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Bob Burke , an industry friend/sage and long time advisor to dancing Deer gives us a calendar every year called Demotivators from Despair, Inc. It’s the only calendar I look forward to receiving. I keep it turned to the photo of the soccer player rolling on the ground clutching his knee in agony. The quote reads, “WHINING: If you expect to score points by whining, join a European soccer team.” My 15 year old son was visiting the office yesterday and he flipped to the picture of the strange statues on Easter island and read the caption out loud, “PRIORITIES: Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. . . but the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction”. And then he paused for a moment, looked at me thoughtfully and said, “Mom this sounds like you. You should have this one out, not the whining one! He may have a point. And in closing I’ll leave you with the one I had previously missed until just now while flipping through for this blog, “BLOGGING: Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.”

Actually I’ve been encouraged (for years now) to get with blogging and I couldn’t see that I had great value to add. And the last thing we need is more clutter. However, I’ve discovered that it can be fun too and I’m all about that. And the holy grail for me is the combination of fun and positive impact – so with that goal in mind I’m shooting a few thoughts out in to cyber space.