How To Be More Like Me & Less Like You

And so we start with five different songs:

• Numb– Linkin Park
• The Dark Knight Medley– Hans Zimmer
• Time– Hans Zimmer
• It Don’t Come Easy– Ringo Star
• Feel Like Making Love– Bad Company

The Lazy Susan in the house made an executive decision to live up to its name and so I took it upon myself to fix it.

What I expected to be a simple task took longer to complete than expected and ultimately was finished by my son.

We snapped at each other twice and I started to laugh which made him angry and made me laugh again because it reminded me of working with his grandfather on projects around the house.

The younger Mr. Wilner didn’t appreciate it but they were good memories and I expect he’ll have similar ones one day.

He doesn’t know how much I enjoyed watching him figure out the solution. He saw a different way to do it than I did and he got it to work faster than I would have.

There was much joy in seeing that as well as I was still able to teach him a couple of tricks. Tricks that he immediately incorporated into his solution and it reminded me of the value of multiple approaches.

Build A Library Of Your Own Thoughts

I can’t remember the first time I heard this but I do know the most recent moment in which I received instruction I call How To Me More Like Me & Less Like You or as I said in my best indoor voice, “the fuck that is going to happen. Good luck making that work, not happening.”

It is similar to trying to give me directions while I am driving somewhere I have been to a million times. If I haven’t asked for your assistance I might accidentally go left instead of right.

Not good with micromanagement, mavens and people who try to police my speech or and thought.

Five Recent Posts

• About Those Questions You Don’t Want To Answer
• The Five Minute Blog Post
• Great Gardens Require Dirty Hands

Yes, I know there are less than five posts above but sometimes I want to see if you dear reader actually pay attention to the words I write.

It is why I sometimes put things in text that are designed to elicit feelings, emotions and or ideas. I want you to think.

I want you to feel something.

Eclipse

Got my special glasses so I can step outside and watch the eclipse tomorrow provided the weather cooperates.

I expect it to get dark and for the temperature to drop. I am excited about this, the heavens always interest me including giant balls of gas that are a million light years away from us.

Can’t see nothing in front of me
Can’t see nothing coming up behind
Make my way through this darkness
I can’t feel nothing but this chain that binds me
Lost track of how far I’ve gone
How far I’ve gone, how high I’ve climbed
The Rising- Bruce Springsteen