Stricken with selfishness, how to respond? Seems to me most often the choice is clear: put the selfishness aside and be for others. Some (many?) might say, “You’re not responsible for other people’s happiness!”, and “Don’t be a pleaser, it’s not what you’re supposed to be…!”, But I say, Be for others, Help others, Lift …
Author: jeff lud
Dad x3. Writer. Lion. @pacbio SCM. One Mission: Make it GOOD | Optimism | Resilience | Fam/Life/Biz | #halffullallgood #goodstuff
Piled High
Emotions piled high, letting the weight settle, Ten days of go, to decision and loss and sadness and alone, Our last canine, remaining sister, her time to end, to heart stop, eternal sleep, house quiet, heavy. Ten days plus 556 days since the family changed, two households now, split, solo dad era established, Adjusted ok …
Minimal Practice
So hard to unplug, disengage, Maybe something simple that could be done should be done by someone else, ends up you, And so minimally engage, limited login, Just to report, run the numbers, how much to tell from numbers alone, Practicing minimal, We’ll see alone, what is, fleeting, GOOD.
Waiting Too Long, or Too soon? R.I.P. Mia
Maybe it’s human nature, avoiding things that are difficult, waiting longer than needed to do the undesirable. Or rushing to decide, to end the angst of try moment. It’s probably always better to “get it out of the way”, do that thing you don’t want to do as soon as possible. Unless…unless it’s ending the …
Places
Places we put stuff, repeated, kept safe. Case in point, your eyeglasses, if you happen to wear them, if you happen to ever take them off during the day. As for me, I take them off at home regularly, not so much at work. Around the house, a few typical spots, on repeat, so I …
To the Mountains
Respite, long awaited, showing them another way, living a slower way, Beloved mountains, fresh air, sounds a wild, few street lights, a step out, away, away, What will the stars tell us, the trees, what will they say, how will we play? Stay my heart, my calm, be so, whisperers only in the night, and …
Irritant
Another title for this piece might be “pain in the ass” , or legs, to be more precise I’ve been dealing with some sort of skin issue on my legs for a few days now. Thought it was sun-related maybe; then I thought maybe a plant or insect bite allergy. Still not sure. Whatever the …
Remembering Grandma
Funny what comes to mind in the middle of the night, Remembering Grandma, my mom’s mom, Crossword puzzle doer, pie maker, diligent life-long partner, Tiny Italian from The Indian Territories of what became Oaklahoma, Middle of the night waker-upper, Person to write about at 1 AM… Miss you, Grandma.
Wow
Into the frey, unleashed child madness, random, joyful, unchecked, WOW. Kids enjoying the happy torment of those around them, the free-style form of summer vacation, crazy chaos all around, WOW. Unsure, accessing, the response must be commiserate to actions and audience, pause, consider, WOW.
The Declaration of Independence
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and …
