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Monday, 16 November 2009

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

  • The Answer

    www.compassion.com/corner

    The line that struck me was that "we get everything we wanted only to discover that we're missing something we had before."

    The synopsis:

    Why is it that often when we get what we want, we still feel empty? We work so hard to succeed, but our lives just end up becoming more about us. Can success turn on us? Can we get caught up in a smaller world where our lives are all about the things that we want? Or is there another way to live? Where life is about more than just us. Where we see people in need and we do something about it. Where our world is expanding because we are sharing our success. And maybe in attempting to save someone else from their suffering, we find out that we are actually the ones being saved.

     

Thursday, 05 November 2009

  • Water

    As we got rain, rain and more rain throughout the month of October, I kept thinking that there are places in the world that actually need the water.  (Unlike the land of car washes and lawn sprinklers.)  Why can't God just even it out?  Then I thought that God wants us to even it out.  But I'm not sure how to send water to Cameroon. 

    All the October rain has made me think more about how to share the many resources I have. 

Saturday, 31 October 2009

  • Texas Wiener II

    As I drive around, I make a mental note of eating establishments that look interesting to me and that I would like to try someday.  This list has become infamous in our marriage, because usually the places I note turn out to be a big disappointment.  We have dubbed this the "Texas Wiener II" phenomenon, because this hot dog place was one of the first places I dragged my husband to and I believe it was one of the most disgusting eating experiences of his life.

    Now I try to satisfy my curiosity when I am by myself.  Yesterday, I checked out a local coffee shop that I had my eye on for a while.  I ordered an egg salad sandwich, a soft drink and a candy bar.  The egg salad tasted like it had spent too much time in the fridge, the bread was stale, the soft drink was syrupy and the candy bar was old.  "Texas Wiener II" I immediately thought.

    I've become more discriminating in my tastes (or opinions) in the past few years.  Before I would have said that the meal was "okay," now I can say that it was "bad."

Friday, 30 October 2009

  • Teamwork

    At the business school I worked at, we assigned teams that the students would have to work with for all of their core courses.  We made the effort to put together people as different as possible so that they would have to learn to work together.  It was also stressed that divvying up the work among the team is not the way that teams should accomplish tasks.

    At the business school I attend, the professor let us pick our teams (I gravitated towards 2 older (like me) students and a studious undergrad) and told us that since the project had 4 parts, we should assign 1 part to each person.  I noted that this was quite different, but didn't object - it's much easier this way.

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  • gardengal71
    We had a bunch of ice, our driveway was like an ice skating rink. It was an adventure just trying to get out of the driveway! But, now it looks like it was never even there! It made it into the high 40's yesterday, and now it's all gone. And I like it! One of the joys of living in Illinois.
  • ny93
    You will get to like the cold , I did 25 years ago when I move to the frozen north from the wonderful shores of NC. Keep the chin up camper it only gets better , Maybe you need to crack the wipe on that man and make him clean the house while you play.
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