Expedient rarely translates to effective … — Finding the right word and best tone for the reader, being heard, being understood — works best when we arouse readers with our best words to describe what we mean. As we spend less face-to-face time with everyone, accuracy and clarity in written communications grow more critical. Miss-steps potentially become…

… a poem by Mark Kolke maybe I’ve already met her or nearly met her or am about to meet her; or maybe we’ll pass like two ships at sea, in dark of night, or maybe we’ll gently bump into each other, in a store, between turnips and melons. wherever…

~ we are children learning to walk again … — When a child is struggling to walk for the first time, what do we do? We coax them to ‘try to take that first step,’ and we enthusiastically cheerlead whether progress or success occurs just then. A relentless effort is all that child needs. We don’t scold; we encourage. We…

Help, I’m new; my expectations are higher than my reality Maybe I should just start eating blueberries, drinking coffee, and throwing myself into pursuits besides writing. Maybe not. Writing, for me, is the best expression of joy, frustration, and malaise I’ve ever found. Some people jog, but running is not…

Everything that is not a continent or an ocean has been made by someone. — We can pull off that bandaid, we can gradually pull back the tape — or we can rip it off in the moment, swiftly, decisively, and perhaps joyously. Not logically, but because we have to, not to survive, but to thrive. Rules, interpretation of rules, language, and actions/reactions arising from…

All addicts are not the same, all alcoholics are different — we hide what we decide not to disclose, which is not to say we keep secrets as much as it is to say we keep private. We all live our lives on display — for all to see, displaying…

FINGERS CROSSED — this could be the BIG ONE — Too often, we hear about some problems dismissed by governments, by leaders, and by business as something not worth their time and trouble — they simply wash their hands of it. How quickly times change, and how quickly we learn to wash our hands. Fingers crossed everyone, this could be the BIG ONE. This is not about the long-feared…

we get warnings all the time but only listen to the loud noise — HOLD ON A MINUTE; this is what it is — HUMAN CAPITAL I see this as ‘our collective will to prevent unnecessary deaths’ colliding with ‘our collective will to have our lives and economy functioning as we’ve become accustomed to.’ No census takers will measure it, but we should expect…

~ we can struggle to ‘get back to what we were doing,’ whether or not that will be viable — because we cannot reliably guess at long term probability for anything right now. — ‘get back to what we were doing’ We can struggle to ‘get back to what we were doing,’ whether or not that will be viable — because we cannot reliably guess at long term probability for anything right now. Or we can try something totally new — invent a new…