Yup, you guessed it, it’s 4:00 o’clock in the morning of another medically induced insomniac experience, and I’m pondering once again; this time the last year of what has seemed like Life: Unscripted, life on hold, life stalled, life constrained by physical limits, life lived fearfully rather than joyfully. And finally, it’s time to get on with life joyfully, more scripted, or at least intentionally. I can do this!
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20240101 – Contemplating Joy
It’s a new day of a new month of a new year and I find myself contemplating a piece of wisdom a very dear friend offered in response to one of my recent musings, find joy in the simple things. Her approach really helps when you’re struggling mightily to hold on to hope in the midst of deep and serious … Continue reading →
20231229 – Finding My Purpose, the Main Thing
Continuing some thoughts from yesterday’s musings about life: unscripted, it seems important to elaborate on how I fill the unscripted part of my day(s) in ways that might not be so unscripted after all. I think it’s really important for all of us, and particularly those of us who are faced with situations that may dramatically affect the predictability of … Continue reading →
20231228 – Life: Unscripted
I awakened this morning thinking about how different my life is now compared to just one year ago. I’m by nature a planner. In business I always approached things with the philosophy ‘plan your work, work your plan’. They taught us in business school fifty years ago the key management functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling (the command … Continue reading →
20231222 – Family Lessons from The Hallmark Channel
Here we are again, deep in the throes of another steroid-induced insomnia night, but this time it’s a good thing. Why? I’m surrounded by my sleeping family, all of them (well, the immediate family as we think of ourselves)! My wife is in the next room; my son and daughter in law are at home next door, and my daughter, … Continue reading →
20231126 – Hi Elsie!
I was washing the breakfast dishes this morning and all of a sudden, there she was, my three and a half year old granddaughter Elsie Rose, just watching and expecting a conversation. So I told her about how excited I was for Christmas, when her cousins would be here having fun and opening presents. I told her a little about … Continue reading →
20231107 – Steve
Steve is a “little while friend”. The term harkens back to a book my daughter read many years ago about friendship and long term versus little while friends, those we meet and become close to for a short time, like on a camping trip or at summer camp. We met after a summer concert at Cannonsburg Ski Area back in … Continue reading →
20230929 – Connections
Here we are again, you and me, in the wee small hours of the morning. It’s almost 4:00 and I haven’t been able to sleep much; worrying about my friends and my neighbors tonight just leaves me unable to clear my head and sink into the comfort of a deep sleep.
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