Approximately 1% of the “solid” food made it into his tummy. Gotta start somewhere.
Month: September 2013
Hillshire Brands Plant Tour
Uncle Doug took us on a tour of his workplace and then served us some hot dogs. It was a fun afternoon.
Generations of Family Businesses
Dad and I ran the ad you see below in the September 2013 issue of Traverse Magazine and the September/October issue of BayLife North. Click on the link in that first sentence to see the ad in the online version of BayLife North.
Also, that same issue of BayLife North has a “Family Footsteps” section, which features local multi-generational family businesses. One of those is the Reynolds-Jonkhoff Funeral Home where Lindsey is a sixth generation funeral director. Click this link to see the Jonkhoff Family feature page, which includes me and even Harvey!
It remains to be see whether Harvey will grow up to be a seventh generation funeral director, third generation attorney, first generation professional golfer, or any of a million other possibilities!
To Invent Your Own Life’s Meaning
Bill Watterson, the author of the comic, Calvin and Hobbes, gave a commencement address at Kenyon College in 1990. It was recently highlighted by Zach Klein in comic form. Here is the same excerpt, as text:
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.
You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.