April 2020 - Dave Kimbell

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Roman was nooot looking forward to getting off the plane. March 25th, 2013. Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow. It had been two glorious weeks of mostly sunshine and shirtsleeves in Cyprus. It was a trip he made at least once annually. Sometimes as much as three times in a 12-month period, depending on how business was going. Cyprus was a great place […]

4 years ago

in Questions

The habit of adventurous curiosity

Yeah, I know. Curiosity killed the cat.Doh! That’s why cats are insured for nine lives . . . . .90% of wisdom is cultivating the habit of adventurous curiosity.Deep, persistent, and INSANE curiosity.Kids get this. Even though they can’t articulate it . . . . If you’ve been a parent, you know the frustration of your […]

4 years ago

in Questions

The Quality of Life depends directly on the Quality of the Questions you ask

Those of us that ever bother to ask any questions, generally ask only one at a time, and usually they’re WHAT or HOW questions.How can I stop feeling so lousy about myself, What should I do next, How do I get a better job, yadda, yadda.But, WHY do I feel lousy? WHY should I do something […]

4 years ago

in Rants

Fight the Retirement Virus

Hey Dave! When are you going to retire?Lost track how may times I’ve been asked that.I knew the poser of the question ulterior motives. The real, unstated question was:Hey Dave! When can we have unfettered access to your time? You’re just so darn useful to have around here. But you’re never here exactly when we need ya!And, […]

4 years ago

in Questions

Why?

Oh, Great.”Why?” conjures up memories of raising your toddler. The incessant questions.I tried very hard to answer every one as honestly as I could, without betraying any frustration that I might have been feeling as I was rushing to get out the door to work, or prepare supper, or whatever automatically necessary task was in […]

4 years ago

in Conversations

Talkin’ bout our generations, ep. 3

In this episode, Coronavirus just moves in and takes over. And ironically, I’ve got a cold when this is recorded. (Apologies for the corresponding sound effects.) The All-hell-that-has-broken-loose around the world . . . . has broken loose right in our own backyards. We compare notes between the way people are responding in big-city Ontario vs […]

4 years ago

Forget the Possible. Dominate the art of the Impossible.

What is The Possible?Hoo boy, heavy one. I suppose everybody’s gotta think about something heavy sometime. Me? I think I’ll have another coffee.Start over.What is Possible?Bumped into an old Welsh friend a year ago. We got chatting about the current state of British politics. Politics is the Art of The Possible, he told me. I wonder if […]

4 years ago

in Reflections

Unanswered questions of a returned Canuck

We’d heard that it’s harder to go back to the country you left than it was to leave it in the first place.Diplomats, world travellers, missionaries, all said that when you leave home, and live abroad for as little as two years, the return is more painful than the departure.Now that we’ve done it . […]

4 years ago

in Reflections

The hidden blessing of an introvert’s superpower

Seems I’ve always been a late bloomer.Not intellectually. My grades through school were always decent enough. Never top of the class, but never far from top either. Bright enough that I seemed to exude that brainy, bookish, geeky look that said Uh-oh, another guy who just thinks all the time.But in most other respects, I seem […]

4 years ago

in Questions

What do I want?

What do I want? What a question. How dare you!My two grandfathers were a study in simultaneous contrast and similarity.Both were quiet, introverted men. Happy to sit in the background and watch the world go by. Happy to let their wives do the talking. (My grandmothers needed little urging in this regard.) Risk-averse, play-it-safe, obey-the-rules.Yet […]

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