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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:06:05 GMT

Great surprise of a movie--just randomly checked it out of the Mountain View Library when I was procrastinating from my studying...

Full of an incredible array of famous actors, touches of humor, and only a little bit of iffy stuff.

Equated with On Golden Pond, which I haven't seen in years, so can't even remember how it would be similar.

Hmmm...

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:36:51 GMT

Just finished reading this incredible book (see above)--assigned to all incoming 10th graders, like Zack.

What a story.

Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into the Joy of your Lord.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:32:13 GMT

Well, I'm waaaaaay overdue here for an update; last entry showed the beginning phases of uni applications, this update is of the guy graduating...with prophetic blue and gold balloons in the background--the Blue and Gold of UC Berkeley, not just the colors of his high school...

Now that Natali has moved onto high school, I have two college kids and two high schoolers. Very weird.

Since i'm going to be studying like a maniac this summer, I think i'll post on here more often, since emails will become something of a luxury :-S

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:44:11 GMT

This is what we're doing around here....Siah's College Planner takes up half our hallway wall

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:54:50 GMT

It's been a month of traveling...


       Whoo hoo! Cappadocia!!


                        A road right through the Roman Age Aqueduct...


       Delicious meals all along the way


    And goofy times.

                With family picnics along the sea



    Until we left for the land of much rain and flooding--so we had tea in conservatories around the UK.

And now it is time for

        Home again,
            Home again,
                  Jiggety Jig...

Saturday, June 09, 2007

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:55:43 GMT

See how many of my kids you can spot in this video

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=edell&id=5380901

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:54:19 GMT

The last month has disappeared into thin air. Too many funerals (four), and too little time to process and grieve.

On the other hand there has been time to run in the beautiful hills and read some excellent books. In addition to the Leadership Challenge--which was most encouraging--I just finished a book today called Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders by Reggie McNeal. He really covered all the bases of what we truly have to prioritize if we are to move from being okay, even good leaders, to great leaders, ones that people love to be around and do things with. A lot of it is to always be learning, and even un-learning (like bad habits or subconscious things we do based on our family of origin).

Ta ta for now.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:59:25 GMT

Weary

Satisfied

Content

Sad

Deep

Joy

Fulfilled

Hope

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:13:34 GMT

Thomas and I were out running, and just after admiring a snow-capped hill across the valley, we got caught in pouring rain.

Wow. Wet, cold, and muddy. Pretty cool, tho.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:47:26 GMT

Well, as always, no matter how lousy one feels at a given point, there tends to be resolution--completion--in due time...because there has to be, you know?

The 24-pager is done. It represents about 1500 pages from three books (including the one above) that are very intriguing...getting us to see how we can be an on-going learning culture, not just a producing-stuff culture...

There's no way I can do it justice, though. I have to continue processing...

On another nice note, Siah and I got out into the beautiful morning and hiked/ran for just under two hours, completing 8.6 miles (but who's counting?!?). There were crystal clear blue skies, sparkling greenery, and fun conversation



     Going up Chemise Trail at Rancho San Antonio Open Preserve, and looking over at the PGE trail where we ran in December (see the white-shirted person in the distance?). Whew. We're getting around



                                  Looking down at where we'll be going next--Rogue Valley....gorgeous.