Strategy:
A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime
after those creating it have left the organization.
Archives for February 2015
Wisdom
My mother-in-law is ninety-two years old, and getting a little… fuzzy in the memory department. I found this list from her caregiver, Mary, with these life lessons:
Here are a few things that Ms. E has learned:
- The hand held telephone will not change the TV Channel, nor does it have a mute button.
- If you tease the cat with your sock and then put it on your foot, the cat will bite it.
- The TV remote does not work very well after being in the freezer overnight.
- Fully used toilet paper that is placed in the trashcan beside the toilet will make the bathroom stink.
- If you are going to set up the coffee maker for the next morning, it works better if you grind the coffee beans first.
Here is the most important thing that I have learned:
Never ever bring any of these things to Ms. E’s attention.
Beginnings
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
~Semisonic in “Closing Time”
Personal Year, New Beginnings
Someone told me long ago that one’s “personal year” starts on the person’s birthday. Today is my birthday, and so I begin another year.
I went out this morning, planning on gifting myself with a long drive, to find that my car had been replaced with a hummock of snow. I was tempted to head out anyway, but what with this being a Monday and all, staying home might be a good thing.
Merlin agrees. I opened the door so he could go out, knowing that he wouldn’t. He looked at the snow, watched it fall, meowed in an annoyed fashion, went back to his favorite chair (mine) and is now napping.
I’ve been relegated to the computer chair, but I have the hot Ovaltine. Life is good.