Archive for December, 2006

Freedom from playing small

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Quoted by Pamela Slim:

“Playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around us.” — Marianne Williamson

I’ve been considering various career changes, and it’s rather arduous to think about — the easiest thing is to just stay where I am, just keep plugging along.  But I have the feeling that I’ve got to step up and proactively make a big change to enable bigger and better opportunities.

Outside the snow is fallin’ …

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

DSC_2231.jpgA lovely winter blizzard blew into town this morning. I decided not to drive into work, and I’m glad I didn’t. The school closed down early, and when I tried to drive the .5 mile to get Caleb and Trent, my car got stuck about 50yds from home. I managed to make it back to the garage and took the van instead.

My neighbor was out shoveling his driveway when a large school bus tried to turn the corner and just kept on going. The rear end of the school bus ended up in his driveway, with just enough of a downhill slope that it was not going to go anywhere fast. He got to play host to about 10 kids for a while, most of whom were rescued from other stranded buses — I hope they’ve all managed to get home by now.

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We are hoping to be skiing at Copper Mountain on Friday… odds are good that we won’t be making it. A state of emergency has been declared for the whole state, the airport is shutdown, school and work are closed. We’ll just have to spend some ‘quality’ time together at home.