Day 2 of Blogging: Oh great insights and observations, where are you?

Hi! Day Two (2) of the Blog life.  Yeah!! I am back and my blog is not discarded as yet another attempt to reflect on life in a deep and meaningful way — only to get too busy reacting to life to reflect.  Okay, I know my blogging rules involve no concerns about grammar — I would like to add that I can also write long and awkward sentences that are hard to understand.  Although — I promise that I will try to avoid this!

 Okay, I am stalling.  This blog is about sharing my insights and observations about organizational, professional and even personal life experiences, because after all we are all people who take on organizational and professional roles.   The tricky part is accessing these great nuggets of insight and observation…much easier to prattle — that is a word, right?  I just have never written it before. Back to the point, it is much easier to prattle on than to come up with something wise today.  I think I have put too much pressure on myself early on in blogging life.  How about I share thoughts –period? Some thoughts may be profound (I am sure I am capable of profound thought given practice) and others may be ramblings.  I definitely can ramble.  In fact, I enjoy it.  I like letting my thoughts run around, sometimes in circles, other times like something jumping from train track to train track.  It is hard to describe, but there is an energy about it.  Other times, I love structure.  I mean, I REALLY LOVE STRUCTURE.  Some people love flow.  My wonderful friend and colleague, Margaret, flows.  She is wise and beautiful.  She is creative and powerful. Like the water that cuts through stone and made the Grand Canyon, she has the ability to transform.  I think of myself more like a city planner: I think; I plan; I dispatch; I build.  My dear Father has a PhD in Transportational Engineering; he worked designing streets for many years. He is a GREAT planner.  I like to think that I inherited my gift for planning from him.  I am learning to embrace flow.  Structure by itself has gotten a little too boring, through I do still respect the power of order and a well excuted strategy.  Many sentences back, I was talking about thoughts.  Let’s make this blog about sharing thoughts — and let them be what they are.

So today, let me think about what I can share…

 My daughter has her learners permit.  She was driving today and switching lanes.  She needed to get over to the right lane to make a turn.  As she tried to get over, the cars in right lane sped up and would not let her over. She made it over, but it triggered a discussion on drivers who don’t let other drivers over.  Why is this? Why do some of us let people in front of us and others of us speed up?  When it is all said and done, will it matter?  I think so.  For everyone we won’t let over, well that is a person that experienced a lack of support, a lack of caring, and a lack of love.  They needed to make it over to get to their exit, make their turn, etc. and we made it a little harder for them.  For everyone we let over, we demonstrated regard, caring and love.  Does love seem a strong word?  Love is STRONG. I say let’s spread it around.  Let’s let that driver over and wish them a great day. 

 That’s all for today.  See ya soon…