My Dad took me on my very first RV trip when I was ten years old. He rented a fold up trailer that had six bunks in it and we went with two other families to Giants City State Park. It rained all weekend but we kids didn’t care.
Many years later, he and my step-mom bought a class c motorhome and went traveling.
Thanks, Dad, for teaching me about this wonderful life Dave and I are now living.
TTYL,
Linda
In this morning’s dream I was part of a small group of Americans chosen to help foreigners learn to speak English. The method of doing that was to assign us a very small cabin-type room in which we were to complete a project as a group. We had a few foreigners assigned to us and we began work on our project with everyone making an effort to speak clear English while doing so. As we proceeded, one by one more foreigners were added to our group making the room very crowded. Eventually, they began speaking among themselves in other languages which none of us Americans understood. Finally, I became exasperated and demanded to know if they had not come to this project to learn to speak English. “No,” one replied. “We already know how to speak English. We came here to learn to speak American.” Finally, the overcrowding of our room became unbearable and we decided to break into two smaller groups. We intended that some of the Americans should be part of each group but several of the foreigners decided to stay together to become their own group without the interference of the Americans.
That dream set me to thinking about language and it’s impact on belonging. We belong to many groups. Our primary group speaks RVing. The members of the group we met with last night speak railroading. When we meet with Dave’s former coworkers they speak computers. I know a few diabetics and, when together, we speak carbs. My newest group is Weight Watchers and they speak points. What groups do you belong to? What languages do they speak?
TTYL,
Linda
As you may have guessed, I sometimes have some weird dreams. Sometimes they seem to make sense. This morning I woke up having just finished a dream in which I was a student and the master (Think Yoda or The Karate Kid) was explaining to me, “Start when you are ready. Do what you do. Stop when you are done.”
Does that make sense? Of course it does. Let’s think about it.
“Start when you are ready.” How often have we started a project because we thought we should rather than because we were ready to do so? How did that work out? I’d guess not well. Wouldn’t it be better to wait until you can gather the right tools? And the right motivation? Do we sometimes have to declare ourselves ready just to get started? If so is that OK?
“Do what you do.” How often have we tried to do what someone else thought we should do? How often have we tried to imitate someone else’s perceived success? Wouldn’t it be better to recognize our own talents and develop them? Let’s try being ourselves and see if that works better for us.
“Stop when you are done.” That seems so obvious, but is it? How do you know when you are done? Is perfection required? Or can we stop at good enough? How do we decide when it is right to stop? Instead of just going on and on would it be better to pick a point at which we just stop?
Start, do, stop. I wonder if I can?
TTYL,
Linda
I stayed up last night until 2 am reading other people’s blogs, comments, and replies. Then I woke up this morning wondering how many of my readers never comment because they think they won’t get an answer to any question they ask? So, I decided I better explain my system.
Every comment made on my blog comes to me as an email. And I answer every one. As an email. That often starts a discussion that may go back and forth several times.
Some of those discussions become very personal but many do not. The ones that do not could, obviously, be posted to the blog. But, I now generally answer those comments using my iPad and I have not figured out how to copy from my email and paste to my blog. So, it is very seldom that my answer to one person becomes an answer to many.
Is this the best system for my replies? Maybe. Maybe not. What do you think?
TTYL,
Linda
I can’t say it any better than this.
http://badnickblog.com/2011/05/its-not-about-cookouts/
http://www.rvnetwork.com/index.php?showtopic=92018
TTYL,
Linda
