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I wish Mother’s Day was during the week and not on a Sunday. It would really work for us, because we seem to fight more on the weekends than during the week when everyone is busy.
As my friend Sarah said in her #ippp post for this week: “This is my life. The potential for greatness or disaster.” Truer words have never been spoken, my friends - and this Mother’s Day we walked the fine line between greatness and disaster.
With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.
Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.
Is he like the coolest astronaut ever or what?!?
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Not enough play and too much work makes for a cranky family - so we decided it’s time to introduce Family Fun Day Sunday.
We did two so far - nobody cried and nobody puked - and that counts as a win in my book.
Mix a grumpy, back-and-knee-pain-ridden father, a stressed-out-worry-about-everything mother, a teenage daughter and a genius-yet-super-sensitive pre-teen in the mix and there are usually tears and vomit involved - but not this time, people! We are making this count!
Our first outing went to Harmon Lake and along Kane Valley Road - here are some pics:
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A couple of weeks ago my third book was published. It’s the second one I wrote for the German publisher Iwanowski and it’s called “101 Kanada Westen - Geheimtipps und Top Ziele”. It is a travel guide, but not a traditional one describing routes and “hard facts” - it highlights extraordinary experiences and the stories behind them.
Anyway - it was a lot of work to write it, but I loved every minute of it. Needless to say I’m pretty stoked about it and I carry one of my author’s copies around with me at all times…
And sometimes, when I show people, they say: “Wow, that is a *real* book”. You know, like they were expecting something home-made. Like when I tell them that I wrote a book, they think I sat down and started drawing something…
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I went offline for three weeks and got a lot of shit done! Well, I kinda went offline - since a lot of the work I do includes managing Social Media for clients I was there, but not really. Doesn’t make sense? That’s fine - let’s move on.
I read a fabulous book this month - Brene Brown’s “Daring Greatly”.
The book begins with Roosevelt’s quote - which explains the title, sets the tone for the book and summarizes it in a few words.
Show up and let yourself be seen. Dare to be uncomfortable and deal with it. Act with honesty and integrity and choose respect and accountability over “fast & easy”. Engage rather than disengage and act like the adult you want your children grow up to be. Distinguish shame from guilt and be all in.
