Youngest feeling yucky, tummy troubles, no fun, Time to time she seems to have this situ, humbling, bumbling dad, me, trying to help, Her mom seems more successful therein, So there she sits over the commode, no wanting her bed or couch, too risky, Feeling yucky is sucky, no doubt.
Author: jeff lud
Dad x3. Writer. Lion. @pacbio SCM. One Mission: Make it GOOD | Optimism | Resilience | Fam/Life/Biz | #halffullallgood #goodstuff
Stuck
Got stuck? Work it. Don’t want to?! Rock and a hard place, no easy solutions to resolve. F*ck the feelings, gotta figure it out. Got stuck? Get through.
Down Under
Down under, but not Australia rather, The hallway that leads through the warren of rooms beneath the theater, magical place where things unbelievable happen on stage, But the rooms backstage, the rooms below, that’s where the magic forms, Just one dad of many parents, lucky enough to visit down under briefly recently, I love seeing …
All For One
“All for one”, the motto I’m pitching. Not Three Musketeers, no foolin’ , no bitchin’, Not trying to be crass or rude, don’t ya know, fundamental on “us” don’t ya know, The fam, the crew, four rolled to their one, five when we count mom, she’s the bomb, Main point is we help when we …
Mad Dash
When to make the mad dash? To where? To the end, the door, pillow, the punch line, the dinner check? Mad dash means we’re hustling, intent on the goal, reaching the end of the activity or activities that constitute conclusion… To finish the dishes, the meeting, the laundry, the showers, the bits of tidy to …
Historial Note: US Bombs Iran
On Saturday, 21 June, this happened. Here we go again.
Scratch The Itch
Tough not to, Scratch that itch, Lifelong struggle, makes me twitch, Skin crawling, no balling ‘bout it, Don’t like it one bit, to wit, I know tho’, gotta go slow, don’t throw caution to the wind, Sure thing I’ll dig in and scratch ‘til I bleed, ooo wee gotta leave it alone, Let it crawl …
The List Is Long
Who is your favorite historical figure? The list is long of folks I admire and learn from in the historical record, a few include, Marcus Arelius Lao Tsu Harriet Tubman Fredrick Douglass Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton Abraham Lincoln Mother Theresa Eleanor Roosevelt Albert Einstein Andrei Sakharov Winston Churchill John Steinbeck Jim Baker and of course, …
Cross The Street
Many metaphors for the same, dealing with change, the cliché goes, and wisely, nothing is constant in this world, but for change. There are big changes and little changes and changes in between, but the common thread is for everyone, change happens to everyone. And so I’ll pull another metaphor in, don’t be afraid to …
How Long?
“Juneteenth” , a US Federal Holiday? Since when? Four years now since this day - 19 June - was designated so, a formal holiday to remember and commemorate the day in 1865 when all enslaved people were declared free, emancipated, released and no longer subject to bondage, to slavery. It’s been 160 years since that …
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