I went to quite a few “summer camps” during my corporate career. These were multi-day seminars most often in the summer to teach me one thing or another about how to do my job better. They were rah rah sessions to keep me excited about what I was doing. Some of them were worthwhile, some were just boring. But since the company paid all the … Continue reading About Knowing…
For some odd reason I am particularly attracted to old large group pictures and boxes. Here are some boxes from the Patee House Hotel Museum in Missouri. Continue reading Patee House Hotel Museum – Boxes
I have a separate category in my photo library for boxes, signs, and such. A box can tell you much about our history. Here is one of my favorite box pics. Shaker seeds were thought to be the best of the best in their day. Continue reading Boxes…
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, KY – Boxes I know that boxes are not an American invention but we can certainly learn a lot about our history and where we come from by studying them and that is just what I do. We visit many historic sites around the U.S. and I am constantly on the lookout for boxes, Hoosier Cabinets, and group pictures. A … Continue reading Boxes…
One of my many hobbies is to collect pictures of unique boxes and signs. Here is part of that collection Continue reading Boxes & Signs
This is a continuation of my previous post about boredom and apathy. In high school not much changed as far as a lack of a challenge. One of the things I did enjoy there was writing essays. That activity gave me free rein to say what I wanted and I always easily got A’s for my work. Unfortunately I was never guided toward an avocation that would have exercised that talent I definitely showed even in my early days.
After high school college came. That is where I came upon the first real challenges in thinking. Again I excelled in English Comp classes without much effort and the electrical engineering classes I took were challenging but not particularly enjoyable to me. That should have given me a clue that I was in the wrong major but being a naive farm kid that I was that just didn’t occur to me that I had options.
Here are some words from a fellow blogger’s page that I kind of borrowed. Thanks Syd for the idea: York University professor John Eastwood explains that boredom is just “wanting to, but being unable to engage in satisfying activity.” He goes on to distinguish boredom from apathy. “The [bored] person is not engaged but wants to be. With apathy, he said, there is no urge … Continue reading Boredom, My Personal Journey — Part 1
I am by no means a sports fan but it was hard to not know about all the mania around Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos lately. There was much talk about how it was written that God had destined the Broncos to win the Superbowl this year. The reason for this belief is that Tebow is a very visual Christian who is not afraid … Continue reading God Is….
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