Week 43

My Uncle Ray died on the 23.  The cancer spread into his bones and he knew it was a matter of time until he joined his wife Vicky who passed this fall.  His funeral is this weekend, which I'm not going to be able to attend.  Much as that upsets me, sometimes the reality of the situation is what it is.  Besides relationships are what are important, and I had a good one with Ray.  I'll miss him.  Funerals are for the living.  I have no doubts that despite my inability to attend, he knows its not from lack of respect or affection.  I saw him at Vicky's funeral, so at least I had the chance to say good bye.

So New Years Eve.  My plans begin and end with hot tea, movies and dog snuggles on the couch.  Might  not be exciting, but I happen to like hot tea, movies and snuggling with my dog on the couch.  Besides, between overhauling the house for the endless flow of people over Christmas and trying to practice for the demo and so forth, I think I've earned a little time being a lazy lump.  Might not get me to Mastery, but it will keep me sane.

In other news, my epic cough is back.  so not happy about that, but not back to work until the 7th, so I'm hoping to get over the lions share of the lung infection.

Anyway that's it.  Be safe if you are going out.

Week 42

Have you ever felt like this on the road to mastery?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoaCiF1j7v8

I know I have because I'm Mr Incredible Baby!

Ok so I'm not Mr Incredible, but he does have a point here.  Several in fact.  Not the least of which is learning when you are in over your head and asking for help.

But by believing in your abilities and forging ahead we can make things happen.

Although sometimes that process makes us feel like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIujM_1NAPY

Ok just watch the Incredibles 2, it's worth the giggle.

Week 41

I sit here blogging, many thoughts swirling around.  Had a few ideas, but nothing is really sticking out as being a topic to expand on.

So I go to an old fall back.  Raising awareness of species that humans have had a direct cause of going extinct.  For example:  Did you know the Woolly Mammoths and Mastodons were not only cold climate animals?  They weren't!  The largest Mammoth in fact was the Columbian Mammoth.

Their territory was from the north states to Costa Rica.  AND Mammoths are not closest related to African Elephants even though they look mostly like them.  The Asian Elephant is closest related.  The wildest part is that the Columbian Mammoth was the largest, and swam to the Channel Islands near California and became the smallest Mammoths - the Pygmy Mammoth.

And then people showed up and went CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP!

Nice of em, but have we really learned anything since then?  We still don't know how to manage our resources and we still wage wars over oil, narcotics, water, and other resources.  The bottom line is the most important thing to humans as an unfortunate whole is money.  So long as that is the case, we will continue to allow big business to make decisions for us, to elect leaders who cater to them, and to lament their choices without actually doing anything to change it.

Week 40

Here we are again, late on a Tuesday.  Time goes so fast as is, and it always picks up speed at the end of the year.  So many things to get organized. Where to begin?

Christmas is madness with family arriving and finding places to put them.  Grading and demos practice time and days of, always a hand full. And on and on and on.

Today is just about getting something on line.  That's part of the journey.  Even when you don't have time, or don't know what to say, still put it out there and tick one more off the list.  Not a great blog, but being the next Shakespeare isn't a quality of a champion.  Follow through is.  So we follow through.