Category: Dear Son

All i want for Christmas

mother and son next to Christmas tree
December 25, 2025. Today.

All i want for Christmas is what any parent wants for their Family.

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Note: Yes, well aware this publishes long after Dec. 25, 2024. August 15, 2025 to be exact.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

Life has no favorites

child in hospital bed with a couple teddy bearst
One of his early colonoscopies. He always took his posse.

Live like you mean it.

How can you not?

Ps. You can. And you get to decide on the helpfulness from your decision(s).

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

Home is leadership

Paper credit card receipt
Today’s going rate for peace of mind.

Home is your lifetime HQ.

Home can be a house, apartment, condo, an RV, a tent. If you don’t have any of those and all you own is what you can carry, then HQ is wherever you lay your head for rest.

HQ requires consistent, never-ending decision-making.

Noteworthy: Even in choosing not to make a decision, we’ve still made a decision. i decided quickly. Procrastination wouldn’t repair anything.

If i were the principal driver of this car, repair decisions could have been procrastinated. i rarely drive. And when i do, it isn’t far.

Our son is the principal driver. So i agreed to every repair recommendation the car repair place offered.

It began as a simple tire patch and replacing a turn signal lightbulb. This morning i traded $3,100 for peace of mind.

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Disney keynote speaker objectives slide
Have long believed that if it isn’t fun, i’m not doing it.
Apple's Keynote admin screen
Left column, this is the first slide. And, then look at the third slide down.
Apple's Keynote admin screen
By the way, this second slide is a “pre-demonstration” of the first objective in the next slide. Who doesn’t like fireworks over Cinderella Castle? And when was the last time the second slide of a presentation you attended had Disney fireworks?

Been saying this since 2014…

Have fun.

.think .differently

Lean into discomfort.

Note: These are my three keynote speech objectives.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

Dear Son category, home

Apple Watch fitness app screen inside Publix grocery store store
Waiting at Pharmacy. Still 1.5 miles from home.
Apple Watch fitness app screen inside Publix grocery a residential lot
Walking in our backyard after Magic Kingdom and “free” vaccines.
Apple Watch fitness app
After all the goodness of the day, a great night’s sleep is a welcomed, and an expected, reward.

Dear Son,

Writing for myself, first and foremost, has helped me be a better parent.

How do i know?

Gut feeling.

Writing everyday forces me to think deeper, reach higher, care more, and work harder.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.