The older I get, the more it helps to grunt when I pick up things off the floor, which gets further away each year. #rmdo
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Friday, February 16, 2018
Responibility #rmdo #humor
The oldest child is most responsible. Something goes wrong, parents say SO YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE?!
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| The Dittmer Family a long time ago! |
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Daytime Sleep, Power Naps, and Ambition
I wrote a note to a friend: How to sleep in the daytime.
Silicone ear plugs. sleep mask, fan, and sometimes television just under the level that demands attention. It also helps to have a nap watchdog. My late wife Lynne used to do that. Mary also does an excellent job now.
Just ask me. I'm a professional daytime sleeper.
Also, grasshopper, empty your mind of any compelling problems and questions. My problem is ALL questions are compelling.
Consider yourself blessed if you can get a ten minute power nap. I could then get up, work 3 or 4 more hours, then take another power nap.
I once went several months on an average of 4 hours sleep. Martha Stewart and President Trump both do well on 4 hours sleep. I think Solomon did, also. The great inventor, Thomas Edison, went months at a stretch on 4 hours when on a major project.
But I have switched to the other camp, 9 hours or more. I joined this camp when I decided to forgo my depression medication at the time I decided to drop all health insurance at age 62, while taking an early retirement.
I noted that great athletes often sleep longer than 8 hours to get full recovery. Lebron James is an example.
I am lucky to still be alive, but power naps are indeed powerful. Power naps at stop lights are dangerous and irritating to drivers behind me. Also, I had decided to stay awake to listen to a dear friend, my brother Ted, but my body would disagree and say, "Time for a quick power nap."
At the factory, I could sit on a small reel, and take a power nap while a reel ran out, and wake up in time to to stop the reel.
I could power nap in class at Bible College and when the Professor woke me with a question, I could replay the question in my mind, say it out loud, then answer the question. My late wife Lynne was sitting beside me once. She asked, "How do you do that?! You were snoring!!"
My problem is and always will be I had and have too many ambitions and interests. In Bible College I was married, had a job, was a student and traveled on weekends with the Insights Gospel Music group. But I now warn my daughters, son-in-laws, and grandchildren to be careful following that example.
It's taken me 50 years to admit I can't do it all. In 2010 I retired from a full time job and Pastor of a church I founded and dearly loved, Family Bible Fellowship.
In 2012, I gave up my home that I dearly loved in Indiana.
In 2013 I dropped out of choir at Brighton. (The choir leader was just like me! She played the piano and directed, did ALL types of music, and the choir had a BAND!!) But I would get so wired after practice (I hear all the parts, the voices, the instruments, and even add parts in my head) it would be hard for me to sleep.
Now I just live with and cook for Mary, scheme to get together with my daughters and their families, and write a little when I can. Seems like I'm busy enough. I also warn my family about carrying the ambitious fewer hours of sleep too far. Their lifestyle trajectory seems very similar to my early years.
God is good!
Silicone ear plugs. sleep mask, fan, and sometimes television just under the level that demands attention. It also helps to have a nap watchdog. My late wife Lynne used to do that. Mary also does an excellent job now.
Just ask me. I'm a professional daytime sleeper.
Also, grasshopper, empty your mind of any compelling problems and questions. My problem is ALL questions are compelling.
Consider yourself blessed if you can get a ten minute power nap. I could then get up, work 3 or 4 more hours, then take another power nap.
I once went several months on an average of 4 hours sleep. Martha Stewart and President Trump both do well on 4 hours sleep. I think Solomon did, also. The great inventor, Thomas Edison, went months at a stretch on 4 hours when on a major project.
But I have switched to the other camp, 9 hours or more. I joined this camp when I decided to forgo my depression medication at the time I decided to drop all health insurance at age 62, while taking an early retirement.
I noted that great athletes often sleep longer than 8 hours to get full recovery. Lebron James is an example.
I am lucky to still be alive, but power naps are indeed powerful. Power naps at stop lights are dangerous and irritating to drivers behind me. Also, I had decided to stay awake to listen to a dear friend, my brother Ted, but my body would disagree and say, "Time for a quick power nap."
At the factory, I could sit on a small reel, and take a power nap while a reel ran out, and wake up in time to to stop the reel.
I could power nap in class at Bible College and when the Professor woke me with a question, I could replay the question in my mind, say it out loud, then answer the question. My late wife Lynne was sitting beside me once. She asked, "How do you do that?! You were snoring!!"
My problem is and always will be I had and have too many ambitions and interests. In Bible College I was married, had a job, was a student and traveled on weekends with the Insights Gospel Music group. But I now warn my daughters, son-in-laws, and grandchildren to be careful following that example.
It's taken me 50 years to admit I can't do it all. In 2010 I retired from a full time job and Pastor of a church I founded and dearly loved, Family Bible Fellowship.
In 2012, I gave up my home that I dearly loved in Indiana.
In 2013 I dropped out of choir at Brighton. (The choir leader was just like me! She played the piano and directed, did ALL types of music, and the choir had a BAND!!) But I would get so wired after practice (I hear all the parts, the voices, the instruments, and even add parts in my head) it would be hard for me to sleep.
Now I just live with and cook for Mary, scheme to get together with my daughters and their families, and write a little when I can. Seems like I'm busy enough. I also warn my family about carrying the ambitious fewer hours of sleep too far. Their lifestyle trajectory seems very similar to my early years.
God is good!
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Knowing, Learning #rmdo #wisdompoet
Everything I needed to know, I learned at the Cross. #rmdo #wisdompoet
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