Wade in The Shade Cont. thing. He called today (Sunday) and told me that he’s leaving North Carolina in the morning(Monday) and will be here on Wednesday to start hauling stuff to my warehouse. I have to find a place to put 1600 cubic feet of stuff in my place. I worked all day moving and consolidating and throwing away my junk
in order to have room for his junk. It’s really amazing just how much stuff a guy can accumulate over the years.....Wyatt has a full truck bed of junk that we are throwing away and all of that junk has been in my shop for probably about 40 years. Why haven’t I thrown that stuff away long before I had to make room
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for somebody else’s “stuff”. We were able to make some amazing progress and finished some shelving that has needed finishing for several years now and I think that I have a place for his stuff. I actually found all kinds of things that I didn’t know where they were located(I knew that I had them...I just couldn’t find
Sunday observations from Christy
The lost art of negotiation. What has happened? It doesn’t matter if the topic is race relations, politics, life styles, vehicle types, or what kind of jeans we wear. The ability to discuss things, in a civilized manner, with each side proposing their idea and supporting stories, and the other side listening is GONE. We have no problem proposing our ideas, our thoughts, our beliefs....but when it comes to listening to the other side, it is gone. The sad part of that is, throughout all discussions, if you listen to the other side you can typically gain an insight you did not know before. It may be someone’s feelings, it may be their ire, their
irritation, their passion, but if you simply LISTEN, if nothing else, you can learn what makes them feel the way they do. What makes them tick, so to say. The current state of things in our country is heartbreaking. For so many reasons. You have people who feel unheard, who feel wronged, who feel as though no one hears them unless they scream a little louder. If that doesn’t work, lets try fighting, blasting people on social media, and just being downright disrespectful. Then the other side is more disrespectful. Then it goes like a bad game of tennis, rarely making it over the net and legal, but being passed back and forth to the other player. The loser?
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The American public. I will never profess to know all about anything. I am learning day by day. Typically I learn more from my personal failures and faults ,because when I have a total meltdown, it’s most frequently due to being unheard....... or what I perceive is unheard. Growing up, I watched as my mom and her mom had quite the contentious relationship. Families have issues, ours was no different, but by and far when Mom would lose her ever loving mind and explode... it was to be heard. Then of course everyone was like WOW that was an explosion. No one tried to understand what CAUSED the explosion. To get to the root of
them) until today and I ‘ve placed them on the aforementioned shelves and will probably have no clue whenever I start looking for them in a couple of years when I need them, but by golly I have them on a shelf. I cleaned up so much stuff that I can actually drive the lawnmower inside and park it in its place
without having to move something else and I’m so sore tonight that I may not be able to move in the morning, but man it feels good to accomplish something. I guess that I’m at a point in my life that I need to start consolidating and reducing my holdings. If I haven’t needed it in 40 years, I probably won’t need it
in the next 40, so it’s time to go. This one day of manual labor has just about killed me, so I hope that I can find the strength to write a column next week after two or three or four days of moving his stuff, because you know he will talk me into helping him. Till next time, I’m...........Wade in the Shade
it. Listening would have helped........a LOT. You can not just point out someone’s faults, you must find out why they do what they do, or you will never progress. Our country is the same. But when we listen, we must ask ourselves do we listen to hear or to appease. Because when you listen to actually hear someone, you begin to understand what makes them so passionate. When you listen in appeasement, it may seem polite but I promise you 99.9% of the time the other person knows you are only passifying them. That you will do nothing to comfort them. That you want your way, only. Sometimes, we must do some painful self
evaluations, to see what we can do to help the person who is hurting. Is it possible we have done something....... wrong? EEEEK! Who likes to admit that??? Like it or not, we are not always right every single time. Someone else has a different view that makes sense, but to see that, it may mean we have missed the mark with something we felt strongly on. To say, “I realize at one time I believed this, but now I see I was wrong” takes a hell of a human being’s strength, and is one we don’t see nearly often enough. We must resume the act of listening to hear.......not to appease. In the same sense, when someone has the courage to say they were wrong, we
have to restrain the I told you so, You were an idiot, Wow you actually came to your senses, But you always said this, or any other snippy negative comments. People can change. I guarantee they won’t if they are faced with ridicule, and embarrassment. We have reached a point that people are scared and embarrassed to change their view points. We are all learning and growing every day. Show tolerance to the person trying, for with any luck you will be that person one day. Happy Sunday peeps.......... Negotiate. Listen. Speak kindly. Forgive. Allow people to grow. Listen. and one more time, LISTEN
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So, I have this friend.....well, he’s really like a brother and he called me the other day and started the conversation with “I want you to think about something”. I know that there are several of you
that are still digesting the first part of the first sentence....I have a friend, but he has had my back for about 40 years now and we have been through thick and thin. He has traveled the world and there have
been times when I wouldn’t get to talk to him for months or even maybe a year because he was in some foreign country and time zones and communications were a problem, but whenever we would get
E E R F the chance to talk it was just like picking up a conversation that we didn’t get to finish yesterday. We met in college in Huntsville and have been like brothers ever since. He has been to Africa, Italy, most of Europe and a lot of the Middle East and the Texas Rice Festival in Winnie. I made the mistake of bringing him to the Rice Festival one weekend while
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Crockett, Texas for about 35 years and his wife has decided that the time has come for him to clean out the storage shed and quit paying the fee. Oh yea, I forgot to tell you guys that he is currently living in North Carolina. So, what he wanted me to think about was him coming to Texas and cleaning out the storage building, but instead of (Cont. on pg 3)
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