February 24, 2025
Good morning! The brooch is back! Better start sorting through your great-grandmother’s jewelry box. We participated fully in the influenza/ common cold/ pneumonia/ RSV season this year, reportedly among the more significant statistically in Minnesota. The Amazonians have taken control of James Bond — his past, present, and future… but, he’s dead, isn’t he?!
- Do you ever splurge on yourself?
- What was your last big splurge?
- Do you ever have splurge-regret; i.e., buyer’s remorse?
- Of course, a splurge wouldn’t necessarily have to involve money, perhaps it was time — or discovery of the hidden-away gourmet chocolate turned white.
- The latest splurge around these parts? Pepper Grinders… and different vintages of black pepper. (Yum!)
- With airplane crashes happening more frequently in North America, what should we do?
- They’ve found another King Tut.
- The discovery came a few days too late for a reprise of the iconic Steve Martin musical sketch.
- Just as a baseball team from the United States might credibly claim to be world champions — with only one other country from among 205 involved…
- … isn’t it only fair for Canada to claim the ice hockey title?
- How about Curling — or surfboarding?
- And, on that note, have you been opening your history books to review everything you thought you knew about Amerigo Vespucci?
- Fascinating. Sharpen those senses and sensibilities.
- I doubt this existential dilemma exists in many minds, but I cannot not pursue it.
- Can it be called paella if it isn’t prepared properly in a paella pan — and if it doesn’t have the crusty bottom layer per Spanish tradition?
- More and more people are representing paella as nothing more than rice pilaf or — gasp! — that U.S. creation referred to as Spanish Rice.
- If you knew absolutely nothing about Impressionist artists, especially impressionist painters, would you be able to tell the difference between artists?
- For example, (again, starting from zero knowledge, just your impression) could you tell Monet from Manet from Cassatt from Degas from Renoir from Cezanne?
- Try it… let me know how you do.
- You probably need to have a partner set up the test — and to use lesser-known works.
- For this small brain, modern infrastructure is mind-boggling, absolutely mind boggling — and is just as amazing and fascinating as the Roman roads and aqueducts.
- This reflection was brought about after reading the plans for a new internet artificial intelligence cable to be installed beneath the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
- Costing billions of dollars, this cable will be buried — and will snake its way among the valleys, trenches, mountains and shipwrecks making up the floors of those oceans.
- Some ocean depths exceed six miles — deeper than the height of Mount Everest.
- C’mon!
- A cable consisting of ~31,000 miles will be needed (We can’t find data on the circumference).
- Now, think about this… it’s just ONE project among millions.
- From sewers, roads, bridges, electricity, water, dams, dikes, sidewalks, tunnels, train tracks, harbors, airports, and on and on…
- There is a clear investment case for improving employee health and well-being.
- Investing in employee health can substantially increase economic returns.
- Enhanced employee health and well-being could generate up to nearly $12 trillion in global economic value. (Jeffrey, Etc., et al., 2025)
- “Work can and should enhance health, yet it is not doing so for a sizable number of employees… only 57% reported good holistic health…”
- By making work a place that improves health, organizations can build a strong, productive, and engaged work force while releasing greater individual and organizational potential. (Ibid.)
- To read more on this subject — AFTER finishing these Musings: Good health = $$
