Living in heaviness, a reality I still can’t quite get used to. Some ten years running now, how can it still be this way, Anyway, always mostly there, weighted vest, metaphor, more than real feeling, for sure, Some fifty years anxious, worried, willing to keep going, not always everyday, but most days, lurking, present, Presently …
Author: jeff lud
Dad x3. Writer. Lion. @pacbio SCM. One Mission: Make it GOOD | Optimism | Resilience | Fam/Life/Biz | #halffullallgood #goodstuff
Don’t Bring Me Down
Safe to say, this is a more repeated refrain of late… Since the political and economic winds have changed, and so many things happening all around, many many people suffering, matters often chaotic, And every time I hear Trump’s voice, his arrogance, and erratic manner, his lies, shifts, lack of decency and destructive ways from …
Coffee, So Much Good!
Death wish coffee Company, from Round Lake, New York. Vermont coffee Company from Middlebury, Vermont. Peace coffee company from Minneapolis, Minnesota. That morning elixir, so simple, so delicious, so many options! 
One Look: Self-Care
Most always or at least more often than not, feeling like I live on the hamster wheel, Pretty much always a long list to-do, the strappings of adulthood hang heavy around the neck, endlessness of what’s next. What’s next for me then when I feel laden down, my mood dulled by pace and priorities of …
Dong Re Lao, Let Them Come Home
Listening to a radio piece recently, it was telling the story of a team of searchers that work to bring home soldiers remains, who were MIA, or KIA during war time. The peace I was listening to was specific to the Vietnam war. The story featured a family a man now near 60, who was …
My May Day
For at least a couple months of May, in the last few years, I’ve done a haiku poem most days on this blog, The idea being May has the fewest letters of the months, and haiku is about short form, word, expression, So I thought it was nice change and a stretch and a good …
Let Me Tell You About Aphasia
Let Me Tell You About Aphasia… IT SUCKS. For the person who has it for sure; it’s also a constant catalyst for patience for those who communicate with that person. My mom has suffered this maddening condition for near 30 years, since she had a major stoke event; and she was quite the talker prior. …
Trail Therapy
Recent Sunday morning. Early out, at the parking lot before eight o’clock; the parking lots are nearly full. Grateful for a spot, and out on the trail I head. All shapes and sizes. All colors and materials. Some with clothing, looking to be straight from REI, others straight from a classroom, or work almost. I …
Another Bit Of Juxtapose
Just about five years back I wrote and published a piece entitled “Juxtapose”; just a little over five years ago, actually. We were about a month into the COVID-19 pandemic. My life at the time turned upside down not too long after; my marriage fell apart. The good news? My ex and I, we’ve continued …
It’s Been A Week
One week ago, who knew what was to come… After all, it was Easter Sunday, a very chill weekend of family, and then Monday hits, Pope Francis passed away at 88, My 87-year old mom fell at home, banged up her head, a couple lacerations, fractured wrist and ankle. Finding inspiration and gratitude reflecting on …
1/2_Full, All GOOD 