muddled up, shook up world we sometimes -- often? -- find ourselves... Back to basics, settling in on what's right in front of you, not looking too far ahead, Dishes and laundry, breakfast and lunch, …
Water, Rain Down
What is your favorite drink? Fun prompt to finish the work week, tho’ not working for me, off on retreat, reset, rebirth, Washed clean by cool clear water, rain down, my favorite drink maybe too, Sure coffee, then beer, and plenty in between also some favorites, water the through line, common part, parcel of what …
Final Snippets from The Road
Recap: Week off to reset and spend time with my kids during their Winter Break. Road trip on the front end. Time with a few people, old friends that mean the world to me. The road itself. Therapy on wheels. The coast. So helpful. Soothing. Second half of the week, more self-care; some practical adult …
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Celebrating Black History Month: Herbie Hancock
Funny thing for me about this amazingly acccomplished jazz musician: I hadn't heard of him until he provided the music for a popular Eddie Murphy movie in the 1980's. Didn’t know he had decades of influéncialo music and work prior. Read more below, and thank you, Herbie! More about Herbie here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Hancock
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