One of the pleasures – yes, I said it: pleasures – of a lengthy daily commute is the opportunity to listen to audiobooks without spending weeks on each one. Sure, I probably could read with eyes faster than I listen, but the drive is time that I wouldn’t have spent reading with my eyes anyway…
Month: October 2021
Visualization
Recently I listened to an interview1 with a beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medalist Alix Klineman. I was plugging along at work, giving the interview really just half my attention – if even that much – until she described being down in the middle of her first qualifying match for a tournament as a…
Shadows
Fall has arrived here in northeast Ohio, marked most significantly at my house by leaves: the brilliant orange, red, and yellow hues as they stop producing chlorophyll, the massive piles we’ve raked already, and the quantities that still linger both on the ground and as yet unfallen on the trees. The air has not yet…
The Goodness of the Lord
Take time to enjoy the little things, they tell us, the simple pleasures that make life enjoyable. I will be the first in line to agree with that philosophy. Lingering over a steaming cup of good coffee in the quiet stillness of the early morning. A stunning view of a gorgeous landscape spread out before…