Life is speeding up (temporarily, I hope)

Sandbags on the gondola of a hot-air balloon.

I had a conversation with a very nice lady who is in her late thirties today. We were talking about the challenges of getting older as she described how her relationship with her parents and in-laws changed over time.

We all need some stress in our lives, otherwise we become depressed. Likewise, we cannot have too much stress or it pounds us into the dirt.

It is a bit like surfing. There is a range of places on a wave where surfing is possible and life moves forward gracefully and with ease.

Consequently, we all need a brake and a throttle to modulate the amount of stress in our lives.

One of the struggles is that as we age our baseline tolerance for stress isn't as high as when we were younger, even though the variation of stress coming at us doesn't get smaller. In fact, the stresses get larger as we are on fixed incomes and the number of people who expect us to "help" with time or $$$ seems to increase.

Furthermore, the variation in our ability to resist stress has wider swings. We have periods of low energy, often for no knowable reason. 

That makes our ability to anticipate surges well in advance very important, so our application of the brake or throttle has time to take effect.

The next four weeks

My crystal ball tells me that claims on my time will multiply over the next four weeks. It isn't just one thing, the demands come from several different sources.

The quality and quantity of blog posts will be spotty. 

This too will pass.

Your patience will be appreciated.

 

Random BS

Eleven-year-old student disarms another student who brought a gun to school.

Lansing School District expelled the eleven-year-old student for violating school district policy.

Lansing is about 20 miles north of Eaton Rapids. Kudos to the kid who know how to drop the mag and rack the slide to clear the weapon.