HeyJaredTake Pen to Paper
Stories and essays about gratitude and the good in everyday life.
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Finding Gratitude And Good In A Tech Nightmare (opens the original)
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Good Day, Friends!“And you know how it is when you’ve got some device on which you depend for all manner of little tasks that, perhaps, once you could have done without but which is now entirely essential to your well-being. …The sense of aggrieved helplessness that, oh no, I’m going to have to get this fixed now, or i won’t be able to do all the stuff I need to get done.” -from Elder Race, by Adrian TchaikovskyThis week, my email was hacked for the second time. And I still say it’s a good day.
A Little Knowledge Takes You Only So Far (opens the original)
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Hi, Readers,As you know from a recent newsletter edition, I am now the proud caretaker of an aquarium of fish. Things are going along swimmingly for our tetras, cory cats, and plecostomus. So swimmingly that I decided it was time to let my younger granddaughter pick out a fish to add to the community.I employed my knowledge of working with children and researched fish options to come up with a plan for a smooth expedition.I would be shopping with a four(almost five)-year-old, so I wisely decided
In Praise Of A Task List (opens the original)
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Hello fellow laborers!With Labor Day here (already!), I can’t help but wonder what makes you feel productive.I suppose it is different for each individual, because we labor at our own work. We may not even think about what we are laboring at as work. The question might also be, how much of my “work” do I need to do to feel productive? We also must consider how we measure our productivity. Do you feel productive because you stayed on task all day? Is productivity doing the one thing that’s been h
Looking Forward (opens the original)
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Hi, Readers!“Gratitude and Good in Everyday Life” never goes away.This is a friendly reminder that this week you will find my shareworthy thoughts from my journal in my newly separated newsletter, “Take Pen To Paper: When the Pen Meets the Paper”. The first edition comes out Saturday, August 29, and you must subscribe to receive it. You can do that here.Do you have questions about the craziness of my thinking in doi
Letting Go Of My Idea Of Perfection (opens the original)
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Hello again,What is something you wish were perfect? We throw the word perfect around effortlessly: the perfect day, perfect cake, perfect score. The list goes on.But perfect doesn’t exist. The idea of perfection can get in the way of being present in the moment and the reality of our life. It gets in the way of gratitude for what we have.Yet somehow we grow up with the idea that we need perfection in our lives. Unknowingly, or maybe not, we still impress on children that perfection is a goal. W
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