Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turnDoing it all by hand,'Cause when everything is handed to youIt's only worth as much as the time put inIt all just seemed so good the way we had itBack before everything became automatic As we enter into our third week of self-isolation, sheltering in place, social distancing, whatever…
Automatic
Social beings
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, that one should preserve it.Anais Nin Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay Much has been, is being, and will be written about what is currently happening in our world right now. If you're looking for answers from me, I'm fresh out. But I have been…
Do you think I will graduate?
It doesn't seem like that long ago...in fact, for me it was in a professional development class I took only a week or so ago...when we were talking about how anyone under the age of twenty today was not born when we endured the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. When we talk about things…
Are we immunized?
Immunize (verb) im-yuh-nahyz, ih-myoo-nahyz to make immuneto render harmless or ineffective, to neutralizelaw: to grant immunity (as to a witness) There is a powerful scene in the HBO series John Adams where Adams' wife, Abigail, sees the 1775 smallpox epidemic wreaking havoc in her community. Her husband was away serving in the Continental Congress and…
Walking by faith
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. Billy Graham It's days like today that I am so grateful to have been raised by people who had been guided by their faith…
Hear me roar
The winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election will not be a woman. (Well, unless Tulsi Gabbard has a heck of a surge, I suppose.) I was offline most of the day in a meeting, but once I got to the airport I had time to review what had happened in the news today. Elizabeth…
The power of owning up and owning it
A gift of age and life experience is the opportunity to view things in the fullness of time. Within a year of my college graduation, the Challenger blew up and fell out of the sky and the oil business in Houston sank like a stone. It was a heartache for the city I had chosen…
But thanks anyway, Boomer
It's interesting being "of a certain age" in an industry (and a world, in some ways) that seems obsessed with youth culture and "how do we attract and retain recent college graduates?" I'm now in the strange (for me) world of being one of the oldest people in the company that employs me, and that's…
Sisters and seasons
Kelly and Kim, 1967 That’s the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they’re far wiser than the elder ones could ever be. Gemma Burgess Today is my sister's birthday. We live too far away from each other to see each other as…
Pruning
It's been a warmer winter than usual, so the rose bushes were already starting to show some new growth and the beginning of buds at the end of their straggly winter branches. I hated to prune them and was tempted to just let it go. If I did, we'd have new rose blooms maybe even…
Red Chair Reflections 