Visited an old friend recently. He lives up on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. Great fun, catch-up conversations, random topics, easy chats, good food, bevies, some live music, good night’s sleep… All of this amounted to a nice reset for the soul, Rooted. Too, rooted in names and places, my buddy, Euro-Alpine origins generations, …
Category: Attitude
Late-Night Brain Wanderings
Sometimes late into the night if you wake up the brain starts to wander. Depending on the obligations the next day, this turns out to be either an unplanned stresser of lost sleep, or safe but reckless feeling-lark. As I lay down the base of the draft for this post it is a bit of …
Self-Care, Part Two
Considering more about self-care, more about what's ok, what's not, What has to be ok is taking care of yourself, looking after your needs, listening to you head, your heart, "To thine own self be true", so the saying goes, if not each of us true to ourselves, What is there? What is there? Carve …
Self-Care, Part One
Self-care, is it selfish...sometimes hard to say, for me anyway. So focused on others...colleagues, kids, friends, work, bills, keeping up with the day to day and week to week, Hard to say, with such a list, hard to say it's ok to "just look after one's self"...hard to say for me, sometimes, Hard to say …
Get The Funk Out
Funk can be good or no so good, depending on the meaning intended. Whoozy light-headed blah, doldrums, out of sorts, not so good. Funk like the music vibe, really really good sometimes. Recently for me, I was feeling the former; weird, odd, funky. Fuzzy whoozy brain. Bumpish night with the kids. LSleepy. Fortunately a little …
So Long August…
Waved goodbye to August yesterday, another month in the bag. 2022 seems to accelerating in the second half of the year. My work buddy / colleague, SAL — in addition to being a veteran Supply Chain Guy — is a commercial fisherman. He sent a couple pics yesterday eve from just off the California Coast, …
R.I.P., Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev
One of my earliest young adult memories was considering the craziness of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, the nuclear arms race, and the strategic military/political policy of “mutually assured destruction.” Indeed, that conflict was the main reason my college degree was in Comparative Politics and History. Thanks to Mikhail …
Sleep The Escape
Several times in my life, maybe much of my life, I’ved used sleep as an escape. It allows me to suspend the struggle, the anxiety, the effort. But even as I love to sleep, especially in periods of particular struggle and change, my very being, deep down, pushes me back out, Out of the darkness …
Following Instructions
We learn to follow instructions at a young age. It’s how we learn most everything: some one shows us how. I recall building model airplanes as a kid. I remember looking at the bag of parts, the instruction sheet, and thinking, “This seems hard.” Going step by step wasn’t easy for me. Reading the instructions …
Bonus Post, Gratitude
When good things happen share the gratitude like, Pancakes and waffles coming together promptly this morning for Sunday kids’ breakfast; My bro giving me a ride to pick up my car at the shop this morning; Quick stop at the grocery to buy a few things went smooth, got what we needed; My home plumbing …
1/2_Full, All GOOD 