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Thursday Seeds| Beast of Burden
Beast of Burden. First thought? The Rolling Stones. Definition of it? An animal used for carrying loads. Load carrying/bearing walls cannot be knocked down if you want to keep the integrity of the structure. If we got back to the lyrics of the song by the Rolling stones, it’s about not looking co-dependently for another to carry your load. You can carry your own pack. Don’t want to kill yourself? Pack light. Lighten the load! If you are a pack rat, this isn’t a simple thing to do. If you haven’t done your homework, you could take out a load bearing wall which could take your progress back to the…
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Thursday Seeds | Get Naked
Be careful who you share your details with. They might be listening. Same with ideas, especially if it’s a product idea or an idea that could change a business. Those should be share after the requirement of money, not just given away for free. Do you value your body? Do you value your ideas? Cover them and share them only with those that are trusted. There is the public self and the private self. Bad things happen when the private self gets so public that assumptions can be made. Misunderstandings create the drama, not the good drama, but the bad. And so when someone says, “I see what you are…
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Thursday Seeds | Don’t Say It, Yell it!
This is a post for those of us that rarely ask for what we need. It feels uncomfortable and awkward to say the least. It feels like whining and weakness. And so, we just suffer through. And our kids watch us, the nephew and niece that look up to us do it too. They catch on that this might even be a sign of strength. We can play hurt and we can take a hit. We can sit down and be miserable and turn that energy into a true strength that others would see as genuine. And most times, it actually is. But there are times when that can become…
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Thursday Seeds | lay down the letters
“It’s all in how you lay down the letters.” You are playing board games with your date. It’s winter, the fire is on, coffee is on the table with this scrabble board. He is a fanatic about board games and impressed that you own a board from all the way back to the 90’s. You have how many words down on the board unchallenged? He has just as many. The game is getting cutthroat. He places this word on the board: QUEAN You look at him with hesitancy… Did he mean to? He nods his head slowly. “You want to have me look it up for you? It’ll cost you…
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Thursday Seeds | Monkey Mind
I should do this. In the middle of doing this, I need to do that! What’s the laundry look like? Did that kid of mine lock the door? Is the coffee pot on? [insert other appliance that can take you down this road] You know this road? It’s the road that keeps you from what you most need to do: CALM DOWN! Not one person can tell you to calm down and you do it. It almost never works unless you’ve done the work. Did you forget that person’s name that you are about to introduce? Worse, did you say their name wrong? “Where’s Jeff?” “Oh you mean Jim?” Oops.…
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Thursday Seeds | Feelings are Feelings
Do you know that feeling of someone that wants exclusive time with you? It’s nice. Do you know that feeling of some folks that want to exclude you from their time? Not nice. Maybe they included you before but don’t want to anymore. It begs the question why. Why would they exclude you? You did something they didn’t like. You were too loud, too sharing, too closed off, too pretty, too ugly, too petty, too not them… What’s your reaction to that? A feeling. There are opinions as to whether you were those things. There are opinions that it’s not even about you at all. …until it is. What are…
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Thursday Seeds| Plants are people too!
Plants can be as good at being friends as any person. They love it when you talk and they don’t talk back. Sure there is science behind that. O2 versus CO2 and who needs what and who expels what. In the 70’s, it was “talk” to your plants to make them grow. But now most folks are aware of the science behind it. I’m betting that this is pretty important stuff when you are in the orbit of our plant on the international space station. And now, most sustainable gardens are known too. Guess why. They don’t stop talking about them! Ha! You must be a plant! Here’s the trick,…
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Thursday Seeds | Math is the Way
Math and Calculus are used to create the strength of a lens that can correct our vision. Sure, computers do that mostly now but it’s all based on math, physics and calculus. Here are pictures for those of you that are already weirded out by this post. Math is not bad, it’s GOOD!! I know you could be traumatized by your early teachers, parents, friends that would ask, “You don’t know that?!?” or “You are wrong.” Do not let it! If the numbers stress you, think of the pictures. Circles, Squares, triangles. Not geometry theorems so much because they could also stress you. Stay in the fun side with me…
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Thursday Seeds | Get her to think
“Everything is a catchable throw.” [Epictetus] It’s a way around the idea of being perfect. And I don’t know about you, but I am far from it. And with that said, there are skill sets that I do have that should be celebrated and also cultivated. I’m alive and so I should still grow. I can plant seeds on my own behalf. I think we call them #intensions . I need to keep learning. It’s never a task that is done, it is constantly changing and moving just as I intake air. Change is not a bad thing, It means you are alive. No change equals DEATH. I’m not…
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Thursday Seeds| Boil Her Down
