What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by? Maybe a few mantra I go by, seeking solace and super power and maybe a little certainty in things as I repeat often, “Love never fails”, “Persevere”, “Keep going forward”, “Half full, all good”, “God in all things”, Mind you, there are plenty of times these …
Author: jeff lud
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Give & Take
Give &take, That’s the best approach at the end of the day, give-and-take it’s the only way, Give-and-take it’s the only way when you find yourself on any given day in the mix with mixed attitudes, mixed expectations, Mexican communication, Given and taken the usual way in regardless of any other circumstance, at the end …
Boogie Balancing
Like riding a boogie board, just keep after it, For sure for sure it’s gonna be wet and wild sometimes, bumpy too, Too many people watching from the shore, gotta be in surf to feel it, Waves keep coming, crashing, hope’s not dashing tho’, you know the way from the waves, balancing all the while, …
Duties As Assigned
“Duties as a assigned”, a throw- away phrase in documenting job responsibilities, Throw-away until the pile on starts… When you have done a lot of things, when you can anticipate some across disciplines, when you (sometimes) fill in the gaps pretty well, You just do stuff to help the cause, like move those pallets off …
Proximity 
Proximity means how close one object person or thing otherwise is close to another person object or thing otherwise. In the particular context on my mind recently, it’s how people want to be close to the remains of their loved ones sometimes when they are remembering them. It’s curious. I visit the memorial park where …
A humble suggestion/SortaRrant/PSA 
This is a public service announcement, maybe a little sort of rant, maybe a humble suggestion… Feeling all these things in this moment, as I write this and so, When one is at a left-hand, turn signal light and stopped, one might be tempted to look at ones smart phone, And do any number of …
Don’t Be Lazy, DO
What are five simple exercises to do at home? Do these five things, you’ll be better off. Not that I listen to my own advice all the time, I struggle on the regular to do these things, But if you can do them every day, your body will, thank you, you’ll be happier, you’ll be …
65,000/70% 
Numbers matter. 65,000: The estimated people are currently under ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention in these United States . 70%: The percentage of those people detained that have no criminal record. No criminal record. And yet, against the policy Donald Trump campaigned on, against his stated goal and objective, the Trump administration is detaining …
Clarifier
This post, a random clarify on my intent with this blog half full all good. There are times when I post more politically sensitive comments on a given issue, that fits for me in the blogs theme and underlying purpose in this way, My intent is to find a little bit of Good a little …
Morally Gray
I must definitely say — and I’m not proud of me in this way but — like the hairs on my head and the whiskers on my chin, I am gray… And a bit more to the point, I’m morally gray. Just what does that mean? It means sometimes I choose the easier path, sometimes …
