{"id":419,"date":"2007-08-23T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/08\/23\/wednesday-night-good-intentions\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T01:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T05:42:00","slug":"wednesday-night-good-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/08\/23\/wednesday-night-good-intentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; Good intentions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pBlogBody_302403855\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Not much to report today..<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>I&#8217;ve received several notes and calls based on the low <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>tone of my last few posts.<span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>It was really touching that so many folks cared enough to check in on me\/us.<span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>It&#8217;s funny when that kind of thing happens. I know it sounds weird .. but I&#8217;m always surprised when someone reacts to what I write here.. (OK.. everyone walk out side now and quack like a duck !)<span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>At some level I know that there are folks out there reading this<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>but at the same time I don&#8217;t really want to think about what people will make of what I put here. If I thought about it much, I might get too freaked out to write at all . .<span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>I actually got a little self conscious today that I might be bringing people down too much\u2026I know Ive said this before.. <span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>but I suppose folks can stop reading whenever they like.. I just can&#8217;t stop writing.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p>My intention is to record as much of my thinking as I can get down every day for.. for what ?<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Posterity ?<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>my own future reference.. I don&#8217;t know . I spend a good deal of time thinking about my intentions. What do I want from he balance of my life now that Sam has passed ?<span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>I was talking to one of the interns at work about this <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>today.. I don&#8217;t think I ever really gave much thought to my own intentions.. In fact, I don&#8217;t think many people do.. I&#8217;ve always had goals.. but not so much day to day <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>purposeful intentions.. Here are my current intentions\u2026 in rough priority order<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">Have a      loving and supportive relationship with my kids<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">Have a      loving and supportive relationship with Diane<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">Find      ways to honor Sam&#8217;s memory and spirit<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">Have a      loving and supportive relationship with my parents and extended family<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">Enjoy robust      good health<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">Have      meaningful work that is both fun and helps others<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">Have      some measure of peace and ease in my life\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">What are yours ? <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Love you all.. love you Sam<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">-me<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ps. The folks at <st1:place><st1:placename>Carnegie<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename>Mellon<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype>University<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> wrote a really nice article about<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>my educations outreach stuff,,, It&#8217;s on the front of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/index.shtml\" target=\"_self\">webpage<\/a> today.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Later, the link will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/homepage\/collaboration\/2007\/summer\/jolts-n-volts.shtml\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. I really ike this one because it points folks to the CMU outreach activities<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>where they can get personally involved<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/aug2207\/Aug22001.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to report today..&nbsp; I&#8217;ve received several notes and calls based on the low &nbsp;tone of my last few posts.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was really touching that so many folks cared enough to check in on me\/us.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#8217;s funny when that kind of thing happens. I know it sounds weird .. but I&#8217;m always surprised when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/08\/23\/wednesday-night-good-intentions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night &#8211; Good intentions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}