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Anticipation
This should provide a nice counterpoint to the Patience post, here. Anticipation can seriously enhance or seriously detract from an experience. Ahead of birthdays (depending on your age, of course), special holidays (Christmas, for me), and vacations/visiting friends, anticipation is a bit thrilling. It hypes the upcoming event like the best PR person in the…
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I voted!
I voted today! My husband and I went together, and we voted. No one harassed us, or tried to stop us. No one made it harder for us to vote. No one changed the rules at the last minute so we couldn’t vote. I’d like to say that’s because we live in America, but it’s…
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A year
One year ago today, Henry and Eleanor were born. Before they were born, they were Baby A and Baby B, and once they were born they became Baby Boy Ring and Baby Girl Ring. We couldn’t believe it when, three days later, the hospital sent us home with them. By ourselves! We needed help strapping…
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Patience as instruction
Patience is one of those funny things that is always inversely affected by your own sense of urgency. The more urgent your task, the less patience you can generally muster. But it’s also one of those things that can be cultivated. It’s hard, which is why people say that patience is a virtue. If it’s…
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Lunching with twins
I go visit the Ringlets at lunch. Today, a story about Henry. He is kind of obsessed about getting into stuff. Here’s a recent photo of him in the toy box at my parents. So today at lunch, he had found another box to get into. And, quite typically, Eleanor caught sight, and decided to…
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Trust
Early one morning last week, I was lying on my side when something woke me a little. I opened an eye and saw Eleanor; she was sleeping between us, and just stirring. I went back to sleep. Sometime later, I felt something lightly thud on my shoulder and chest. A little giggle. Then it went…
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Time and society
Last night at nearly the same time, my wonderful husband who is wonderful and I expressed opposite opinions. Him: This week is flying by! Me: This week is going so slowly! Then we stood there for a second staring at the other one, probably both of us (at least one of us) wondering how the…
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Passion part three
Just today I came across this article in Fast Company by Cal Newport, excerpted from his book: http://www.fastcompany.com/3001441/do-steve-jobs-did-dont-follow-your-passion. The comments are especially interesting. Part of the argument is that people think Steve Jobs told students to find and follow their passion, while his own history was more complex than that. He developed passion in his…
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Passion part 2
My sister and I were talking about the first Passion post (here) and she said some things that I thought were really interesting. First, you should know that she is a Major in the Army, she’s done two tours in war zones, and she is kind of* kick ass. Anyway, she’s currently doing some continuing…
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Passion
My husband made a CD for a trip we were taking recently, and I stole it and put it in my car afterwards. This is the way of my people. Anyway, I was listening to these songs, and I started to think about how, for me, musicians I like reach a sort of peak, and…
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