Life Lesson Five Take The High Road. You’ll thank yourself later. People will eventually and more and more often, find themselves in situations where emotions and stakes are high and you’re in a position to do two things. Continue to engage with your adversary as they try to drag you down the low road into……
Category: Personal
Thoughts, events and news about me. Probably the least-used category, hopefully.
Police are Good
Life Lesson One Police are good. I’m starting things off in no particular order, but this first being a lesson I found myself teaching Cecelia the other day when playing Legos. We have no lack of legos and Lego people around here, and we enact play situations by building buildings, restaurants, hospitals, playgrounds, or whatever……
Don’t Rush to Judge People and Circumstances
Life Lesson Four Do some mile-walking first Similar to previous lessons but entirely different, is what to do when it comes time to judge people, and circumstances when making decisions. No one should go around being judgemental, but there are times when it’s necessary in order to size up things and make choices. Usually, three……
Don’t Buy Into The Hype
Life Lesson Three Sleep on it. This lesson has to do with standards, which you yourself set. Don’t let others set them for you or tell you what they should be. That said, set them higher than you believe you can achieve but are realistically attainable. That’s the trick. Only you will know where your……
Don’t Jump on Bandwagons
Life Lesson Two Be true to yourself. https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/feb/13/at-arms-length-are-tattoos-finally-becoming-uncool Throughout my life, I’ve been a misfit. Didn’t quite fit in with this crowd, didn’t form with that crowd. It’s a search I think every person undertakes whether they want to admit it or not, but it’s obvious when you just have a look around. People are……
Life Lessons
Since I’m around my daughter 50%, or less, of her life these days, there are things which I’ll always feel are important to have her learn, with or without my assistance. {Note: As of May, 2021, Cecelia’s mother arranged things so I only see her 1 hour per week, supervised, at my cost. If I’m……
Look Out 2019!
Here are some things I’m thinking about as we enter into a new futuristic year, where I couldn’t have imagined what it would be like back in the 1980’s. Some things have moved faster than expected, some more slowly, some have failed to emerge and some have shifted into the still unfathomable. I just finished cleaning……
Ain’t Life Grand?
I’m sitting here after just getting back from a Christmas party, reflecting on this year’s Christmas versus last year’s. And I’m feeling very grateful and counting my many thanks. Although last year I still had my sweet dog Annie by my side, right now I have another dog I’m watching laying beside me. And a……
My Big Night Out
I went to see a Grateful Dead cover band play tonight at a bar/”concert hall,” which I’d been to before but decided to venture out to alone tonight. My daughter is away for Thanksgiving holidays, for TEN days, which is absolute insanity for a parent to legally be away from their child, but that’s the……
Let Us Give Thanks
It will be Thanksgiving in one hour, Eastern time, and although I’m sitting here by myself, it would be hard to recall the last time I was this much at peace and feeling grateful. I make an attempt to remind myself regularly during the day of all the things I should be grateful for, but tomorrow’s……