Category: thought

Our daughter, who turned 18 this year, voted for the first time today. The world will begin slowly changing in the right direction now.

A perfect late summer salad: Small cubes of watermelon. Small cubes of cucumber. Crumbled feta. Chopped mint. Toss together in a bowl. Enjoy.

Performing circus can teach kids about hard work, dedication, teamwork, performance, etc. Most importantly, it teaches kids how to fail in front of a crowd, get back up, and try it again. “Smile and Style” as they say. The crowd, for their part, will cheer even louder when you get it the next time.

Give me an Irish funeral and an even more Irish wake. I have but nary a drop of Irish in me but I hope those that mourn can make it up in whiskey. I want singing and dancing and music and drinking — drinking enough to remember but not so much as to forget.

It’s all going too fast.

Tonight is the opening night for Whimsy. The final opening night for Beatrix at Circus Juventas. I’m not nearly as emotional as I will be for the final show on August 9th but close.

She’s been performing there nearly her entire life (since age 3). It’ll be hard to imagine it without her.

We often forget how inexpensive it is (often free, in fact) it is to completely make someone’s day/week/year or, even, give them a memory they will cherish for life.

How to deal with your kid leaving • Buttondown

Boy did I need to read this.

For the record, I don’t believe in management. I don’t believe one should have to manage people. I believe if you hire the right people, they don’t have to be managed — the work simply gets done. If you have people you have to manage, you should fire them and replace them with people you don’t.