Remembrance

As I turned the calendar to September I started thinking about this day...

Where were you on September 11, 2001?

Do you remember what you were doing when you heard the news?

How did your life change on that day...

Very rarely in our lives can you point to one specific moment and be able to identify a time when things will never be the same...

For my generation this was that day...

Whether you agree or not, things in our world changed forever that day...

So many of the images of that day were captured so purely by a video artist in New York who took the song for the band Live called Overcome. The band was nice enough to give it songs use after the video went viral.

It took a little digging but this is an amazing video that brings a flood of emotions back even now.

Live Overcome 9/11 Tribute

For those of us that remember that day....

We Will Never Forget....

Perspective...

I was reflecting in a earlier post about the challenges I've faced so far this year. Its been an interesting couple of weeks since that post...

I'm done working for a company that I've given almost 10 years too and at the end of the day I look back and think, did I make a difference?

To be completely honest when I walked out that door for the last time I would have thought I would have a wide range of emotions and yet I simply felt one...

Relief

To anyone that has worked at this company, we've seen them struggle for some time. We've all attempted to do our part and help correct the issues, unfortunately the culture has morphed from a place of accountability to a place of blame...

In the past several years I've seen some of the brightest and most loyal people I've ever met either leave by choice or forced out...This of course is Corporate America and this happens all the time, but what was probably the most disturbing was not that the decsion was made, whether right or wrong, but simply how it was handled.

At the end of the day this was probably what hurt the most. The company always talked about being an,"Employer of Choice". Well if you want to be an," Employer of Choice" then no matter what the business decision, you should treat people accordingly and treat them with respect and diginity, yet all to many times over the past several years I have seent his not to be the case.

A true test of a company comes not from what they do in good times, but from how they react in the bad times and in my humble opinion the company has failed.

This of course is Corporate America and at the end of the day it doesn't really matter....

It's quite sad, but very true....

...but with this reflect.

To all those that have been my friend, Thank you.

To all those that have supported me, Thank you.

To all those that have argued, disagreed, and vehemently challenged me, Thank you.

10 years ago I was an eager kids running a 100 miles a minute running anyway I was pointed...

Now...I have direction

Now...I have purpose

Now...I know who I am

Now...I know who I'm not

Watch Out World, Here I come...

Life...

Its funny how life goes...

Talking to a friend the other day he made mention of coming across my blog and said I had posted anything in a while....

I was thinking...Hell its probably been two years...

Life been busy and its been a rough year...

• Family drama
• Child with a broken ankle
• Child with a blown appendix
  
• Wife diagnosed with a major life impacting disease
  
• The educational system (Do any of these people live in the real world?)
• The love of people who play dumb
• Great career move turned swan dive
• More family drama

What doesn't kill you is supposed to make you stronger, but this is getting a little extreme...

Its funny...Stress is something I typically thrive on...

It typically drives me to ride more...

But not this year...

I haven't nearly put the miles on the bike I usually do...

So I've set a goal...

A solo ride - in fact a 12 hour solo ride...

The hope...Chaos Controlled or better yet Chaos Managed

So here's to Chaos and the dance that goes with it....