Tag: exhaustion
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The Exhaustion Trap
We’re at our second conference in a week, this one in Berlin, Germany. We left Milwaukee at 6 am, spent 24 hours between airports and in the air, and arrived in Berlin at 8 am the next day in time for a 9:00 meeting. I don’t sleep well on planes. I read, watched movies, tried…
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The Plate Is More Than Full
photo courtesy of Cris Saur on Unsplash You know it’s bad when you sit for longer than five minutes and find yourself drifting to sleep. Sitting in an uncomfortable chair. With noise and chaos bubbling around you. Rather than dealing with all that’s been happening in my life in a measured, deliberate way, acknowledging I…
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The Burden Of The Body
Photo courtesy of Ramiro Pianarosa on Unsplash My mind has been lost in a haze of the must-dos and the should-have-finished. Thanksgiving is in a week, and I’m not ready for it or any holiday mentality. Not an atypical response to intense times; we’re in the midst of a challenging month. We’ve lost two dear…
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The Love Of A Father
Exhaustion comes from an overwhelming sense of newness and change, those out-of-control adjustments that can take a lot out of us. Little Kollyns is just a week old, and she’s completely got her days and nights mixed up, sleeping all day, remaining awake all night. Midnight is the beginning of her day, and she really…
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Help From Unexpected Places
One of the joys of having three of our kids living in the same city as us is the opportunity to spend time with the grands when the occasions arise. Because we moved around quite a bit when our kids were little and never lived close to grandparents, my kids didn’t grow up with those…
Tip of My Iceberg 