Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Odd Jobs
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List-mode -noun A state of being wherein a moderately organized compulsive listmaker falls behind on things she needs to do, usually due to a weekend out of town with her girlfriends, and can't help but make more lists in a feeble attempt to get caught up without forgetting something important. 1. Sigh. 2. The weekend…
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"Nothing happens unless first we dream." ~ Carl Sanburg So true. But dreams are just seeds – they don't bloom without the right conditions and it's up to us to help them along. We have to water them. Plant them where they'll get enough sunshine. I've been prodded several times just in the past few…
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"You have a daughter? I just remember the two boys!" "Yep. I had her in '91. What year did you leave?" "'90." "Well, that explains it then. Here's her picture…" "Yeah, I saw it. She looks just like you. You don't look like you, but she does!" When Ken first met me, I was 19.…
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You've seen that story about the professor and the rocks, right? The one where he uses them to explain priorities to his classroom? If you haven't, here's a synopsis (if you know the story, just skip this part)… To illustrate time management and priorities, a professor sets a large jar on the table…
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Tommy's cough was back, worse than before, poor baby. No preschool for him tomorrow; that meant one of us would have to stay home with him, give him nebulizer treatments every four hours. Probably take him back to the doctor. I hoped he wouldn't need another round of Prednisone. "I took off work last time," Tom…
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Jim called himself an Indian, not a Native American. He was born and raised in Oklahoma, but for the life of me I can't remember what tribe's blood ran through his veins. His skin was dark like oiled leather, his black hair untouched by gray despite the thirty year difference in our ages. I…
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I had to go to a meeting tonight. In another life, I had at least one meeting almost every night of the week, and sometimes during the day. Meetings go hand-in-hand with volunteering, and I was pretty much a professional volunteer and community busy-body… There were PTA meetings, PTA officer meetings, Room Parent meetings, Site-Based…
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It's been a morning of sadness for me. A morning for shedding tears. Several emails waited quietly in line to inform me that a friend from my DuPont days was killed over the weekend. Roger wasn't one of my closest friends out there – I'm not sure if we ever even worked the same shift,…
Long Hollow 