I guess it started about 35 years ago, when it dawned on me, sunk in, that my buddy Pat Welsh and I had birthdays a day apart, he 3/23, me 3/22. Friendship forged during the college years, became immensely more powerful, enduring after college. He and me and three, four other guys, getting together pretty …
Category: Attitude
Live Long, Love Much
Live long, love much, simple mantra, reminder, for 3/22. Turning another page today, to fifty eight years old. This mantra means more now than ever before for me. Love much. LOVE MUCH. I want it to sink deep into my bones, ring true everyday. We don’t get to choose how long we live, we know …
Little Bits on Parenting
Summertime situation, interesting compare contrast comes up with respect to work, and children. Some folks bring their kid to work during the summer; one guy comes to mind from the company I work for. I know the guy has a couple kids, and during school breaks, like summer time, he brings his son to the …
That Little Voice
That Little Voice inside my head, whispers truth, whispers love, The other day, while driving in a local parking lot leaving a store, a car to my left, and I came to the same intersection point at the same time… We both paused, and then I decided to go forward, and through the intersection I …
How Much Was That Watermelon?!
“How much was that watermelon?!?” I found myself asking as I walked out of the grocery the other day. Shopping with the L’s (the younger two kids in my family), I asked them what fruit they would like… As we walk through the produce… L Number Two said, “watermelon! ”, And so we bought it. …
Daily Prompt: Train West to East, Car East to West
You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? What a great question this daily prompt… Considering the answer, lays the groundwork for my first months of retirement, Free to travel, with no set timeframe, bucket list item, perhaps above all others, to travel coast to coast through this vast land that …
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IRISH
My earliest memory of tribalism, In grade school it came up. I wasn’t anything obviously ethnic when the Italian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, German-Americans, Portuguese-Americans, and Chinese-Americans called out, Until I had the monicker of IRISH-American…really I’m an Anglo Mutt, but Irish is what rose to the top, and from then to today, that is my most immediate …
Repost: “A Core Human Value: Serving Those In Need”
One of my classmates from college runs a non-profit in the Pacific Northwest. The following is a recent post he shared on social media. His voice, this message, needs to be amplified. And so it goes: “ This is something that breaks my heart to acknowledge. But the hard truth is that there is increasing …
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Count
What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? Daily prompt, great fundamental lesson, different strategies, same purpose: Neutralize The Negative. My number one way, honed over many, many years, the simple act of counting, forcing a pause…a few seconds, maybe even minutes sometimes, allowing the moment and the negative feelings to exhaust, and …
Selfish Suffering
The moment before, a kid’s not feeling well, tummy troubles, always after everyone’s gone to bed, Suddenly the night’s thrown asunder, what to do?! Selfish suffering in-sews for me, silly jeff, Worried about my own sleep slipping away, rather than concern for my kid (who by the way seems mostly fine), And then in an …
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