November 18, 2024
Good morning!
We are still enjoying the sweet, savory, and fresh flavours of garden tomatoes.
The few dozen green ones still on the vines as the first frost approached were picked, brought indoors, and placed in a sunny window.
They are ripening one or two at a time right on schedule — and though not as delightful as going outside to pick one just before lunch, not half bad at all; enjoy!
Fresh, succulent backyard garden tomatoes on November 18th — at the 45.569283rd parallel!
- This coming Saturday we have tickets to see Sponge Bob!
- And, speaking of Sponge Bob, Square Pants, is Chuck E. Cheese making a comeback? Not unlike Chili’s?!
- Keep those hands free to carry packages!
- The Amazonians are developing and testing eye glasses to serve as logistical smart screens so drivers don’t need to use their hands to search for directions to front doors, back doors, side doors, or delivery destinations.
- One wrong blink and your packages could end up on the Rottweiler’s step instead of yours.
- When you think about it, veterans of U.S. military service have had to fight for benefits promised to them for at least 250 years.
- Hundreds of promises, tons of bureaucracy, obfuscation, delays, changes in administrations, excuses – frustration.
- George Washington had to fight for them, Mr. Lincoln advocated for them, modern-day disregard is often shameful.
- Perhaps an exception was the so-called G.I. Bill which offered a college (or high school) education for soldiers returning home from World War #2?
- According to information just released from the people who study such things, more than 75% of the United States adult population is officially overweight or obese.
- I plead guilty… with no excuse, with one caveat: I’m much less so than a decade ago — and much, much less so than two decades ago. Trending in the right direction.
- Exactly how many different country music awards shows are there each year — and why?!
- If there is a consistently better show on network television, I don’t know what it might be: CBS Sunday Morning is top-notch.
- It’s not without its critics (puhleeez, you could do better?!), but the Ken Burns epic on Leonardo da Vinci is scheduled to premiere soon.
- It has now become popular du jour to paint Burns as a one-hit wonder as if his storytelling genre somehow falls short of the mark.
- Okay, fine, tell it to us in a better, more riveting, more transformational way — and please do it soon.
- The following on leadership is informed by Sternfels, Etc., et al., 2024:
- Leaders must develop and protect the mind, body and spirit.
- Leaders can’t lead if they don’t have a clear understanding of self and the positive energy that comes from that understanding.
- The best leaders focus on the team; it’s about others’ deeds, actions, and outcomes.
- It’s about the organizations’ mission, vision, purpose, engagement, and strategic imperatives.
- Leaders must be endlessly curious and not afraid to take risks, but then to learn from mistakes.
- Humility, vulnerability, transparency — not a know-it-all.
- Leaders must be stoic in the face of disruption; they don’t shy away from making tough decisions — they don’t disappear when things get tough.
- Believe it or not: A sense of humor — and the ability to bring levity to a variety of situations.
- Research-based: The best-performing leaders take the long (strategic) view.
- They are stewards of their organizations and realize someone came before them (except for start-ups, of course) and someone will come after them.
- The goal: Bigger, Better, Stronger, Healthier, Happier (Where have you heard that mantra before?!)
- Leaders must develop and protect the mind, body and spirit.
