More on this interesting practice of sharing through blog writing. Curious to me that I also have a journal I write in from time to time, those most private of thoughts, tucked away, Curious to me the value and purpose I feel in sharing out, my struggles, my muse, and almost everywhere in between, Almost …
Occupational Hazard: Pinch, Pull, Poke, Slice
At face value, you might expect the hazard to be low, white collar work, it in the trades, Not so, not so. Material handling, the mental, the physical, makes the world go around. Not the builders or the makers but doers all the same, Thinking and counting and moving and finding, all these things, and …
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Five Fast
Not to go too deep, too fast, but time is something we all have to manage, I’ll have to respond to in someway, many of us every day, sometimes slave to the clock and the schedule. One of my favorite musicians is Getty Lee, of the legendary Canadian progressive rock band Rush . Getty said …
Strive To Align
If you could go back in time and give your younger self advice, what would it be? Oh my, this idea has been on my mind! As I enter into the last stretch of my primary career and the final horizon seems closer, thought comes to me more frequently, What could I have done differently? …
Disappointment? GOOD.
So SO fired up for the RUSH gig, this was my message to the peeps I was going with, “A quick primer to add the magic of the gig we’ll see this eve … just JLud’s dos centavos, A fifty-some year run of music and mastery, life and friendship, Neil and Alex celebrating their music …
Channeling Anxy
Channeling Anxy, my sometimes name for my often present anxiety, would that I could, would that I should, Should put more words to the page in effort to manage, channel, not cage, no rage, striving only to live together, co-exist better, Better together we can be if we work together, help each other, I listen …
The Write Purpose
Let’s take a moment to name a thing, or better stated, put some words around the thing, the muse, the why I write. One of two things generally happen, either, I’m writing about a thing that’s on my mind, an observation, a struggle, a thing I’m grateful for, and usually this writing comes in prose …
Hat Stacks
Hat stacks, a real thing in my world; stacks of hats found in various places in my house. Stacks of hats, usually between three and five lids, waiting for their turn on top of the noggin, All manner of color and logo, collected over six decades, mostly baseball-type hats, with a brim to shade the …
“I Remember Where I Parked“
I remember where I parked when I had this particular conversation. I was on the way home from work, nearly back into my neighborhood, when I got the call, or maybe it was a text first, It was from a good friend of my elder auntie, here was the gist of how it went on …
Good Karma Is An Attitude
Happened the other day. Again. I noticed in myself a silly practice I have. Going through a sort of complicated work process one early morning, I completed the first of say … maybe four steps … of a total of about thirty steps necessary to complete the task. Those first four steps give a pretty …
