Procrastination
Maybe a strategy for end running procrastination is to do something useful or valuable when you are avoiding doing something else that is important. That way, at least you get something done. But….that might help you avoid feeling guilty about what you have neglected…and that may not be good since presumably the guilty feeling is actually pleasurable, in a toothache sort of way, else why would you procrastinate to start with? Masochism, I suppose. The guilt of not doing the right thing gets you an outcome you perversely want: guilt.
Flying Away
I have gotten comfortable enough on the motorcycle that I have to work at keeping the speed down. I just want to goooooooooo! Not good, but it just sneaks up on me. I get used to 50 or 60 and it seems slow which leads to a constant escalation of perception about what is "fast". Conditions have to determine the right speed and the smart rider is going to respond to that "box" of traffic, visibility, and weather conditions in which he is riding, but the excited Bat person lurking in the soul just wants to fly.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Yada yada yada
Daily Stuff
Sunny and mild today in Seattle. I rode the motorcycle to work…a bit chilly in early a.m. but what fun. It is only four months from now and I will be somewhere in the middle of America riding with several hundred motorcycles on the way to Washington, D.C. I've been intrigued with the idea for three years and I'm finally almost there. Still lots of motorcyle gear and clothing to buy for the trip.
My boss has given notice that he intends to retire as of April 6th. About time. He hasn't really paid much attention or cared for years, and has sat back while various pieces of his responsibilities were transferred to other departments. I've applied for that job and find the prospect of a new role to be stimulating all kinds of ideas about improving things, etc. The flame still burns…although it has been at very low ebb, particularly since our loss.
Maybe the idea of new horizons (both literally and metaphorically), plus the weather this week which hints of spring, is lifting me up. Pray, let it be so.
The War
What despair it creates for me. It such an exact parallel to the Vietnam experience and we are doing it again. With the added cruel irony that most responsible and eager for it all avoided service in Vietnam. Yossarian is smiling somewhere! My boy, with his tendency to worry and assume the worst ( I guess he was right about that) was worried about being drafted. Now we don't need to worry about that and I wish we did…..but, there are hundreds, thousands, of parents out there who are going to suffer the same loss we have. Right now they may be worried, even fearful, but they still have hope. No one who has not lost a child can know how devastating it is to have hope obliterated in a cruel moment when a person in a uniform steps onto your porch. Welcome to the jungle. Thank you, Axel, and thank you foley82 for introducing me to GNR. Those are our children out there people, being sent to die by jumped up fools who won't go themselves.
Sunny and mild today in Seattle. I rode the motorcycle to work…a bit chilly in early a.m. but what fun. It is only four months from now and I will be somewhere in the middle of America riding with several hundred motorcycles on the way to Washington, D.C. I've been intrigued with the idea for three years and I'm finally almost there. Still lots of motorcyle gear and clothing to buy for the trip.
My boss has given notice that he intends to retire as of April 6th. About time. He hasn't really paid much attention or cared for years, and has sat back while various pieces of his responsibilities were transferred to other departments. I've applied for that job and find the prospect of a new role to be stimulating all kinds of ideas about improving things, etc. The flame still burns…although it has been at very low ebb, particularly since our loss.
Maybe the idea of new horizons (both literally and metaphorically), plus the weather this week which hints of spring, is lifting me up. Pray, let it be so.
The War
What despair it creates for me. It such an exact parallel to the Vietnam experience and we are doing it again. With the added cruel irony that most responsible and eager for it all avoided service in Vietnam. Yossarian is smiling somewhere! My boy, with his tendency to worry and assume the worst ( I guess he was right about that) was worried about being drafted. Now we don't need to worry about that and I wish we did…..but, there are hundreds, thousands, of parents out there who are going to suffer the same loss we have. Right now they may be worried, even fearful, but they still have hope. No one who has not lost a child can know how devastating it is to have hope obliterated in a cruel moment when a person in a uniform steps onto your porch. Welcome to the jungle. Thank you, Axel, and thank you foley82 for introducing me to GNR. Those are our children out there people, being sent to die by jumped up fools who won't go themselves.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Happy New Year
Best Wishes to all for 2007. We are back from two weeks in Germany. There is much to report, but later when jet lag has abated a bit. Travel is fun and all that, but there is no place like home. Hug your loved ones or call them. It's always the right time to show you care.
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