December 21 – Future Self. Imagine yourself five years from now. What advice would you give your current self for the year ahead? (Bonus: Write a note to yourself 10 years ago. What would you tell your younger self?) (Author: Jenny Blake)
Dear Jean-
For 2011, remember how it feels to be truly alive. Remember to focus on the things that really matter and let go of the other stuff. Relax more, love more, laugh more, smile more. Tell stories, cherish family and friends, make art, read books, weep in the presence of beauty.
It's that simple. Stop making everything so hard. Just pretend it is easy, even when it doesn't feel like it.
Measure in Love-
Jean from December 2015
BONUS:
Dear Jean in December 2000-
It will all turn out. Trust yourself. Trust your skills and talents. Love yourself more.
Remember how it feels to be truly alive. Remember to focus on the things that really matter and let go of the other stuff. Relax more, love more, laugh more, smile more. Tell stories, cherish family and friends, make art, read books, weep in the presence of beauty.
It's that simple. Stop making everything so hard. Just pretend it is easy, even when it doesn't feel like it.
Measure in Love-
Jean in 2010
**I wish I could say I had already learned this lesson. I like to think that the 2015 version of what I will do is a bit more nuanced. I guess reminders are always good.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Letter to Movie and Theatre Goers
8Dear Movie/Theatre/Event Enthusiast:
Please understand that I mean this in the kindest way possible.
If an event starts at 7:30pm and you are with any more than 2 people and you show up at 7:29pm, please do not expect patrons who showed up ahead of time to accommodate you. Please do not ask me to skooch over or tell me your sad story of woe about how you want to sit together. I made arrangements to be there early with my people. You can do it, too. If you choose not to, please accept the consequences gracefully and quietly. Come in, find a seat, separate or together and sit down.
If you show up late alone, there might be seats. Please go to one and sit in it. If you show up late with a group, please assess the situation and then make a quick determination - either sit in the front where there are groups of available seats or sit separately. Do not wander to and fro in front of the screen talking about how full it is and are those 3 seats together in the back taken. The event has started.
That is all.
Thank you.
Jean
P.S. Nick Jonas should not have been given the role of Marius. 'Nuff said.
Please understand that I mean this in the kindest way possible.
If an event starts at 7:30pm and you are with any more than 2 people and you show up at 7:29pm, please do not expect patrons who showed up ahead of time to accommodate you. Please do not ask me to skooch over or tell me your sad story of woe about how you want to sit together. I made arrangements to be there early with my people. You can do it, too. If you choose not to, please accept the consequences gracefully and quietly. Come in, find a seat, separate or together and sit down.
If you show up late alone, there might be seats. Please go to one and sit in it. If you show up late with a group, please assess the situation and then make a quick determination - either sit in the front where there are groups of available seats or sit separately. Do not wander to and fro in front of the screen talking about how full it is and are those 3 seats together in the back taken. The event has started.
That is all.
Thank you.
Jean
P.S. Nick Jonas should not have been given the role of Marius. 'Nuff said.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Letter to Local News Media
Dear Local TV Newscasters and their Masters:
I have always been a regular evening news viewer. I usually take in some news before prime time (if I'm home from work) and almost always watch the 11:00pm news and sometimes Nightline (not since the format change, though). Over the past decade, I have become disillusioned and miss more and more nightly news casts. This topic comes up with my conservative and liberal friends and colleagues alike - the news is just not the news anymore.
Daily, I am more and more thankful for the internet and for the myriad other paths to actual news. If it weren't for alternative outlets for news and other pertinent information, I would think that every event in America, nay, the world had a "Portland or NW Connection". Additionally, I would never be able to go to another local restaurant because of the disgusting and sensationalized restaurant "reviews" that you show on a regular basis. I don't want to see stories on bedbugs for days and days in a row - show the story and move on for the love of Pete.
It is a little sad to see the old time newscasters reading the hideous and unfortunate "news" scripts and engage in uncomfortable banter. I can almost see them flinching when they have to go from a bombing to an invasive infotainment segment. I'm not sure why they stand for the disrespectful handling of the audience and the embarrassing way they insert themselves into the news stories. Please stop forcing the newscasters to chat with each other - I don't care what they think about health care or Tiger Woods or the weather in California.
One newscaster, in particular, is on my DISLIKE list for her pretentious attitude and ingratiating manner. Her interviews with some of the most vile criminals in the state and her "closeness and friendship" with some of the victims and their families has been such a turnoff that I simply cannot watch this person read any kind of news.
Please note that your "teaser" commercials really only serve to chase me to a different channel. Mostly, I just turn the TV off. So, I don't watch Leno, Letterman or Kimmel, either. I'm not sure the national stations know this, but perhaps they should...maybe that will be the next letter I write.
Respectful of my own time and sanity,
Jean
I have always been a regular evening news viewer. I usually take in some news before prime time (if I'm home from work) and almost always watch the 11:00pm news and sometimes Nightline (not since the format change, though). Over the past decade, I have become disillusioned and miss more and more nightly news casts. This topic comes up with my conservative and liberal friends and colleagues alike - the news is just not the news anymore.
Daily, I am more and more thankful for the internet and for the myriad other paths to actual news. If it weren't for alternative outlets for news and other pertinent information, I would think that every event in America, nay, the world had a "Portland or NW Connection". Additionally, I would never be able to go to another local restaurant because of the disgusting and sensationalized restaurant "reviews" that you show on a regular basis. I don't want to see stories on bedbugs for days and days in a row - show the story and move on for the love of Pete.
It is a little sad to see the old time newscasters reading the hideous and unfortunate "news" scripts and engage in uncomfortable banter. I can almost see them flinching when they have to go from a bombing to an invasive infotainment segment. I'm not sure why they stand for the disrespectful handling of the audience and the embarrassing way they insert themselves into the news stories. Please stop forcing the newscasters to chat with each other - I don't care what they think about health care or Tiger Woods or the weather in California.
One newscaster, in particular, is on my DISLIKE list for her pretentious attitude and ingratiating manner. Her interviews with some of the most vile criminals in the state and her "closeness and friendship" with some of the victims and their families has been such a turnoff that I simply cannot watch this person read any kind of news.
Please note that your "teaser" commercials really only serve to chase me to a different channel. Mostly, I just turn the TV off. So, I don't watch Leno, Letterman or Kimmel, either. I'm not sure the national stations know this, but perhaps they should...maybe that will be the next letter I write.
Respectful of my own time and sanity,
Jean
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