What’s On Your Mind?
A special message for our friends and visitors regarding a ‘PIVOT’ in my life.
As a former California Highway Patrol Motorcycle Officer, Retired , I wore many ‘hats’ during my career. Two of my favorite positions was that of; ‘Occupational Safety Supervisor’ and the other Public Affairs Officer. In the latter position, from time to time, I would receive the sad news of the passing of a friend, colleague or someone in the extended family, the number of which seems to grow increasingly with the passing of each year.
This has always weighed on my mind. Finally, an opportunity presented itself which enables me to shine some light on our memorable past.
Is it me or does time and distance seems to dim the memories and associated feelings over time. For me, time and distance also accentuates losing track and nearly forgetting the extended family, friends and stories of our past.
Enter 2024 and 2025. Myself and several friends have been pouring over ol’ times and stories hours at a time. We all said the say thing over and over again at different times within the same and subsequent gatherings. We want to read, watch and comment on the ‘good o’l days’ when we had sometime that was convenient with each other. We invested in some ‘sweat equity.’ Time, sweat and some tears into this project in hopes to make it as seamless and forgiving as possible for each of us be apart an integral pat of a community of our choosing without with out relying on any one ‘Social Media’ platforms. This was one of the biggest challenges, not using current ubiquitous ‘Social Media’ platforms so popular with most of us.
My thought process for building a ‘Community’ is:
- Relevance
- Purposeful
- Limited Access
- Code of Conduct
- Improvement
Trust, Honesty and Integrity if you hold these personal character traits dear, then your are half way there!
Note* Here is a link to provide clarity and see the relevance and purpose for my friends. This where I am learning more about Living Life Purposely.
fyi.
- I am not an Affiliate for this woman.
- So I get (nada, zip, bump-kiss, zero)
- The link is to a Self-Care I enjoy
It just makes me feel good and has 63 views
Spring forward to 2025 My perception is still basically the same post career and raising our family. However, I have had to come to terms with dealing with the abrupt end of a fulfilling, rewarding and challenging career.
I would always prefer to interact through direct face to face interpersonal communication. But as time marches-on we get older and technology grows exponentially leaving so many of us behind is the dust so to speak.
You know its all Social media this, App that! And don’t get me started on A.I., Artificial Intelligence. A.I. just seems to outpace us and without us standing in front of each other how do you know for sure it’s me or its you? What’s the situation where you live? How are people getting on with all the ‘Noise’ in the Communication Channel?
Like fresh footprints on a a sandy beach, one wave or ‘rush-up’ with the incoming high. The foot prints keep getting erased. Can you remember those substantive conversations you once had with a beat partner, colleague, parent, older sibling, guardian or elder? Maybe it was a teacher you respected.
Well that’s the premise for ‘Self-Care’ in a ‘nutshell’! Strive to keep ‘fighting the good fight.’
Through interaction and communication we can cultivate and strengthen deeper ties, or roots with each other to keep our communities healthy.
Respectfully,
Tim O’Toole aka ‘ Turner’
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