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All These Years🎶
Empathy😊
Coyotes🧉
THE DAILY UPDATE
Three Things I’m Grateful For Today:
- Starting a new job, and the big box of that that they sent me.
- The meal Boy The Younger and I made for Wifey Poo for Mother’s Day. Our honey-glazed salmon, rice and asparagus came out great!
- Boy The Elder is now officially home from college. His last two-plus weeks of living with us begins. Wedding in 20 days!
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The song in my head when I woke up: “All These Years,” by Sawyer Brown
Favorite line from the song in my head when I woke up: Still I’m here/And still confused/But I can finally see how much I stand to lose/All these years…
Baseball Practice Tunes: I took Boy The Younger to the indoor baseball facility (AKA “The Facility” yesterday. We met one of his teammates, whom I helped with his pitching. And I listened to my Grunge Unplugged playlist.
- The Killer Is Me, Alice In Chains
- Porch, Pearl Jam
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Nirvana
- Heaven Beside You, Alice In Chains
- Got Me Wrong, Alice In Chains
- Pennyroyal Tea, Nirvana
- On A Plain, Nirvana
- State of Love and Trust, Pearl Jam.
Something I’m looking forward to today: A new day in my career begins at RGA – Reinsurance Group of America.
Something I’m looking forward to in the next seven days: Learning about my benefits in my orientation sessions.
Something I’m grateful for from yesterday: Wifey Poo. She’s an amazing mom who deserves to be celebrated.
What I’m writing: Yesterday’s Two Crappy Pages involved no writing but a lot of work setting up my new office workstation.
What I’ve written: The Power of Empathy: It is easy for Michael Miller to recount the most important lesson he learned in Northwestern’s MBA + MS in Design Innovation (MMM) program. It’s a skill he leverages every day as a program manager at Google.
I love living out in the country. The view out my home-office window is sometimes more like Wild America than anything else. I’ve seen foxes and deer and squirrels and rabbits and opossums and a huge variety of birds.
And now I’ve seen coyotes.
We’ve heard the coyotes for a few years. Their nighttime music is hauntingly beautiful, and it’s been fun to stand in the driveway and listen to the various packs communicate back and forth to each other.
But then the other morning, I saw one come out of the woods and walk along the edge of our grass before disappearing down a path that leads back into the wilderness. A few hours later, he was back … with a friend.
I know a lot of people consider coyotes nuisance animals, and I get this. If you’ve got chickens or small dogs, they definitely are a threat. But there’s something majestic about them to me. I am a huge fan of wolves (which, I know, is weird), and these coyotes are wolf-adjacent.
Still, my own dog isn’t that big, and she’s hella-stupid. So now I’m wondering if back-to-back days of coyote sightings are an issue I need to address — and how, exactly, to address it.
Hmmm.
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