The other day my 2-year-old was using binoculars backwards and so I corrected her but she doesn’t always like being corrected and she insisted that she was using them the way that she wanted to. So, as I try to do, I imagined that she was right and I was wrong. It was not the …
Monthly Archives: August 2020
How much time do you spend with what’s important to you?
There are some fires near our house and my wife suggested that we pack a bag of things we want to take with us if we were forced to evacuate. I thought about what was important to me and what I would take. One thing that came to mind is this wooden sculpture that I …
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Born to be wild
Some of the cheetahs and other animals that were at the wildlife preserve that I went to recently were born at the preserve. Some of them were endangered species and the hope was that they would one day be released back into the wild to help increase their numbers. Can you imagine being raised in …
How fast can you run?
Yesterday we were at a wildlife preserve and saw a cheetah. She was inside a fenced off area that was comfortable and seemingly spacious but was probably much too small for her. Cheetahs, my five year old tells me, are the fastest land animal on Earth. They can go from 0 to 60 in 3 …
You be you
My son is adventurous but quick to scream for a Band-Aid. One day when he was not being as adventurous as I would have hoped, I sighed to my wife, “I can’t live his life for him.” But that’s exactly the point, isn’t it? The last thing in the world that I’m supposed to do …
Explore the maze
I drew a maze for my son that had a spiral path in it. He stopped when he saw it because he thought it was a dead end. But there are two types of maze spirals. Dead ends and spirals you can come out of. Don’t quit too soon. Explore the maze.
Where do you want to fall?
My son is learning how to ride a bike and we were sort of anxious about taking the training wheels off until my wife’s cousin told us how he did it with his daughters. He said, “Just take him to a grassy hill that goes slightly downhill. Then he can just use the gravity of …
Not my problem, or…
There were many posters at Facebook that I liked. One was a poster that said, “Nothing at Facebook is someone else’s problem”. Don’t ignore it. Just fix it. “If you see something, say something,” becomes “If you see something, do something.”
Be a wish.
Mark Cuban said in an interview that no one ever does a Make-A-Wish to go attend a corporate Google meeting. It would be nice if what we did inspired others so much that they wanted to be part of it. When others make a wish, try to be the wish.
Fix your wins
I watched a poker vlog where the commentator player won the hand but then said that maybe he could have won more money by having made a bigger bet. He won, but he missed out. To improve, you can fix your losses. And: You can fix your wins. If it ain’t broke, fix it.