Man of the People, Thwarter of Evildoers, Butler to Cats.
I don’t keep a private diary. I want to; I lack the time. Blogging already pushes the limit. Yet there are things I’d welcome sharing — provided that the folks I know in meatspace will never see it.
Oh, the dilemma. 🙂
The inner censor keeps some of my most interesting thoughts from ever seeing the light of day. Good thing? Bad thing? Bah.
I have never felt small. Nor, for that matter, have I ever felt tall. I stand 5’10”, and am a normal-sized adult human male. Lately, however, I’ve just felt short. At the hospital, I work in a building in the middle of a construction zone, and judging by the men I sometimes encounter on the […]
A little update: Today was the first of two days of classroom training and confined-water diving, leading to certification as a PADI open-water diver. The actual open-water dives required for certification will be completed on a weekend in two or three weeks. The course is interesting. I like this already, and am eager to do […]
There was a photo of the testing class for our recent first-ever escrima rankings, placed on the dojo’s Web site, which I am reproducing here. I am, obviously, the one wearing the green belt. The tall one in the center is Sensei Chris, the escrima instructor and one of the Uechi black belts.
Today’s million-dollar question: Is there anything significant in people openly bragging about their disordered behaviors? I thought about this in the context of last weekend’s "spring fling." Several of the partygoers were open and unashamed of their substance-abuse problems, and had no qualms whatsoever in disclosing this to strangers. A few of them are alcoholics; […]
My friend Duane blogged today about conversations. Instead of summarizing his argument, I’ll merely link to it. Read it before reading on, please. No, really. READ IT. OK, good. Let’s continue. I recall, late last fall, visiting an elderly gentleman in the hospital. I was making my normal pastoral-care rounds, and stopped by his room […]
My friend Duane blogged today about conversations. Instead of summarizing his argument, I’ll merely link to it. Read it before reading on, please. No, really. READ IT. OK, good. Let’s continue. I recall, late last fall, visiting an elderly gentleman in the hospital. I was making my normal pastoral-care rounds, and stopped by his room […]
OK, so it’s been a while. I’ve been busy — so sue me. In random order: Facebook … Last week, my friend Audrey (classmate, 2nd grade through high school) contacted me out of the blue on Facebook. That was nice; I really hadn’t seen her in a decade. This weekend, though, another grade-school friend, Katie, […]
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to […]
Time flies when … you’re doing things. Even when Spring only pretends to arrive. Update: The wonderful world of the hospital has been interesting. After years of working toward an integrated model between the finance and clinical areas of revenue-cycle management, the hospital made several substantial changes to the organizational structure that substantially shifts the […]