Here are my blog posts. I previously posted them on Obsidian but I’m moving them (slowly) to this website. It will take time. I’m also going to be publishing new pages as often as they come to mind.
There’s a reason they ask entrepreneurs, what is your elevator speech?
It’s because a lot can happen in an elevator. Two or more people meet. There are limmited distractions. You have an opportunity to share messages. You might make a transaction.
Anyway, that’s the logic of it.
Like most things, there’s more than logic in promoting the elevator speech.
You’re making a mad dash to decent coffee. Your hair may or may not be combed. If you’re twelve, you may be going to your parent’s room in your swim suit.
Yesterday...
After the dog's bath.
My wife ambled her way to the garage door.
I let our dog down her ramp
And out of the car.
I watched our dog
Follow her Momma
To the door.
While my wife unlocked the door
I watched them both
From the car.
Both my girls.
The Beauties I live for.
My feelings in that moment
Were all gratitude
For it's simplicity
Nothing else mattered.
No event could eclipse
That picture in my mind.
That was all there was
Right then.
The expanse of my World,
Was funneled
Into 63 cubic feet.
But those 63 cubic feet
Were more expansive
Than all the Universe.
Only a fleeting cluster of photons,
Filtered into an optic nerve,
Gratitude distilled in a millisecond.
It’s Indepenence Day in the United States. As a nation, the United States seems less independent than at any time in our history.
In this post, I wanted to talk about how a country’s economic policies promote or removes freedoms. This post starts with a policy that swept America away: Trickle-down Economics. Trickle-down economics came into public discussion during the United States Presidency of Ronald Reagan. It promised that great wealth trickles down to the poor. Don’t saddle the wealthy or corporations with taxes. Give them more money and it will trickle down to the impoverished, the story went. It sounded good. For years, I believed it, too.
I suspect my Mom wasn’t the only parent who responded to her children’s loud disagreements and fighting by telling us to go to our rooms.
It was good advice. When we get caught up in fight (part of the fight, flight, faint network), the chemicals coursing through our bodies want to defend ourselves from fear of shame, embarrassment, and , occasionally, physical injury.
Often, the most mindful way of navigating our fear, anger, and doubt is to separate ourselves from the circumstances. This is especially true if we can learn to be aware of arousal. Awareness can be our Earkly Warning System! It gives us space to rewrite the story we’re telling ourselves. Usually, that’s the problem: the story that’s taken residence in our mind. They’re taking advantage of us. They don’t value my feelings. They always treat me this way.
Pastor Martin Niemöller did what many Christians did when they saw the Third Reich systematically remove the rights of selected populations. Group by group, Hitler and his hinchmen took away the rights 1) of the press, 2) of educational institutions and their professors, 3) of races, 4) the mentally ill, 5) of dissidents, and of other groups.
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