But more important than that has been the relatively new phrase of affirmation - "the finish line is closer than you think." Right now, it's 277 days away. That might seem like a ways off, but it's really not. 277 days ago was November 12, 2007. At that time, I was readying to attend the Cornell v. Harvard hockey game in Cambridge, and also otherwise engaged in the work of our availability. I still remember that time fairly easily. It's not the only reminder of how quickly time can seem to pass. It's already been three months since we returned to Groton; twenty-two days have elapsed since my departure on leave; and already, it's been a full week I've been back at work. Now more than ever, it's been apparent to me that, as Maroon 5 put it, "it won't be soon before long..."
on the subject of sanity...
But more important than that has been the relatively new phrase of affirmation - "the finish line is closer than you think." Right now, it's 277 days away. That might seem like a ways off, but it's really not. 277 days ago was November 12, 2007. At that time, I was readying to attend the Cornell v. Harvard hockey game in Cambridge, and also otherwise engaged in the work of our availability. I still remember that time fairly easily. It's not the only reminder of how quickly time can seem to pass. It's already been three months since we returned to Groton; twenty-two days have elapsed since my departure on leave; and already, it's been a full week I've been back at work. Now more than ever, it's been apparent to me that, as Maroon 5 put it, "it won't be soon before long..."
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The one in the arena...
I spend most of my early weekday evenings Tweeting about Jeopardy!. While it's fun to opine and/or snipe from the sidelines, it was quite another…
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Bonecoming 2017: the second and more contemporaneous part
A few days ago, I posted an entry about my trip back to Cornell last October, and promised to share a Facebook post I wrote shortly after I…
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You are here... and you are home.
May 1996. My high school band took a trip to Toronto. (We could do such things without passports back then.) The outbound leg of that trip…
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