Now that it's almost the first I anticipate full work days for a couple of weeks anyway. I'm on a list now with my properties listed under my name. I feel like I belong. Just kidding - I have felt that from the beginning.
I got a job and have actually WORKED very little during the last two weeks. It's sort of like when Larry got his present job. Because of delays he went for WEEKS with no actual work to do but he had to show up on the job site every day. So I'm doing what he did in a way. I'm using that time to get on the internet and READ. I love to read stuff that is history related. First I read a bunch of history and blogs about Deep Ellum and the Good Latimer Tunnel that was torn down. I've read about restaurants and the Dart Rail Line that for $3.00 I can get on in Garland very close to here and go downtown. Next time I do a Sunday downtown that's the way I'm going to do it. But sometimes reading stuff can actually be WORK in itself no matter how interesting it is so to be in a place where downtime is part of the routine and the internet is at hand one finds a blessing in disguise. Bartlesby's Books on Line is a great place to go and I came across H.G. Wells' Short History of the World. VERY interesting. I read a while and then jump to another place in the internet to search out more information on something I just read. I wouldn't do that sitting at home because there are too many EASIER things to do. What a blessing. And with this job I can look forward to this down time every month as soon as all the statements are done and month end is over. The work that trickles in after that is not much. Hmmm... Along the lines of God choosing or me I would never have dreamed of this possibility being available so I'm glad I kept my heels cool and didn't force anything and let him do the choosing.
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This past weekend I got to spend a lovely day with my younger brother who lives in Nebraska.
This is him - his name is Tim. Hot as it was Sunday we spent some time walking at White Rock Lake and I played the tour guide to Downtown. You should have seen us walking - his legs are about a foot longer than mine. I got a workout and you would have had a good laugh!
All my three brothers live in Nebraska. You would almost think we were from Nebraska and I left but that is not the case at all. We grew up in Louisiana and my second oldest brother settled there with his family many years ago and then a few years ago my youngest brother moved there to start a new life and found a good job and so he brought my oldest brother up there to stay with him at about the same time I was moving down to Dallas. So now they are there and I am here and we will have to find a good meeting spot somewhere one day.
You know family takes work sometimes. If ever there was a place for holding people tightly in your heart but loosly in your hands it's family. For sure my family. We are all so very different - or is it that I'm just different from everybody else. Maybe. Some families are close. These don’t take as much work. Larry and I have not found that to be the case with us and our families and it seems that our own family is following suit since our son lives a very different life than we do and even Shannon (daughter) has a life that is quite different from Larry and me. We are closer to her but we still have to stop and think about being family now and again.
But I do love my family – all sides of it and if ever there was a place to apply the principle of holding each other loosely this is the place. I have spent way too much time placing my expectations on them and dealing with what I felt like was their expectations of me. Not a good feeling either way and certainly not life giving. So I make it my business to appreciate them for who they are and respect their journey. There are times of family get togethers and I’m glad when that happens. I’ve learned to let them happen when they happen and not be trying to orchestrate them.
Well, those are just some thoughts about family.
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