9 hours of work when your contract says 8? Brussel sprouts when you really prefer broccoli? 8 hours of sleep when you really only need 7? 9 cookies when the serving size is 3? 3 kids instead of 2, or 1, or zero? I suspect it's too much, and not enough, all at the same …
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Juxtapose
Side by side we go through life. So many different ways this plays out, consider these few. Unless we choose the hermitic life, we strive to live with others. Friends, colleagues, even strangers, we go through this world side by side. If we're lucky, there's even that ONE special, other person with whom we share …
PSA on COVID Pandemic, From NPR News
What's It Going To Take To End The Shutdown? 5 Keys To Containing Coronavirus https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/16/834555288/whats-it-going-to-take-to-end-the-shutdown-5-keys-to-containing-coronavirus?sc=18&f=1001
Not All Peaches & Cream
Feeling the flip-side acutely just now. Rough night on a couple levels, one kid in particular, Number 3, she lost her frickin' mind as the evening waned. It put a thick coating of woe on everyone. The other two seemed no worse for the wear. Me, not so much. Foul mood to bed, never a …
Easy Is OK
Sometimes it’s ok to go the easy route. In fact, it’s the smart thing to do if you know the outcome will be to your liking. If you take the tried and true path, it might also afford you more time for other things; maybe those new and more challenging things you haven’t gotten to. …
Good Where You Least Expect
How to discern good, how to find it, especially during difficult times? How to hear the truth above the din of naysayers? The reading from the Gospel of John 7, one of the phrases stands out for me: “...no prophet arises from Galilee...”, said the Pharisees of Jesus. This was in response to some saying, …
Inspirations, COVID-19 Sequester Week Two
Low simmer of stress. Emotional ups and downs for sure. Overall Family Goal: Adapting, accommodating, making the best of the circumstances. Second week, the whole family home for work and school and life and staying safe. Keep life going forward for two adults and three little kids. The Community Goal: “Flatten the Curve” and stay …
COVID19: Listen to the Science, Stay Home
[from 03/24/2020 news update] I live in one of the so-called “hot-spots” for the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States: Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Depending on where you draw the boundaries, we have about 5 million people in the are; there are more than a million in our county alone. …
Shelter-In-Place: Home Life, Work Life, and COVID19
I had a conversation a while back with my brother, a successful business guy in HR/Talent Acquisition. He's got plenty of experience working with teams around the world for various companies; the key, common denominator is that his "work day" pretty close to 24 hours, given where the people he supports live and work. In …
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Outside, Inside, Cope, Persevere
Words to the page to chronicle this time, find some pause, some answers. Never before have we been in a place like this, time like this, everything upside down, uncertain. Like war-time; our people throughout our nation’s lands, East to West, North to South, threatened by disease, a plague. Think about what's outside, what's inside. That's …
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