Simplest joy, Follow the whim. Wake, sip, read, doze, Do as required, as you please, Pleased to just be, to follow the whim.
Category: Attitude
Inner Voice
Nearly constant, my inner voice, since I was a kid. But it’s not so inner. I find I talk to myself quite regularly, Self dialogue, commentary, guidance, narrative, chatter chatter chatter. I wonder sometimes, “Is this normal? Do other folks do the same?” Not sure. But that inner voice, my inner jeff, it keeps me …
Choices
We often encounter situations that we don’t expect and otherwise didn’t plan for. Big or small, things happen. It’s in these moments that our preparation and our personal character come to the fore. I offer this reminder frequently. I remind my kids (and myself) that sometimes things happen we don’t expect; sometimes we’re caught off-guard; …
Chatter
Listen to them fill in the final moments before sleep, Topics not touched on prior, squeeze every last this and that on any particular thing, A few more breathes of words to fill in the cracks after the lights have gone down, I mildly lament, a stubbornly resist, and then I let it run, them …
Adjust
I was running an errand the other night after work. As I headed home the truck started to smoke under the hood. I pulled over on a side street, parked, shit off the engine, got out opened the hood, and just about then the serpentine belt broke. Now there’s a tow truck and the mechanic …
Long Game, Love Wins
Through it all, love wins. Ups and downs, wins and loses, in the end, if you love, if you were love, you win. It might no be as you you hoped, as you wished, as you imagined, but if you have love, you win. And so don’t lament the short game, don’t be disheartened by …
Roll On
Roll on, John C., Quiet champion, Endlessly generous, Salt of the Earth Guy, 300 / 800 Guy, Now Stockton Bowling Hall-of-Fame Guy too. Honored, humbled, thankful to witness the moment. Most all of the family there too. Shirley Temples for the kids crew too. GOOD.
Roll On
Roll on, John C., Quiet champion, Endlessly generous, Salt of the Earth Guy, 300 / 800 Guy, Now Stockton Bowling Hall-of-Fame Guy too. Honored, humbled, thankful to witness the moment. Most all of the family there too. Shirley Temples for the kids crew too. GOOD.
Snippets: 20 June 2022
It’s all about Lionism, however you support it. 20 yard chip in - first time for everything Eagle Remembering Dad Lionism - Charity Golf - Raising Money To Help Others
Easy Rapport
Not sure what the dictionary says, but I’d define “rapport” thus: “Ability and consensus between people to get along; having an affinity, one to the other helps this condition;.” My three kids and I got together with a good friend and her family the other day after work. My kids and theirs had never met. …
1/2_Full, All GOOD 