Good Day, God! This is the week of Kit’s 65 Punahou Reunion and we were all given yellow plumeria leis at the Kapuna Luncheon. For years we all MADE leis. And they were mostly plumeria. I think, God, I still…
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Perspective . . . perspectives
Good Morning, God! Here’s a photo of me in Tucson. I was walking with my wonderful daughter, Sandy. I’d stopped to gaze UP at a giant saguaro cactus. I think it is the biggest, tallest, most impressive saguaro I have ever seen.…
Tagged with: saguaro cactus, Tucson
Posted in connecting, Our Extended Family - all creatures great and small, Perspective, perspectives, reassembling, recovery time, time, Wanting a protected time
Posted in connecting, Our Extended Family - all creatures great and small, Perspective, perspectives, reassembling, recovery time, time, Wanting a protected time
Six Key Commandment — Navigating Life
Good Morning, God! I was going through my drafts on my email — basically emails that hadn’t been sent — and I found this email to myself. It’s a riff on Being a Tree as in Psalm One. Psalm One…
Posted in connecting
The Power of a Name
Good Morning, God! I’ve been meaning to write about the importance and power of names for weeks now! I’ve always been — what I charitably call a Name Hawk — ready to correct people who call my friends by an…
Tagged with: A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle, Naming
Posted in Books, connecting, developing helpful definitions of love, LOVE, The Power of Naming, The Power of the Spoken Word
Posted in Books, connecting, developing helpful definitions of love, LOVE, The Power of Naming, The Power of the Spoken Word
My Wonderful Husband
Good Morning, God! Yesterday we got the Punahou Bulletin and found the long awaited article on my wonderful husband Kit. And I really wanted to 1) Thank You for him!!! and 2) share the story! Just one small corrections. I…
Tagged with: being lucky, husbands, spouses
Posted in connecting, Families, LOVE, the gift of persistent love
Posted in connecting, Families, LOVE, the gift of persistent love
It’s hard to be a human nowadays
Good Evening, God! I laughed out loud when I read this Dilbert comic this morning. A rueful laugh of recognition! We humans are barely able to maintain Continuous Intermittent Attention — let alone real focus. Except, of course, on video…
Tagged with: AI, algorithms, Google Maps, Robots
Posted in accepting my need for help, adjusting, Artificial Intelligence, Changing, Choosing to respond, complexity, connecting, Future, Help me to see, Perspective
Posted in accepting my need for help, adjusting, Artificial Intelligence, Changing, Choosing to respond, complexity, connecting, Future, Help me to see, Perspective
A few more thoughts on Resilience
Good Day, God! I have yet to read the book I just bought on Micro-Resilience by Bonnie St. John. I thought it would be fun to ponder what I have learned so far about life and resilience. One huge conceptual…
Bouncing and Needing Help
Good Day, God! At lunch today, I heard myself say, “life is uncertain, capricious and bad things do happen but I am determined — as much as I can — to only undergo bad things ONCE. I do not want to…
Thinking and Doing — Prevention!
Good Day, God! Our dear son-in-law Dave has been on a Fat for Fuel eating plan for a few years now. He has returned to his Right Weight and has energy for those Tucson mountains he cycles up. Bravo!!! Iʻm…
Tagged with: Focus Time, standup desks
Posted in connecting, decision making, healing, health, moving, Personal Checklists, Personal Responsibilty
Posted in connecting, decision making, healing, health, moving, Personal Checklists, Personal Responsibilty
Give sorrow words
Good Morning, God! In You we live and move and have our being . . . I try to BE in that place when Death comes for those I love. I’m beginning to understand the Irish tradition of a wake. Actually, I’m…
Tagged with: Find someone to hear!, It is not too late to speak
Posted in connecting, daughters, Death, Families, friends, going THROUGH the sorrow, Grief, loss, LOVE
Posted in connecting, daughters, Death, Families, friends, going THROUGH the sorrow, Grief, loss, LOVE
A Moment with God 