May 9, 2022
Good morning!
Happy Feast of Saint Mothers’ Day!
Eighty-to-one odds… a big pay day, IF you placed your bet on the right horse. Did you? $2 paid $163
Only very recently did I learn there are 14 different races at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day, one of them more famous than the other thirteen combined.
- To our good friends in New Mexico: Be Safe!
- Many of those gorgeous mountains and freshwater streams experienced the soles of my hiking boots years ago.
Old Technology
- I’m not a big fan of being burglarized.
- It has happened to me a dozen or more times.
- It results in feelings of betrayal, helplessness, vulnerability, anger, disbelief, and a bunch of other stuff.
- The most recent experience was some of my (U.S. $) cash being burglarized.
- I enjoy having a few bucks in my pocket for, as they say, walking around town money.
- I’m not comforted when someone says, “Well, you dummy, don’t keep cash laying around where someone might steal it.”
- I don’t find those words helpful.
- Eighteen years ago my beloved and used-daily 35mm Nikon film camera was stolen from my car as I was purchasing petroleum products in Grand Forks, ND.
- If you are among my younger readers you won’t know what that is, but it was the premier forerunner of the now-ubiquitous electronic telephone cameras.
- To this day I miss the never-seen/ never-enjoyed photographs that would have been produced from the film that got stolen along with the camera.
- I hope s/he has framed the best ones and is enjoying them.
- I’m not comforted when someone says, “Well, you dummy, you should lock your car when purchasing petroleum products!”
- Just when we thought we knew what we should know about anxiety, we receive a compelling counterpoint.
- (Important disclaimer: This next section in no way minimizes the urgent need for addressing mental/ emotional health at all stages of life; we support it.)
- (Remember Point – Counterpoint? It was later parodied and spoofed on Saturday Night Live.)
- Dennis-Tiwary (Future Tense: Why Anxiety is Good for You…, 2022)
- “… (anxiety) isn’t a malfunction or failure of mental health. It’s a triumph of human evolution, a response that emerged along with one of our greatest attributes: the ability to think about the uncertain future and prepare for it.”
- “When we say anxiety is a public health crisis, what we really mean is that the way we cope with anxiety is a public health crisis.”
- “Treating anxiety like a disease prevents us from distinguishing between ordinary anxiety and anxiety disorders.”
- Hmmm? Pick up the book.
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that matters.” (Churchill)
- “When (working) with people, remember you are not (working) with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” (Carnegie)
- (Carnegie used “dealing” which Without A Vision LLC finds offensive and inappropriate… we don’t deal with people, we work, communicate, and relate with them)
Technology and Climate Change
- What technology will do the most to address climate change?
- Here are a few ideas from supposed experts:
- Ground-source heat pumps (Fitzgerald, 2022)
- New high efficiency air conditioning units (Winslow/ Lalit, 2022)
- Significantly more efficient strategic synchronization of solar, wind, storage (battery), transmission, and forecasting… (Nemet, 2022)
- Solar microgrids (Meier, 2022)
- Greener maritime shipping; e.g.., electric boats (Irigoyen, 2022)
- Here’s Without A Vision’s, but we don’t proclaim expertise: Lots fewer internal combustion engines — and probably fewer cows (which breaks our hearts to say it).
- Here are a few ideas from supposed experts:
- Here’s something inspired by Eades… someone different than Without A Vision, but with arguably an identical message:
- You always have a choice… step into growth or choose safety;
- Bad growth is rooted in outcomes; good growth is rooted in people and their inputs
- The words you say to yourself are the most important words you say;
- The best leaders focus on growing themselves and others — resulting in business being bigger, better, stronger, healthier, happier;
- Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
