Gratitude. The prime cornerstone, My ALPHA & OMEGA, Gratitude, for, My kids, My friends, from every era, My parents, My grandparents, My two ex-wives, My dear neighbors, The seven dogs I’ve lived with, The roof over my head, The food I have to eat, The clothes I have to wear, The safety I live in, …
Reminders: Five Days, Words, Day Four
Humor, cornerstone of daily life and sanity. There’s not a day goes by where I don’t chuckle to myself because of a circumstance I’ve experienced or mistake I’ve made. “…what the fuck, jeff how did that happen…” I say to myself on the daily. Humor is a superpower, and we all have it inside. Humor. …
Reminders: Five Days, Words, Day Three
Perseverance. The theme word for this post was going to be “parenting” … then I realized, a big part of parenting for me is perseverance (like other areas of my life), where it often seems the lessons and challenges and activities therein require fortitude, resilience, perseverance, at least for me, And so parenting, and work, …
Reminders: Five Days, Words, Day Two
Patience. This word names a practice that’s tough to master. It’s tough to master, but if you can find that sweet spot you’re SO much better off. Patience with yourself. Patience with your loved ones. Patience with your body. Patience with your circumstances. Patience with projects and progress and work and life. There’s much more …
Reminders: Five Days, Words, Day One
This blog again a form of therapy; I’ve been off work a week, headed back Tuesday; just long enough to almost forget work pace. Emotional week with the kids on a road trip; nearly 500 miles in four days; then back to a home improvement effort, painting the oldest kid’s room; a not-so sorta big …
Ratcheting Up
Feels like it’s time to be ratcheting up, my kids quickly aging, not feeling ready, Feels like it’s time to be ratcheting up, holding the line higher, if not me, who? Their mom of course, at her house, but what about my house, what about out in the world? Not ready, really not ready, time …
One Washer Load
Considering time-off work, extended leisure, vacation, and duration therein; here in the states we're not much for time away from the job, the career, the achieving, that Protestant work ethic still quite active in American Society. I for one say it gets tiring. And so getting time away from it all is all the more …
Pismo Lesson: Meet Them Where They Are
"Meet them where they are" ... good phrase, good attitude, good lesson. I've heard it used when talking about helping people in crisis, people unhoused, that sort of thing. A social worker might say, "...we meet them where they are to help establish rapport and a baseline of needs...", something like that. The phrase has …
Remembering Iggy
Remembering Iggy — Ignatius of Loyola — lived some 500 years ago, a Spaniard, a soldier, then a monk, mystic, and then theologian and author of the Spiritual Exercises (among other writings), and founder of the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order; This day his feast day in the Church, 31 July, as good …
Prove Yourself, Everyday
This from a FB fan page for the San Francisco Forty Niners, The message simple, the message clear, it’s the best way to be, consider yourself, Be humble, focused, determined to get better every day, “” 49ERS: RB Coach Bobby Turner, doesn’t care about the HYPE.. “I don’t care where you were drafted. Once you …
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