I have confided to friends that my dream job is to be a teacher or writer or both. I spend an inordinate amount of time writing and thinking about writing. If I did not have to earn a living, the starving artist inside of me would call being an author my full time job. Of course, with no life experiences other than my imagination there would not be much to write about. So I choose mostly to write about things that I know from life, work and relationships. I am motivated by some unseen force to do this and would capture these thoughts for myself even if nobody else ever read them. I would be lying if I said that readership doesn’t matter and it is remarkable to me that my blog Make HR Happen by Tom Bolt has a steadily rising readership even though that expansion is a by-product and not the target. January 2013 was the best month for readership since I reincarnated my blog two years ago. Since nobody will read this on a Sunday this self-serving promotion is “preaching to the choir†and will only be seen by a handful of regulars. Instead of my usual selection of articles from the archives for Sunday reading I will call attention to the first in the current series and a couple of articles which were adapted from previous blogging attempts and edited for this blog.
Sunrise of a Blog – To me the sunrise symbolizes a new beginning. The header to my blog is a photograph I snapped of the sunrise over the Pacific Ocean from a hotel room in Cronulla, NSW Australia. It was quite inspiring to watch each morning as the sun gave birth to a new day by burning off the lazy haze left over from the night before.
Actually the term “beginning†means only a moment in time. What happens next may not follow the planned course or have the expected outcome. The gift of another sunrise each day gives us encouragement, optimism and hope. Benjamin Franklin used these sentiments when he referenced the sunrise design carved into the chair used by George Washington in the 1779 Federal Convention in Philadelphia, commenting that it was a rising, not a setting sun. – more –
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Ghosts In The House –  The fear of ghosts can definitely change behavior. For example, a few years ago we were awakened at 2:00 AM from the deepest slumber to the sound of a TV blaring in another part of the house. I first suspected our resident ghost that steals socks, hides spoons and sometimes makes those little creaky noises in the middle of the night. On closer inspection there appeared to be a more rational explanation. – more -Â
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Are You Missing Out On Your Rainbows? – The following is from an email that I wrote to my daughter while she was in college. She and I shared little nuggets of our writing from time to time. I’m not sure who started this mini-tradition and I am also not quite sure who was encouraging whom to do creative writing. It seemed to work for both of us. Today, she and I are closer than ever even though she lives 1013.8 miles from Daddy (but who’s counting anyway). – more –