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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Take a bead every weekend for 18 years. Yes. Dear Son, been taking one bead from this jar every weekend for 12 years now. Two thirds of our life under the same roof is over.
This is why balance is so important. Kids grow up fast. What’s your biggest regret looking back on how your children are no longer living with you?
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Dear Son, time may seem to drag on for you. For people like me and your Mother, it flies by. Here’s why:
This past year was 1/10th of your life. For us it was 1/50th. The new stuff children experience, in the same amount of time as an adult, is overwhelming. New things and experiences slow time down. Same old, same old speeds it up.
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We seen it on TV. A reputable person, say an elementary school teacher, being a jerk to someone undeserving. In public. It taints everything.
Dear Son, as we both witnessed the dialogue of the bitter man (a casual friend actually) hating Apple Genius employees (and his laptop), we came to a blinding flash of the obvious:
You get out of life what you put in.
While at the Genius bar at exactly the same time, unaware of our friend’s hatred, I told the Genius how much I trusted Apple to take care of me no matter what.
Then in less than a minute, we got an invaluable lesson.
You get out of life what you put in.
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Dear Son, stress creates a wasteful use of energy called bickering. Thanks for recognizing it and being open and honest.
Dear self, get busy figuring this out and eradicating it.
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PS. The bickering was short lived, but nonetheless, it happened. Working on it being the last time. Ever. Joy does not mean stress-free, it means finding alternatives to negative reactions.
Dear Son, what’s important about The White House on June 25, 2012? Much of life is relative to our personal experiences. What’s a big deal for one, to another, isn’t. And so it goes.
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