It is important to remember that politicians are people. They have children and pets. They have worries and hopes. They have faced obstacles and suffered losses.
Too often we gain only a very shallow understanding of who the politicians are. If you know that a politician has lost a child or survived cancer, it makes it easier to see them as a person. Even if you do not agree with them politically you may find that you have a lot in common.
She called me at 4 a.m. in tears and babbling on that her new sofa had just been delivered and was 1” too long.
What?
In between her sobs and shrieks of “what am I going to do?” I finally figured out the gorgeous new sofa she had waited for weeks to be delivered was about to annihilate her carefully engineered Feng Shui.
Longtime friend, Cassie, who lives in London, tends to be a bit emotional when things don’t go as planned. She morphed into a Feng Shui fruitcake after meeting an alleged guru on the subject a few years ago.
It is 12:18 a.m. on Friday, June 29 and I cannot sleep. The day prior, five people, Rob Hiaasen, 59, Wendi Winters, 65, Gerald Fischman, 61, John McNamara, 56 and Rebecca Smith, 34, were shot and killed in the offices of the Capital Gazette, a newspaper based in Annapolis, Maryland. Two others were injured in the shooting.
Thinking back to when you were little you can probably remember the love and fun times with grandma and grandpa. It was a sweet love, wasn't it? Now fast forward to you being all grown up a job, a wife, kids of your own and probably even blessed with your own grandbabies now. Now you are a grandma or grandpa with the love you had when you were just a young one, but now you know family core values and the sense of love and protection for your very own little grandbabies.
While driving in Italy is a stressful and unnerving experience, we have unexpectedly returned with some insight to several possible traffic calming strategies. (Please note that we are referring to traffic calming- not driver calming.) Traffic calming is a pertinent subject in Hernando County and has been discussed by The City of Brooksville for their downtown area and in planning for the Kass Circle redevelopment. One particular strategy (the roundabout) will be implemented by FDOT within the next couple years.
I love to write (and talk) and all who know me will agree that I am not a man of few words. As a windy minister, it only seems logical that I would be involved in the world of communication. For the last few years I’ve been writing “Living on purpose” and it’s truly been a pleasure. I just want to say that I sincerely appreciate all of you that take the time to read the column and the many thoughtful and encouraging emails that I receive each week. I’ve been writing sermons, articles and music for a long time which eventually branched into a weekly blog.
Many Americans have lived an idyllic life. We have had no war reaching our soil, have a solid economy and have sufficient credit or income to purchase almost any item we want immediately. This is truly a materialistic, instant gratification culture. Most adults like their children, want whatever they desire. This creates a lifestyle that too often places them on the edge of insolvency. These incessant purchasers scramble to maintain their lifestyle of spending.
My brother, Night Stocker, called the other day, and for once we didn’t talk about Exwork. Instead we spent forty-five minutes discussing our watching habits of television and movies. Turns out we’re quite alike. We both speed watch—not to be confused with “speed reading,” which was a huge commercial scam in the eighties, and for a shorter time in the aughts. (But it wasn’t like Pet Rocks, exactly. Those were knickknacks, and I think there should have been cages for zoo rocks, and little houses for domesticated rocks with rock families.
Like so many holiday weekends, this is one of those times when folks are happy for a chance for some fun at the beach, on the water, in the mountains or just any place to get away from it all and rest. But few have any idea why they have the time off in the first place.
