April 26, 2022

Reflexion

 April  26,  2022

 

Thought for Today

“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”

 

Ross Perot

April 25, 2022

Reflection

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

 April 25, 2022

Thought for Today

 

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”

 

Emily Dickinson

 April  24, 2022

Reflection

EDGY

Edgy lived in  a cave.

Oh, he'd come out once and a while - but most of the time - he lived within - with himself.

He'd watch TV - but always by himself. He loved the basement - the under edge of the house.

When he came into where we were sitting, he'd grab something by the edge, a comment, a whatever, shoot it back at someone - and then retreat.

At everything he had to come to, he would always  be in the back, or if he got into the middle of a conversation or an issue that was being discussed, he would be angry or his face would turn into an unhappy face,

I was watching him from the edge or the crowd.

I realized a long time ago it was better to step back if one wanted to see.

I'd see him edge his way out of things.

I'd also notice his bark had an edge to it.

Ugh,

Talking to others behind his back - which was easy - he was absent most of the time - I discovered everyone - well almost everyone - had  the same concern about him.

People who  are eccentric are avoided. Then they become more eccentric - and they are avoided even more.

It can become a vicious circle - even for a person who is outside the circle  - because they are on the edge of something worse.

 April 24, 2022

Thought for Today

 

“Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find.”

Time Magazine

 April 23, 2022

Reflection

WHAT TO DO

The person we work with is crazy or insane or a pain or drives us crazy, does nothing,wastes time.

He or she is on the eternal coffee break.

He or she makes more money than we do, or is praised more than we are, or is  recognized more than we are.

What to do - if anything?

Quit? See someone? Scream? Hang in there?

What to do?

Read The Book of Job? Turn the other cheek? Start our own business?

What to do?

It's an everyday question for millions and millions of people.

Help?

Do you wait for retirement? Ours or the other?

If we leave, will we meet their twin in the next place?

Or even more tricky, is the pattern, the mannerisms that itch and irk you, part of you, and you're no facing it or them?

If that's the truth, then everywhere you go, you go with you and them.

Yikes!

Help.