Foolishness,
madness all around.
Bold statements valuable as future checks bounced.
Words spoken,
often without meaning.
Repeated,
parroted,
no hint of question,
of doubt. Continue reading
Tag Archives: worry
A Talk With Ted About Growing Up With Aspergers, Revisited
As I am quietly trying to sort out a head full of conflicting and controversial thoughts about the world and autism, I thought I would republish this post from January 2012. I liked revisiting this post and being reminded of how Ted sees the world and his place in it. For someone so young, he has a tremendous sense of self-awareness. He doesn’t trip over so many of the things a lot of us trip over. (Things I am currently tripping over.) No. He learns but he doesn’t over think. He adjusts but he doesn’t over analyze. He just does. And then he presses on without worry and without regret. To me, Ted so succinctly sums up what it means to live an authentic life. Continue reading
What A Flash Drive Taught Me About Scarcity And Abundance
For months my colleagues have been upset. No need to go into details because, well, really, who cares about the problems at work. The details aren’t the story anyway. The story is a few days ago I went to bed bummed from weeks of absorbing negative energy.
See, my energy filter is non-discriminating. It lets the negative in at the same rate as the positive. Most of the time I can rid myself of the bad stuff before it builds up, but sometimes it comes on so strong, and with such volume, I cannot. This has been the case lately.
When too much negative hits me, I get exhausted. I am old enough now I recognize this is happening and when it does, I go to bed.
Shutting off the world, and my body’s reaction to it, works better than anything else. Continue reading
Laughing: Kids 300, Adults 4
According to an article on Psychology Today’s website the average four-year-old laughs 300 times a day, and the average 40-year-old laughs only four.
We grown ups are seriously lagging behind.
Yes, we have lots of responsibilities, problems to solve, people to see, but we also need to lighten up and laugh more. If we did, maybe some of those problems would be solved because we would see they aren’t actually problems after all – they were just us – being too serious. And the problems that are still there, well, with a dose of laughter, maybe we would be more ready to tackle them.
So here is Life and Ink’s effort to boost the laughter rates amongst adults and take a little weight off our shoulders, at least for a moment…
All the credit for the design and production of this card goes to Scott Metzger and to Papyrus.
All the credit for finding the card goes to my daughter Meg, who immediately recognized her dad would easily exceed four laughs when he read it.
Which of course, he did. 
While I Couldn’t Write
“We haven’t told the others yet,” my coworker said to me yesterday. “They aren’t going to take it as well as you did.”
“As well as I did…” Her words lingered in the air as I felt my mouth fill with what I wanted to say. And it all was very negative.
“Not yet.” I told myself. “Say nothing.”
I got up to get a glass of water.
But mostly I got up to get away. Continue reading
