Bloganuary Prompt: “What is the greatest gift someone could give you?” Not really a fair pic on my part. After all, it’s very difficult to give another person “time“… But at this point in my life, that’s what I must desire. More time with my kids, More time to write, More time with my friends, …
Blog_Gratitude_2023
Quick look back at 2023, even as we hit stride for 2024, Grateful for the visibility this blog gets — 64 (!) countries this past year, And so these ideas share, the GOOD that we further together when we share, it picks up momentum, the GOOD grows, And that’s what I aim to do and …
Good Ol’ SCU
Bloganuary Prompt: “What colleges have you attended?” I’m a native of Santa Clara, a smaller city next to a bigger city, San Jose, in the south part of the San Francisco Bay Area. As I was gearing up for college all those years ago, I was also growing up through adolescence. It was a tough …
When?
When is enough? When do we determine that we’ve done our best? When do we decide we’ve given sufficient extra? Blood? Sweat? Tears? Hours? TIME? When do we realize we have to care for ourselves first? When is it ok to feel good, instead of sacrificing? When do we realize that The Machine doesn’t care? …
Splashes of Play
Bloganuary Prompt: “ Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you? “ A month or so back one of my longest and best friends introduced me to the Puzzles Section on the New York Times app. My buddy suggested it was a good way to engage your mind after sleeping the …
Quiet House
Just now, quiet house. Kids were with me though the holidays — so blessed — now back to their mom’s house for the second week of Christmas Break. Quiet house, funny thing. I long for it much of the time, wish to have a little more quiet to get a little more of the everyday …
Balancing Bigs
Bloganuary Prompt: “What are your biggest challenges?” Funny, I’ve got at least a few things I could mention here (like most people?); but in summary, it’s about “balancing the bigs.” By “bigs” I mean, the big plates in my life I work to keep in the air every day, including, Work: Gotta earn a living, …
Let’s Start The Year Like This
Like this let’s start the year, prompts to energize and focus and persevere, those are good words to start actually, ENERGIZE FOCUS BELIEVE RESET BREATH GET OUTSIDE LOVE PAUSE BE PATIENT HAVE GRATITUDE MAKE IT GOOD MORE LOVE GOOD
Lazy Sundays, The Niners, and Grandma’s Recipe Book
“What makes you feel nostalgic?”Don’t get it much these days, rarely a free Sunday to laze, always big, little things I should be doing, but final Sunday of 2023, making an exception,The SF Niners on the early game, intentional, to actually sit and watch, the Fourth Quarter anyway, similar, remembering back when there was less …
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Coals To Ash, 2023
Thinking back, can almost not remember the beginning of the year, ‘23, Just how much happened? What just happened? So much, clouds my mind and memory, Gotta look back at photos in the roll and email to remember, ponder, wonder, what was it all for? ‘23 burned hot at times, too like every other, coals …
1/2_Full, All GOOD 