"Since the pandemic started, I've wanted to stay connected with our community. Through the form of a weekly blog, I share my insights and reflections on various topics."
If you have read enough of my blogs, you probably know that I like to listen to The Daily. This week was no exception. Michael Barbaro interviewed New York Times correspondent, Matt Richtel, about his reporting on the national mental health crisis among adolescents. Although the information he presented is dismaying, I think it is important that we take notice.
I’m always intrigued by what motivates people and the podcast, The Daily, ran a segment this week on workplace surveillance, which I found both interesting and somewhat shocking.
First, I want to apologize for having baseball themed blogs two weeks in a row. My colleague, Charles, sent me an article and video about a Little League World Series regional game in Waco, Texas last week. A team from Texas squared off against a team from Oklahoma. The pitcher, Kaeden Shelton, from Texas accidentally hit the batter from Oklahoma, Zay Jarvis, in the head. Getting beaned in baseball is one of the scarier things to witness for a batter, the pitcher, the parents and basically everyone.
One of my neighbors loves baseball, not so much watching it as playing. Over the course of his life, he played in little league, high school and college. Some time ago, his wife bought him a pitching machine and every so often, he invites a group of friends out to a local field to take batting practice.
Early in the pandemic, I wrote about the War and Peace challenge. There was a book club that was reading 12 pages of the novel each day during the pandemic.
Sometimes it’s hard to be an optimist. When life is coming at you a hundred miles per hour and the news focus is on all that’s wrong in the world, our sympathetic nervous system is pushing us to have heightened awareness of dangers, even those that really don’t impact us.