Whatever happened to Diamond Rio?

I think I used those roller blades maybe twice? I always have this image of falling and breaking my wrists.

Why am I so obsessed with board games? Obsessed. Obsessed with cardboard counters and colorful boards and wooden and plastic cubes. Old, new. I think about them too much.

Wednesday was National Holocaust Observance Day. “Never again”, many say. And yet, there is the vulgar, unconscionable violence in Syria and Iraq. Human nature remains the same. Some will always need to destroy the different.

How do people get so much done in a day? If I get three things done, I feel accomplished.

I need to go winter camping. I need to see what it is like to spend the night in the wild in a tent surrounded by snow. And to see if I can start a fire in the morning. And not get eaten by a bear.

I appreciate my friends of faith who, despite life circumstances, never waver. I wander around so much inside. My intellectual beliefs are fairly solid- about God, about Jesus, about the necessity of the cross. My practice of my faith is pretty deplorable. And it’s not real faith unless you live from it. I am grateful for those who are stronger and continue to strive live out what they believe. They at least encourage me to stay near the teachings.

I wonder how well I would do if I had no TV or internet. At times that sounds so appealing- to have so much less noise filling my head. But I choose to consume both regularly, consistently. The nature of the obsessive personality.

Will I ever use that table saw in the garage?

Apple is not quite the same without you, Mr. Jobs.

I wish I could just change my daily life patterns. Do more; watch less. Passivity eats a life away.

To my dismay, I’ve not done “Seven Minutes with God” in years.

Knowing we are ultimately headed to the same fate, I am glad to hug each cat every day. And they seem to put p with it pretty well.

This reunion planning stuff is very challenging. I am not, unlike our president, a very good “community organizer”.

One of the keys to living a productive life: velocity. Discovering how to achieve a particularly comfortable speed of movement in life that allows you to complete projects and tasks in a timely manner. Corollary: velocity supports momentum.

It would be incredible to build something by hand. Anything.