Open letter to my kids, I know I’ve not been the most strict at parenting, but it’s time tighten things up, time to step up, time to pull your own weight. More to follow.
Category: Attitude
Saturday Stream
Stream of conscious after a heavy week, Tendinitis, hospice, fading life, forklifts, pallet-jacks, pallets, parts, boxes, anxiety, Epilepsy, new school year, Spam, bacon, rice, ESPP, summits, starvation, struggle, confidence, judgement, priorities, CCCP, Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Ukraine, shortages, more sleep, gin, more reading, loft beds, donations, Alzheimer’s, maturity, healthy diet, black tea, new coffee machine, dry …
No Time For Inertia
No time for inertia, no time to wait, waste, Not for a minute more, more than you can take, Take cold comfort in the fact that most face the same, Time would still be nice, a little more, maybe a lot, But not now, no no, not now, no time to wait.
Waiting for Death: A Brief Meditation
A brief meditation, waiting for death, My mom is dying, life slowly draining out of her, spark mostly gone, bed-ridden, helpless, Body failed, softly broken up nearly everywhere, Words now gone too, waiting for death, Be at peace mom, go when you’re ready, I just keep saying that, “Go when you’re ready”, and in peace.
Waiting for Death: A Brief Meditation
A brief meditation, waiting for death, My mom is dying, life slowly draining out of her, spark mostly gone, bed-ridden, helpless, Body failed, softly broken up nearly everywhere, Words now gone too, waiting for death, Be at peace mom, go when you’re ready, I just keep saying that, “Go when you’re ready”, and in peace.
Pursed Moments
Pursed lips, pursed moments, With increased frequency, my mini-way of pausing and coping, Over and over it happens with my kids, they have some remark I have no reply for, no doubt my own patience wearing thin, Thinly veiled virtue quite fragile, too fragile sometimes, So pursed lips my reply, like biting my tongue without …
Good Attitude
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? If I was to open a shop, it’d be a small store front. It’d somewhat akin to Lucy Van Pelt’s Advice Desk. I would sell one thing, really: Good Attitude. Like Positive AI. Like Jocko Willink says, “…Even if the situation is …
Juxtapose: Rick & Jeff
Finding the space, the place, to compare two individuals very different on the outside, but oh so similar on the inside, At least I think so. Four years and 12 days old, Rick is to me. Rick Rubin. Jeff Ludlum. He doesn’t know me; I’ve definitely come to know him. One-of-kind approach to a creative …
Fading Light
What to do in the fading light but be grateful for what you can still see? Be grateful for what you can still remember, My mom is under hospice case, her health decidedly on the wane since a fall on Easter Monday, ironic given the holiday, marking, celebrating a new beginning in a faith journey, …
Watching Her Fade
My mom is dying, slowly, certainly, Is it weeks or days, not sure, but she’s on her way. Hospice activated a couple months back, interest in life on the ebb, permanent, now more waiting to depart, it seems, No more folding tissues, working the remote, no no, no more, Sat with her last night for …
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