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Are We There Yet?

Are We There Yet?

"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."

Bob Len, Managing Director


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Are We There Yet? vol. 127

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.

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Are We There Yet? vol. 126

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.

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Are We There Yet? vol. 125

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.

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Are We There Yet? vol. 124

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.

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Are We There Yet? vol. 123

Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American rock, folk and country music singer-songwriter who is very popular in the DC area where she started her career in the 80s at local clubs. I don’t listen to a lot of music but happened to hear a song of hers the other day called “What Would You Say to Me.”

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Are We There Yet? vol. 122

Last weekend I was at a lacrosse tournament in Culpeper Virginia. Because of the rain and storms on Saturday, rather than playing at noon on Sunday in Culpeper, our first game Sunday was at 8am more than an hour away in Fredericksburg Virginia.

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