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September 02, 2004
Seeing the commonalities verses the differences
Thursday, September 2, 2004 PLOG Entry Four.
Highlights of the day:
Sleeping in, eating a slow breakfast and talking with my family around the breakfast island.
Bike ride around the island and persisting through the gravel and sand for a total of 28 miles. I discovered that the whole northern half of the island is unpaved and very difficult to ride with a racing bike who’s tire’s sink into the road! According to the local paper they will pave all the roads in the year 2008.
Playing mini golf with my wife, her father, my daughter and Molly. Molly doesn’t have opposable thumbs to hold a club, but played anyway by trying take my ball when I hit it!
Playing on the beach with Molly. She really likes the waves and tries to bite the white caps as they are rolling in. She also loves to make water splash and to race us along the beach. When we get tired and stop she’ll start chasing us back the other way.
My wife’s sister and her daughter arriving at the cottage with their dog, Jerry Rice. He’s such a cute little Pomeranian.
Eating dinner together as a family.
Having a quiet peaceful time to write and listen to music while the rest of the family went back to the beach.
Cleaning the bathroom. I did a good job. It was cleaner than when we arrived. Shortly after arriving the toilet backed up and they called a plumber in to fix the problem. But the plumber didn’t do any cleanup. So I did it.
Doing laundry at the local laundry-mat in the town of LaPointe. It reminded me of the old days when we first got married and was fun to talk with my wife while doing it.
My sister-in-law commenting on the Jeff Ray CD I was playing, “I like your music John! Who is this?”
Jerry sitting on the couch with me. He loves to be scratched.
Seeing the commonalities verses the differences
My father-in-law has some political views that are different than mine. It’s not night and day, but there are a few things we don’t agree on. But that’s ok. He is a very generous, kind man who loves his family. There is no difference between his need for love and mine. In this life we tend to focus on the differences and then wonder why life can be so messed up. If I focused on our differences I would not be able to spend a week in the same place with him, but instead I find myself loving this man more. He is the father of my wife, and the grandfather of my children, who loves his family like I do. We could learn to treat our fellow human beings this way also, by focusing on the commonalities instead of the differences.
Posted by carl1236 at September 2, 2004 09:39 PM