Tag: self reflection
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Acceptance or enlightenment.
I am moving closer to enlightenment. This isn’t a religious epiphany, and it isn’t political. It’s acceptance. I have often thought I knew, or understood most topics enough to have a reasonably intelligent conversation. Not the minutiae of a nuclear reaction or crypto-currency, but the humanities and sports were topics I could navigate. If talk…
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I wondered what happened to him.
Glancing over my Facebook feed today, I noticed a post from my high school group, West High Class of 73. It said “We have lost a dear member of our class.” Included was the obituary for Elizabeth Connie Kelson. I didn’t recognize her. The fact we graduated 49 years ago could explain that but I…
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Planning a little trip.
In November 2020, after graduating from real estate school, and being pretty much “done” with the pandemic, I started an AirBNB search for properties, in or around Key West. The general idea was to stay for a week or so during Valentine’s Day 2021. I would be retired from Career A, and not yet full-steam…
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Booster. Roger that.
After months of making a case for rejecting it, I could not continue to ignore the statistical evidence to get it. My initial concern for not getting the shot was because I didn’t want a repeat of my ER stay after receiving the 2019 seasonal flu shot. In March 2021, I got both shots with…
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Another year to ponder.
2021. It offered such promise. Even if we all knew it could never live-up to our expectations, it had to be better than 2020, right? Right. In many ways it was worse and that too may be attributed to unreasonable expectations. To me at least, much of what we faced seemed to be payback of…
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A thought about Utah DCFS* & to booster-or not.
A series of texts had informed us that a particular home we were associated with had been left abandoned. The text’s continued saying that neighbors had started complaining about a disgusting smell that was emanating from said house. I made a call to the police, communicating this information and asking for assistance. Meeting them at…
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Pearl Harbor & 9/11
So much has been said and written about this day. For twenty-years, on 9/11, we hear inspiring stories of sacrifice and courage. I imagine anyone of an age that remembers living through this event, has their own very personal reflections. For my small family, it was an anxious time filled with real uncertainty about the…
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I’m vaccinated and just tested negative. Why aren’t I happy about it?
At this point in 2020, I had started backing off—a little—my incessant nitrile glove usage and started relying more on a mask, especially indoors, since the CDC said that was the more likely way to spread the virus. I continued to sanitize, of course, just in case. The rhetoric over a “vaccine” and when we…
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Ramblings…
In the beginning, when I decided to create this blog, my “agenda” was to chronicle turning 65. In my mind, I was still relevant, at least in the work-force I thought, and felt undervalued in my current circumstance. A blog would allow for a place to rant & rave about such things if only to…
a life always under construction 