22 Feb 2024
Welcome to the latest issue of the fortnightly GVP Newsletter! “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway Winter finally arrived [again] in Bend! It’s been great getting out to enjoy it, as…
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Infectious Generosity
I recently started reading Infectious Generosity by Chris Anderson (The ‘Head of TED’). I’m about halfway through, and it’s fascinating. Generosity is a big deal to me, and one description in the book caught my attention. Anderson describes how he received a call…
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8 Feb 2024
Welcome to the latest issue of the fortnightly GVP Newsletter! “Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” – Scott Adams Since it had been too long since we were out…
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Let Me Count the Ways
I’m a big fan of use the Notes app on my phone, to capture things before I forget them, since I almost always have my phone nearby. I referenced this in previous post on Family Lexicon and in fact I use…
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Keeping the christmas spirit
A couple of years ago, towards the end of January, with the Christmas lights and decorations long packed away into boxes in the basement, we notice that baby Jesus was still on our mantle. We were about to bundle him…
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Giving and Receiving
Part of the great adventure of writing my first book is the things I’ve learned and the people I’ve met. At least for me, it seems like usually when I admit that I don’t know something (which is quite often),…
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Curiosity
Five-plus years ago when we moved to Bend, I started the process of connecting with new health care professionals. It’s not a fun process, trying to figure out the best people to see for your particular situation in a new…
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Family Lexicon
I was walking along the Alpe Adria Trail in 2022, strolling with a friend on the trip through a forested section in Slovenia, and in the course of our conversation, I mentioned ‘family lexicon’. She asked me what I meant by…
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We All Know How it Ends
I could tell Luke, our then-four-year-old neighbor, was trying to work out something by the intent, scrunched-up look on his face. He and his sister, nine-year-old Delilah, loved to come to our new house in Bend because it had three…
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Tyranny of Schedule
We recently visited relatives Grace and Mason, who live an adventurous life in Big Sky, Montana with their dogs Pippi and Birdie. Pippi is a high energy, small size dog. When Grace and Mason stayed with us in Bend during a…
