Celebrate time-released successes
“Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.” –Robert Orben Well, Typepad, the provider for this blog, experienced a “time-released success” yesterday in which some comments and posts that had been on “37days” were sent elsewhere to cheer up little people in far away galaxies. So, …
Stop fearing dust
I’m pleased to be participating in an online dialogue called "Collective Genius," a blog experiment in which a group of folks is noodling around with a different issue each month–this month, the topic is fear. If you’d like to read my entry into the conversation, it is called "Stop fearing …
Keep looking up
“The true harvest of my life is intangible—a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.” – Henry David Thoreau I taught a Junior Achievement class for nine weeks at a local high school last fall—the focus was jobs and careers after high school, that ubiquitous …
Unpack your boxes
“Leaving’s not the only way to go.” – Roger Miller(thank you to Jill’s Living Room for permission to use this image of water on a poinsettia leaf) “We were invited; I’m going” was all he said, unfolding to his full height. He pressed his small, round, gold glasses against the …
Protect your karma
"Insist on yourself; never imitate." – Ralph Waldo Emerson My dear friends, It has come to my attention that large portions of essays from 37days have made their way onto other sites in this wonderful blogosphere we all call home, not as if the blog authors were quoting 37days, but …
Don’t look at the postcard
“Comparisons are odorous.” – William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene V Let me just suggest something to you. There are very few things that I know for sure in life, but this is one of them: When a recipe states at the top of the instructions that …
37days in prison
Over the past year, I’ve had a dozen requests to send "37days" to prison inmates across the U.S. The mailing list to inmates continues to grow. If you would like to include a prisoner on the mailing list to receive "37days," just email me with their name and mailing address. …
Push up, not down
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."-Walt Whitman Daddy was raised one garden up from Mull Brother’s Grocery where the butcher counter’s blood red meat lay in sharp contrast to the sawdust on the floor. …
Choose your seatmates wisely
“You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.” — Amelia Earhart Some years ago, I was chosen to keynote a very large international conference of about 12,000 people; it would be my largest audience ever. I would share the platform with a colleague I had …
Yield to aircraft
“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you are riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind.” – Bob Marley I’m intimately familiar with the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. Franny in Laptop Lane greets me by name; the store Toto sells good greeting cards; Starbucks is …
