Waves

Ahh, the ebb and tides of life. Never a dull moment. And just when you think you're about to have a dull moment...the tide changes.

My seven-year-old son currently is working on a lunar science project where he has to draw the phases of the moon each night for 28 consecutive days. Of course, I love working with him on the project as he learns about things we adults take for granted sometimes.

His second grade class is studying also about the Sun, the Earth, and the Earth's moon. Their main focus is on the orbits of these celestial wonders.

I tried to explain to him how the gravitational pull of the moon's orbit causes us to have high tides and low tides. He looked interested anyways.

Those high tides and low tides also seem to effect other areas of our planet. I know statistics show that hospital emergency rooms and 911 calls increase with each full moon. Ask any nurse or cop and they'll all verify those conclusions.

Even though we don't actually "feel" them, we are constanty being inundated with all kinds of waves: radio waves, gamma waves, solar waves, mold spore waves, barometric "waves", so forth and so on.

Any business owner, especially in the print industry, will tell you that business comes in waves. In fact, I can just about guarantee that 99% of the time when I get a phone call about doing a new project, within 24 hours, either other current clients or brand new clients call in with their new projects! It's really amazing how predictable it is!

Of course, my business philosophy is each client is important and will get the same attention and quality work as if they were my only client. That's right–kind of like the Jerry McGuire/Rod Tidwell type of attention. In fact, I have said to one of my client's before, "Help me help you", but it wasn't in a shower room.

So, in the ebb and tides of life with oceans of invisible waves - there remains the constant anchor of hope: that today we'll get to experience the swells of life all over again and know it's just a part of life.

Enjoying the journey,

Kevin

A New Season

It's right around the corner. You can see the daily temperatures hovering just in mid-90s (here in southeast Texas). The kids are back in school. The fall routine is in place. Every chance the weather comes on the TV, I glue myself to the set anticipating for it to come. That's right, you got it. The first cold front of the season. It is the threshold of a whole new season.

Even in southeast Texas, we have seasons. Although they're not as marked as in some areas of the country or in the world. In fact, this has been a pretty mild summer here. It's definitely summer though and as you can probably surmise, I'm quite ready for the fall. It's not that I don't like summer. Summer's great! It's just that I like the fact that it's not going to last forever. Seasons change things. I love the variety seasons offer. It's like being outside on a hot summer day and on the horizon, you see the rainclouds. I always hope they come my way. Especially, if I need to water the lawn and garden and I haven't yet. Know what I mean?

So I know that this isn't tons of intellectual property you're currently reading here, but at least I've accomplished two things:
1. I've updated my blog and 2. I've connected with you as my faithful blog reader in looking forward to the future anticipating that our best days are ahead of us, not behind us.

Looking towards the horizon -
Kevin