Daily Miracles & Musings
Two quotes caught my attention today:
One from Albert Einstein, and one from Elvis Presley.
Maybe you can tell which one is which?
Quote #1: Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Quote #2: Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave them all over everything you do.
Then there are facts that have come to my attention. Didn’t know before I read them. Actually I haven’t fact-checked them, so they may be “alternative facts”.
As if there were such a thing! LOL
This day, in
1895, The first professional football game is played in Pennsylvania.
1954, “The Lone Ranger” is heard on radio for the final time after
2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.
1976, NASA’s robotic spacecraft, Viking II, lands on Mars.
This day, in 2024, my dining companion and I were speaking of San Francisco. He said, basically, it’s gone to hell with all the homeless and crime. He said some more words about what he saw as a dismal state of affairs, something about USA politics, going downhill fast, and someone has to do something.
At some point, when he gathered his breath to say more, I inserted my comment that the presidential election will set the stage for a renewal of our democracy, or the instigation of a dictatorship. Or maybe neither. Maybe something else.
It got real quiet.
I’m chewing my food.
I think he was chewing on the words he’d heard from me, and wondering what to say next.
Now that I have used the words I’ve written so far to wander through the highways of my mind, I’m returning to the two quotes with which I began.
When I reflect on how I’m spending my time, energy, effort and focus these days, I have the sense, like my fingerprints, of my values “all over” what I’ve been up to.
And the creativity I’ve been flowing with has been so fun and engaging I’m tickled about the t-shirts I’ve been designing.
I experience the designs I’m creating are in full alignment with my values of contribution, fun, creativity, word-plays, taking action in doing my best…
And…on this day, September 2nd, 2024, I am exasperated to say that I do not have the money I need to pay my September rent and bills. Shortfall of about $2,400. Dollars. Yeah. I’m doing what I can to invite income to, well, come in.
I’m doing my best to do my best, and leaving the worrying and suffering for some other time. Like never.
Listening to music inspires me. Songs like
By The River by Bob Seeger and Circle of Angels by the Woodys
My friends and colleagues support me!!! I appreciate you all so much!
I am doing my best to be TAN (Time Aware, Action Oriented, Needs Based.)
It’s 10pm. I’m excited to create some more designs!
Oh - and in case you have interest in any of these, I’m linking them:
Zooming practice groups, offering 1:1 zoom sessions, posting video recordings (almost 50 so far) on my You Tube channel (subscribe to support the channel), asking friends and supporters to contribute on my GoFundMe campaign, designing t-shirts & setting up shops on etsy, Shopify (in process), TeePublic and Amazon merch on demand (I’ve applied but not yet heard from them).
Until we meet next…