by Patrick Rhone, Master Generalist
Ten days into her college life and this young lady is doing great! She’s made lots of friends, loves her classes and professors, and spends Sundays in The City with friends eating and shopping and seeing shows (today it’s Heathers). So darn happy and proud of her.
I’ve been mentioning this privately to friends for months now. Wary to post anything about it online because it’s a pretty big cart to drop in front of a midterms horse (need to get that horse saddled or none of this will matter).
And, yet, we also need to be preparing for it. So…
Current Thought Pattern: The ability to think in and act on binary thinking (black/white, right/wrong, good/bad, etc) is privilege. One that most don’t have.
A high horse makes it difficult to see the people just trying to stand on their own two feet.
“Serve the role you’re asked to serve.”
My friend David Sparks said this in a conversation recently while we were discussing the relationship shift that comes once our kids become adults and leave home for college and otherwise. I’ve been thinking about it ever since.
Small Project Week has continued. I fixed the closer on our back screen door. I trimmed our hydrangea trees in front. My wife and I strategized on a couple of the other items on our list. Basically, of the 26 things on our list we knocked out about half of them. Yay us!
Where do you call home? And why?
Jason Kottke has embarked on a grand attempt to answer that question.
Personally, I don’t think there is a one-size-fits-all answer. For me, I feel equally at home in Saint Paul, MN as I do in New Orleans, LA and, strangely, New York City despite the fact I’ve never lived there (but have visited a whole lot during my life).
Even in Saint Paul we live out of two houses (long story) and both feel like (and are!) home to me .
It’ll be interesting to see his thoughts as he writes more about this.
Manton Reece – AI in AirPods, Apple Watch
One of the frustrations people have with AI is that it is pushed at us all the time, in features that don’t need it. Technology this powerful should be mostly seamless, yet it’s so new that it’s put in places that are awkward or that increase friction.
Yep. This.
More Small Project Week progress…
This floating shelf in the library was sagging forward. It’s straight now (sorry, no “before” photo):
Also, cleaned and reorganized the 3rd and final spice drawer (the worst of the bunch). Here’s a split before and after:
Small Project Week continues.
Yet another spice drawer organized (no before picture this time)…
Bridging the Gap – by Pamela Schmid – Unpacking the Words
What started as a desperate plea could so easily have gone sideways if we’d dismissed the neighbor’s concerns. But it turned out she simply needed to be heard, and isn’t that what we all all want and need, especially now?
What we believe in.