

Life
Finding Meaning in Daily Activities, Even Now
You are creating your life every day; every choice you make determines the quality of your life
If you’re like me, each day you shudder to think what new, nation-destroying ploy, or blunder, the Biden administration will foist upon us next. In our own lives, nevertheless, while awaiting November 2022 and the chance to take back the Senate and House, we have the opportunity to find meaning nearly each day.
In her book, My Grandfather’s Blessings, Rachel Remen tells a story about a doctor who had to deliver a baby in the hallway of the emergency room area. He had delivered other babies but not like this. While swabbing the baby’s face, she opened her eyes and looked right at him: he was the first person she had ever seen.
This experience changed the doctor’s way of proceeding. He regarded this as sacred moment. He remembered why he chose this line of work. He felt validated. His cynicism fell away. He became more invigorated, more inspired, and started to interact with more of his patients and his co-workers. Soon, he was invited to events he had never participated in before. His whole world opened up.
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Now, he seeks such moments constantly.
A Capacity that Builds
Finding meaning is a capacity that we build, like a muscle. When you first started in your current career position, finding meaning was not an issue. You were excited. There was so much you wanted to do. You had all kinds of plan. Then, years passed.
Little by little you became jaded perhaps. Why did I choose this line of work? Why can’t I find competent help? Why are customer or clients so demanding?
It is possible, even now in this time of turmoil, to reinvent yourself on the job, to rediscover what initially attracted you to this profession and what the current possibilities might be. Sometimes the re-awakening is triggered by attending a conference or convention, taking a course, reading a vital book, or spending time with a colleague or peer.
Goodbye to Yesterday
Today and the days that follow do not have to be extensions of what came before. You do not have to proceed into the future looking through a rear view mirror. A world of choices awaits, even if in the same old position you’ve been holding down for years.
Will you make new choices? And what will drive those choices?
Discovering or rediscovering meaning is about getting clear on what’s most important to you and aligning your choices with those priorities. It’s about living and working with intention instead of operating on autopilot or by default, where one day looks exactly like the next.
So, What Matters Right Now?
Start by identifying what’s most important to you …today, not what was important five, ten, or 20 years. Is it creativity, or perhaps collaboration? Maybe it’s impact or flexibility?
Next, identify what professional – and this might be different than your current profession! – and personal goals align with those priorities. What does living or working more creativity look like? If, say, collaboration matters to you, how can you incorporate more collaboration into the work you do?
From here, you’ll want to pinpoint actions or choices that support those goals. Where are your current choices in or out of alignment with what you’ve identified as most important? What new, more intentional choices can you make?
Each and Every Day
Consider this: You are creating your life every day. Every choice you make, action or inaction, determines the quality of your life. If not now, when: Making the choice to live and work with intention and in alignment is the key to cultivating a life of meaning and fulfillment.
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Life
Handicapped Parking for the Highly Privileged
How do you feel about physically fit couples who have a handicapped parking permit?
Many times now I have watched two apparently able-bodied adults, a married couple I’m told, consistently take the handicapped parking space closest to the tennis courts. Then they proceed to vigorously play for about two hours.
No One Seems to Know
How do you feel about physically fit couples who have a handicapped parking permit? When I’ve subtly asked around, no one seems to know anything about either spouse’s physical handicap. I’ve submitted the letter below to the correct and appropriate email recipients on three occasions, and have never received a response:
Dear North Carolina Program Staff,
Several mornings each, the car pictured in the attachments pulls into a handicap parking spot at the XYZ courts. The car is a gray Highlander Limited, with North Carolina license plate XXX-XXX. After parking in the handicapped spot as shown in the picture, two apparently able-bodied adults, a husband and wife, emerge from the car with sports equipment and proceed to play vigorous matches for about two hours.
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It is difficult to determine what type of handicap befalls either of these two adults. Perhaps, earlier, one of them was injured or convalescing. Clearly, today, with their ability to engage in a demanding sport, the question arises, why do they still have a handicap parking sticker? And, why are they denying others the ability to use this space if so needed?
Under North Carolina law, the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles issues disability placards and license plates for vehicle owners who need parking assistance and are certified as:
* Being unable to walk without assistance
* Having mobility impairments caused by lung disease, defective vision or cardiac, arthritic, neurological or orthopedic conditions
Neither of these individuals fits the description above and surely this case merits investigation. Thank you for your time and attention.
Enduring Privilege
So, here’s an idea: Let’s grant all applicants a permanent handicapped parking permit: with no expiration date, no enforcement, and no concern!
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Elections
Overcome Leftist Propaganda: Conservative Documentaries and Extended Interviews
In ‘ultra-woke’ America finding media outlets and information vehicles that report the truth is challenge.
Being middle-of-the-road or conservative in today’s insanely ‘woke’ America means having a hard time finding media outlets and information vehicles that report the truth. We are all far too familiar with the reality confronting us on a daily basis.
The high-tech online companies, corporate America, major newspapers, major TV networks, Hollywood, and a variety of otherwise so-called ‘journalists’ maintain an incredible, indefensible slant to the left. Many border on Marxism and outright Communism. They lie by omission, by twisting narratives, or by creating stories out of whole cloth which fit their pre-selected parallaxed narratives.
Precise, not Speculative
Here, for your edification, are 12 conservative documentaries and/or lengthy interviews. Notice the care and precision with which each has been produced, offering names, dates, facts, and figures with little or no hyperbole.
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- Selection Code, Election Rigging
2. The Creepy Line – Full Documentary on Social Media’s manipulation of society
3. What Is a Woman? Full Documentary 2022, by By Matt Walsh
4. What is a woman? – Matt Walsh LIVE on Campus (Facebook link)
5. Hillary’s America – The Secret History of the Democratic Party
6. Is Fake News a Myth? – Sharyl Attkisson
7. My Son Hunter, Full Movie (fiction, very close to fact)
8. Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
9. Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism
10. The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism
11. Imposing Limits on the Woke? – Christopher Rufo
12. Climate Science: What Does it Say? – Dr. Richard Lindzen
One Fine Day
One day, may we all dwell in a society where journalism and news reporting represent some semblance of accuracy, fairness, clarity, and, need it be said, truth.
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