Skills and Attributes

I performed a "baptism" recently.  My daughter, Maisie, was there and seemed to take it all in and we got to calling it  a "welcome to the world ceremony" for a baby.  Several hours later, while driving home from another family event. she started to hatch a plan about getting me in touch with families who have babies and may want to have my services for a "welcome to the world ceremony".  She suggested speaking to people we know to find out where they live and then to call others who have little babies to see if "they want Momma to come to their house to have a party and celebration".

Natural born community builder, marketer, and tele-marketer.  Please, Universe,  help her use it for good in her world and the world.

Ugh.

     One of the metaphors I use with my clients is the idea of change and growth being like waves or tornadoes.
     With the wave imagery, we often feel like we are at the beginning of a difficult time or experience/situation all over again.  However, like a wave that curls back on itself and then pushes forward with renewed momentum and strength,we really find ourselves not at the beginning, but much further along again.
    Similarly, the tornado swoops us up in all this energy and chaos, but over time we find ourselves higher up in the funnel with a new perspective.  As time goes on we continue to revisit certain issues, but always higher up (from the ground and chaos) and from a different angle.
     I never said it was easy or pleasant...especially when the wave is cresting or the funnel cloud is on the move.
     And so it is that I am revisiting the career/livelihood quandry-yet again.

(The Forrester Wave)

Sunrise, Sunset...

This day is coming faster than we can imagine.

Hope we are all here to enjoy it.

Apologies...

I have been neglecting this space.  It is not intentional, just something that snuck up and raced time.  I feel as though there are "all the signs" as they have written about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes marriage ending,  about the demise of this blog...fewer entries, shorter entries, excuses...

However, that is not the case.

Summer is here and I am hoping to fill this space with tales of adventure and derring do-or at least good old fashined good times and interesting stuff!

Ennui

It is raining. It has been raining more on than off for several days. I struggle with the staleness of work, a colonoscopy- enforced rest from Crossfit and related activities. There is a malaise and unrest that is settled over me. I am reduced to fantasy on the order of WWTSD- What Would Tony Stark Do? I am 49 years old and find myself emulating a comic book character? Granted, he is really cool and hip AND morally ambivalent -more hero than super, but still...these are dangerous days. I guard against abandoning the ScionxB and speeding away in a Volvo C20.

10 Things I Am Digging Right Now

• Maisie's obsession with John Denver-although at times it is a little creepy.
• Toying with the idea of getting a new truck-someday!
• Shopping for a DSLR camera.
• Although this is not very permaculturally correct, the smell of freshly mown grass.
• My "new" Specialized Hardrock Mountain Bike.
• Maisie tooling around on her "new" bike in the driveway.
• Watching Frasier reruns.
• Mountain Magazine.
• Crossfit.
• Looking forward to seeing Snow White and the Huntsman and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer.

Friday Photo

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. (Inspired by Soule Mama)