Bits of a dream from the other night, Somehow I had a mixed purpose role, a patient with a familiar sense of the health workers on the unit, I seemed to know most everyone. One nurse or technician on the unit, this guy had to go to the bathroom (which wasn’t immediately near by, apparently), …
Category: attitude
Half Full, All GOOD, Ten Years In
On this day, 10 July, ten years ago, I started this blog. I was into my second marriage, our third kid had been born a few months earlier, I was working for the second employer of my career grinding away in the business world, and I desperately felt I had to get "the creative" in …
Living In The Swell
I'm no surfer, and I live about thirty-five miles from the Pacific Ocean ... but I appreciate and respect the true surf culture, and the related language and mentality therein ... maybe thus the idea came to me recently ... a concept that seems to fit my life ... "living in the swell." Don't think …
Try and Try Again
This my life, try and try again, Find my way, smooth or bumpy, People might get close, then some fall away, sad to see them go, Try to get it right, fits and starts, forward then back, back again, A grinder, but not a perfectionist, Easy not my way, more emotional sometimes than I’d like, …
Easy & Hard
Daily Prompt: “What could you let go of, for the sake of harmony?” Easy and hard at alternating clips, The one thing that seems to lead to harmony is compromise, And the one thing that is easily given up, totally in our control, is perfection, The hard part? When to insist more on perfection to …
Passing Thoughts
Passing thoughts across my mind’s eye as the day begins… Passing thoughts throughout the day, through ups and downs, my struggles, theirs, Passing thoughts flow through, some stay awhile, some barely pause, not recognized, a flash and then gone, Passing thoughts of things I need to do, forgot to do, wish I’d done, hope I’ll …
Nothing Days
Heat Wave these last several days in the Western US, more than five days plus 95F during the day, house just got below 80F for the first time early morning today, Thankful for a few days off as well, turn work brain down to pilot light, let time with the kids and friends come to …
The Fifth Of July
I feel compelled to convey these words, From Lincoln in 1863 at Gettysburg, Would that our United States of America never again face the full horror of that battlefield, Would that wiser, brighter, more steady minds guide us to avoid killing each other for our beliefs and preferences, And instead find a way for tolerance …
Snapshot: Candid Thoughts This Independence Day 2024
Let my kids sleep in as long as they like, Leftovers Brunch for everyone, Free reign to watch screen, Another hot day, Laundry started, halfway through, Needs to make cookies and salad for a pot luck this eve, Found a cool spot under a fan to scribble this down, Now, nap time, nap time, So …
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“We The People“
On this Fourth of July, Two Thousand and Twenty Four, remembering the opening words of the United States Constitution, the document that has provided the guiding principles for governance of the country for 237 years. “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, …
