Church, please

USATF logo and tag line
Our Country. Our neighborhood. Our journey. Note: USATF is USA Track & Field…a lifelong member.

Church, please, help us.

Church, are you behaving in a respectful, neighborly, inclusive way?

The noise level from the February 19, 2022 (yesterday) wedding reception was off-the-charts. The event was held outside in the Church Porte-Cochere area.

Do you know that just a 3dB increase in volume doubles the volume?

Now imagine going from 60dB to 100+dB.

It becomes residential noise pollution that defies logic, understanding, and practicality.

As wedding receptions go, sound volume was typical. So loud you have to shout ear to ear to be heard.

However, outside, surrounded by residential neighborhoods on all sides, totally disrespectful. By anyone’s standards, totally unacceptable noise levels.

Just checking for clarity, no one is above the law, right?

Note: This post (every post) is me writing to me, with the purpose of leaving a trail for our Son in case i’m not around (on the planet) and he has questions he wants to ask me directly. For example, “Hey dad, how do you handle community conflict or difference of opinion on what seems to be blatantly, and chronically, inappropriate behavior?”

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Dwell

Small bird and hawk confrontation
Do not let what you can’t do, stop you from what you can do.

You’re gonna change the world at work yet your home (and your life in general) is massively disorganized. This is the place that serves as HQ (headquarters) for your life.

Congrats on recognizing this, accepting it as fact, and using your (blindly) hypocritical lifestyle as your catalyst for personal transformation – for changing your world.

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World-class human blindspot revealed

Apple Home Pod
Arrived last night.

 

Apple Home Pod
Apple limited customers to only be able to order two.

 

Apple Home Pod
One for the office. One for our Family room.

 

Apple Home Pod
Steve Jobs books, my first iPhone box (3GS) and my latest iPhone box (X). Steve Jobs glasses and my first Apple watch upper right on book corner.

 

Apple Home Pod
Goal is two Home Pods for Family Room.

 

Notes to myself
Notes to myself yesterday while biking.

 

Here’s another version from yesterday exploring our universal human blindspot – if we lived our life with the same commitment and conviction as we expect others to have, our lives would be amazing.

 

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There is something about being willing to fail

Walt Disney Partners statue
How many close friends did Walt Disney have when he died?

 

There is something about being willing to fail that is profoundly motivating, at least to me. If you want to teach a child, you must actually do the things you preach – and do them well. The lofty theory you lecture them with is only theory (again, at least to me).

Theory without habitual action is worthless.

A picture of a tool is not a tool.

Theory is only theory.

Until it is not.

Here’s a theory…

To die with five friends is to die rich?

But isn’t more, better?

(no)

Much of what we are fed to believe is based on the herd mentality. Strength in numbers. There’s a time and place for that.

To each his/her own.

Then why do i have so many friends on Facebook?

(Have been struggling with social media. Occasional posts, like this one, are part of my journey.)

 

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Accepting ‘I don’t know’ for a lifetime is a form of codependency, no?

Thanksgiving Dinner table all set
Accepting ‘I don’t know’ for a lifetime is a form of codependency, no?

 

Three reasons why it’s time to figure it out:

1. What we see as weakness in another has actually been handed down to us from our parents (or guardians).

2. Not paying attention to our health manifests itself in different but similar ways – putting off a health habit for so long it backfires.

3. Not pushing back is part of being codependent.

We People are way more capable than we give them credit for.

Being organized enough so we can make regular exercise activity a part of our life is the responsibility of only one person.

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