Captured for the record, A brutal dictatorship falls, uncertainty fills, but first joy.
Author: jeff lud
Dad x3. Writer. Lion. @pacbio SCM. One Mission: Make it GOOD | Optimism | Resilience | Fam/Life/Biz | #halffullallgood #goodstuff
Bed Before Eight
Bed before eight, isn’t it great! Such a good feeling and reeling and reeling, spinning wheels and deals, trying to keep up, Up to my neck, to the very top top, such a good feeling to let it all drop, Drop into bed and under the sheets, sure upon sure there’ll be nothing to keep, …
Mantras
Mantras. Mantras repeated daily, maybe even more often, keep us centered, focused, moored to our values. Embrace them, use them, allow them to empower you, GOOD.
Pop Music
Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Ferrell, Dave Matthews, The Jonas Brothers, Beyoncé, you get the idea… All popular musicians, very successful with their music. Then listening to an NPR interview, “Classical California”, and hearing the inspiration and activities of one Jonathon Heyward, a contemporary American classical composer and director… He mentioned that Mozart’s music …
Just Enough Beans
Just enough beans - coffee beans, that is - to see me to the end of the week, just maybe, If I play my cards right, If I sip my coffee right, If I mix my Cold and my Hot just right, Lesson learned, make the turn, a little more goes a long way of …
SLO-MO
Slow motion, such a notion, would that it will be this way each time, Each time the pressure mounts and demands pile on, On we must go, all the same, Slow motion experience, one thing after the other, do, Do your best, each step, Clarity, Focus, Breath, Repeat, Repeat, Slow Motion, Slo-Mo, GOOD.
Fitful, But Ready
Long holiday weekend, grateful. Rest, sleep seem fleeting, fitful, Believe we can find the path forward, hopeful, Resolved, resilient, ready.
Channeling Sharansky
Natán Sharansky is an Israeli politician, activist, and author. He is also an bona fide inspiration. Born into a Jewish family in the then Soviet Ukraine, in the city of Donetsk, he was a child chess prodigy, studied at a math & physics secondary school, and graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology; …
Donner’s Advice
Such an interesting and insightful bit. Donner's Advice Dutch [chess] grandmaster Jan Hein Donner offered the following advice to a player taking a board at a simultaneous exhibition: If you are to stand a chance of scoring a half or a full point, there are a few things to bear in mind: Be sure to take special …
Theoretical to Real – An Honorable Exit
When I was in college I took a philosophy class that among other topics, considered the ethics of euthanasia. It was theoretical 35 years ago; it’s quite a bit more real now. Elders all around aging, their loved ones, facing those choices, In the end I come back again and again to, Honor their wishes …
