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JUST A MOMENT: WALK THE LINE

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We usually have no problems whatsoever walking the line if it happens to be a 4 inch line on the ground, BUT  a 1 inch wide tight rope thin line 160 feet above Niagara Falls, well.        .      .we still have no trouble volunteering to walk that line or riding that line in a wheelbarrow.  In fact, I’ll be the first one to VOLUNTEER YOU or SOMEONE ELSE to walk that line and others that might bring me danger, even if it means going from one significant point to another important place one treacherous step at a time.

Can you walk that line?

Or do you volunteer me or somebody else, too?

JUST A MOMENT: CHRISTMAS ON EASTER

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CHRISTMAS on EASTER?  
Absurd?
Blasphemy?
Unheard of?
Ludacris?
. . .right on time?

Christmas really never means anything, in fact, it probably doesn’t even exist unless Easter happens and gives it its own special definition. . . and in just a moment, adds colorful splashes of light on our traffic laden dim and darkened paths. . . .

SO.       .        .CELEBRATE THE SEASON (S)

JUST A MOMENT

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H          E          Y
JUST
A 
MOMENT

Seriously.          .           .
t  a  k  e
J    U     S     T
A 
M  O  M  E  N  T.            .              .
or at least

8.25 seconds

Average Human Attention Span Statistics.    .   .The average human attention span is 8.25 seconds. Attention spans can range from 2 seconds to over 20 minutes. The average human attention span decreased by almost 25% from 2000 to 2015. Humans have shorter attention spans than goldfish (9 seconds).

Psssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssst:
That was 10 years ago;
it’s even shorter now
So about a year ago I decieded to switch things up.
On my Wednesday Blog, I use to do an educational piece that usually read anywhere from 3 to 8 minutes
and given the current information on our shrinking attention spans
THAT’S
WAY
TOO
L                    o                       N                g
so roughly about a year ago
on Wednesday’s I began doing a quick
(less than 2 minutes)
video that’ll take you,
(you’ve got it)
JUST
A
MOMENT

If you wouldn’t mind,
I’d like your feedback or your feelings on this
format
so I can better inform
and at times
entertain
Y O U
but only if it’s
JUST A MOMENT
otherwise my attention span of a gnat
might not be around to
get the message
Just sayin’

 

JUST A MOMENT: FILLER UP

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So by now, you really know if you just got done watching this little video, this little clip that asks you the question:  REALLY, JUST WHAT KIND OF A PERSON ARE YOU?

You already knew in just a moment, you knew before the question was fully asked, didn’t you?   You probably knew just when you saw the screen.  Are you that person that fills it up or are you the person that’s content with ‘just enough?’  Now, in the end it really doesn’t matter because both of them are going to  get us down the road until we have to FILLER UP  or to be content with JUST ENOUGH again; but it’s interesting to know or maybe recognize, even if it feels a little bit uncomfortable, in this FILLER UP world are you comfortable with JUST ENOUGH, or are you always looking for just a little bit more.          .          .          ?

Psssssssssssssssssssssssssssssst:
YOUR NEXT MOVE WILL SAY MORE ABOUT YOU THAN YOU MAY WANT.          .         .

JUST A MOMENT: THE SCENE OF THE UNSEEN

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Oh to see the
S       C       E       N       E
in the
U     N     S     E     E     N.              .              .

In Just A Moment
makes
ALL OF THE DIFFERENCE
Go ahead.     .     .
L          O         O          K

L             O            O          K
a    g    a    i    n
and see.         .         .

anonymous person with binoculars looking through stacked books

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JUST A MOMENT: WHAT GUSHES OUT OF YOU

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So.            .            .

If you sprung a leak, what would gush out of you? Most of the time we think it would be all the bad things, all of the things that we wanted and we didn’t get.  All of our unmet expectations, our hurts, our losses, our disappointments;  but.            .            . but what if it would really be all those things that we just couldn’t hold back, all of the things we could never get enough of and want more of,  all of the things that mean the most to us:   All of our joys, every answered prayer, every good thing that just couldn’t be harnessed in all of our love, all of our unconditional kindness.

If you sprung a leak, just what would gush out of you?

Well, not only would we know,
but in a moment,
so what everybody else.           .          .

JUST A MOMENT: YOUR VILLAGE

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Honestly, our Village probably isn’t as perfect as we want it to be, not even when we are the creators of it all.  It may look nice from the outside. It may even run what seems to be very efficiently, but you see, the thing that makes our village, OUR VILLAGE, is that it’s not always quite the way we really want it to be.            .            .Even with the best of our imaginations.

But there is a good part: We are creators and an even better part: When we invite others in our village they are creators as well; Creators of not just what could be or what should be or what we hope or imagine, but what actually is and even when things don’t seem to run OK or alright, and literally, it seems like things have come off the tracks.  And yet, even then, there’s always still something that is bright and shiny and going on.

I have a question:  Just what kind of village have you created and who have you invited inside to be co-creator with you?

The answer may well be the difference of
KEEPING YOU ON THE TRACKS
OR.            .            .

JUST A MOMENT: REMEMBERING TO FORGET

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WELL.          .          .
Have you.          .          .
Have you ever walked into room and forgot why you walked in?
Hey, wouldn’t be great if we could forget to remember
what we really need to forget to remember.        .       .
The wrong somebody did us.     .     .
The story somebody told about us.        .        .
The word they used against us.          .          .
Hard to forget all of those THAT’S
but we have a nice saying that salt-in-the-wound-STINGS:
FORGIVE AND FORGET
or how about this one:
“I’ll forgive you, but I won’t forget it.      .     .”
W               E               L               L
Maybe it’s time.     .     .
maybe it’s really time that we do forget to remember
Seriously, right now, right here,
what it is that YOU need to forget to remember.          .          .
Uhhhh, guess what.          .         .
I T
doesn’t take a lifetime
or ages
or conditions
I  T
can happen in, in, in just a moment.           .          .
The question is,
WILL
I  T

JUST A MOMENT: ALL THAT AND A BAG OF CHIPS

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So here’s the truth truth of all truths.          .          .

and you don’t even have to be modest about it:

You are all that in a bag of chips
.            .
Sometimes you feel like, “Oh yeah I’m a bag of chips alright, the one that doesn’t always come out of the vending machine or the one that sits in backseat because I don’t know that it’s there and I forgot about it or the one that sits in your junk corner covered up by Twinkies, Ginger Snaps and assorted sizes of tootsie roll pops and pretzels, all crunched up”

See,  know, you add something to someone even if it’s just your you-est of you of yourself.

Here is the truth of all truths; The fact of all facts

YOU ARE ALL THAT AND A BAG OF CHIPS
OWN IT
ACT LIKE IT
and while you’re at it, pass the chips.          .          .

JUST A MOMENT: P L A C E S

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Do we ever really have a sense of
PLACE.          .          .
Usually it comes to us in moments when we’re at a
PLACE
or we’re sitting there reminiscing about all the
PLACES
and all the things we’ve done in those
PLACES
or better still
PLACES
to go.            .           .
All of this
PLACE TRAVEL
taking
PLACE
in JUST A MOMENT
Be more than a BLIP on an overview.      .       .
MAKE YOUR SPACE
SOMEONE ELSE’S
P L A C E

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