Category: Life

Flies by so quickly.

By extension forty years must fly by quickly as well.

or Seventy!

There are many things to be thankful for.

Does a conscious gratitude of time make one better at spending it?

To make a recommendation requires confidence in the product and one’s knowledge of the person you’re talking to.

It’s not that big of a deal when it comes to a meal at a restaurant perhaps, but for something bigger?

Do you care enough to nudge your buddy out of inaction?

Do you really want to risk your reputation nd relationship on it?

You could be wrong after all.

Or you might be right.

One week went by without exercise.

Work, kids, sleep, eat…but no movement.

It seems to me that the art of balancing life is to be so imbalanced at any given time that you fully focus on the most important task at hand.

To make the important more urgent than the seemingly urgent.

But dang, those drawings won’t redline themselves.

I had to do some difficult work for the first time. It wasn’t easy. Nerve-wracking even.

I guess they call that learning.

I bet it will be a lot easier the second time.

But I suspect they hire you precisely because you will go through it that first time.

I know it’s cliche, but it seems worth mentioning every time it happens. The difference between the second and third place vote getters in the Las Vegas Ward 3 primary was 5 votes.

Number three goes home, while number two gets to duke it out with number one in the general election.

FIVE votes.

Do it.

I’d like to think I have a complete game.

But I don’t.

When I cup my hands, things will still slip through.

Sometimes the harder I grip, the more things slip.

So the question is how do I mitigate it?

There are those who are the face of a group. And there are those who make it run.

Sometimes it’s all wrapped up in the same person, but I’ve usually seen these roles shared among different people.

For better or worse, it is the way of the world to give the figurehead all the glory, but do not discount the heart within the organization.

We spent the day cleaning out the house so it would be ready for rental.

Later that evening I went through my books and pulled out Akira and Sandman. It’s been much too long since I re-read them.

I wonder who I’ll view these books now that my world has changed.

But I don’t think it’s a random coincidence both happened on the same day.

Closing and re-opening are the function of a door.

We had a friend in town who was trapped an extra day due to flight cancellations, and he ended up stayed with my parents for the night.

While he was grateful for the hospitality, the honor was ours, especially given the additional opportunity to hang out a little more than we would have otherwise.

Maybe it’s an old world view of hearth and home, or maybe it’s just the plain old saying it’s better to give than to receive.

I saw the photo of the founder on the wall of his teachers.

The greatest honor the school could give.

No one wanted to grant this so soon.

But it was no one’s choice.

The wheel of life keeps turning.