Give it the five minutes.
#iamgrateful and #iamthankful to Kieren McCarthy for sharing this one. Made me crack up. Nice and simple. Why? “Oh, I think you know … “
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JUST DESSERTS
Form a super team to win a championship. Get beaten by a super team in search of a championship.
#iamgrateful and #iamthankful for roundball coming full circle. Sheesh.
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DAD JOKES FOR DAYS
Apple and Michael Jordan. Two of the greatest of all time for their generations. Two that I was stubbornly critical of early, regretfully delayed embracer of too late, and as a result, I missed the joy of them in their prime. You know something I am never critical of, though? Dad jokes. They crush. #iamgrateful and #iamthankful for Apple delivering on them like whoa. Even if their new laptops suck, they dropped the headphone jack a year too early (at least), and my iPhone is buggy and has envy of that Samsung edge-to-edge screen. They will be back. Once Tim Cook starts acting like the right Steve (Jobs, not Ballmer.) Until then, I got a good laugh.
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MY JACKIE
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” Sometimes we get caught up in the impact we’re having on the world, we forget the impact the world is having on us. It’s so easy to forget that we’re standing on the shoulders of the investments of time, love, energy that people have made in us.
So today, #iamgrateful and #iamthankful for the fact that I’m the beneficiary of some amazing people who’ve made an amazing (large or small) impact on me. All of y’all. “Only the mistakes are mine.” (MX). Happy Thursday, people.
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DREAMS
A friend reached out on messenger yesterday to share some good news: he’s had a dream of teaching a class at his alma mater, and as of today, he confirmed as an adjunct, for a one year class, on corporate real estate asset management. I’m respecting his anonymity. But it made my day because the guy pivoted his career, focused on doing something bigger than himself, set a new goal (professorship) and pursued it vigorously for four years. #iamgrateful and #iamthankful for stories like this. They are motivating and inspiring. Humbling and reorienting. Good things happening to good people? I can never hear enough of those stories. Ever. #iamgrateful and #iamthankful too because the second he said “Corporate Real Estate Asset Management” I asked him if he’d use a Wu Tang song to kick off every class (C.R.E.A.M. amirite?)
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SAY UNCLE and MUSIC TORTURE
What song would break your spirits and have you cry mercy? I woke up to an NPR report this morning that Manuel Noriega had passed away. I’m old enough to remember him playing a starring role opposite Peter Jennings on ABC News. My family ate dinner together every night, from 6-7pm, with the ABC Local and then National News Broadcasts every evening. I realize more and more these days that I learned so much from even the ambient noise the news provided. I also learned that the most important time — quiet time — was from about 6:21-6:25 when they covered the weather forecast. With no internet around, if we missed that forecast, hell broke loose. Nevertheless, I digress. The biggest thing I think of when I think of Noriega is how we broke him with Rock music. Almost 30 years later, I wonder what songs would we be able to use to have our competitors cry uncle these days?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40090809
(Note: It’s also hard not to think of what Daryl went through on last season’s walking dead, listening to Easy Street over and over again.)
#iamgrateful and #iamthankful for what I hope turns into a discussion around the most torturous songs ever written; knowing full well that my passion for pop of all sorts means that my iTunes playlist is probably torture for the rest of the world.
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NEVER
Anaiya. Jaan. This. If it’s me. If it’s anyone. Remember. When people give you limitations it’s because they want you to have their limits. You don’t. There is no I couldn’t. There are simply choices to, or not to.
#iamgrateful and #iamthankful that for all my own didn’ts, couldn’ts, haven’ts, you’ve got none. Yet. And we’ll work to keep all of those to a minimum, and if not a minimum, then of your own volition at least. (Note: Think of the word “millionaire” as a catch all for wealthy. Financially, spiritually, or otherwise.)
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TYMMPB… | We Chilled
You’re one. WTF.
This is how you turned one. Rough night for you. Rough few days (week?) You woke up crying at 1045. I picked you for the long haul at 1115 after some pick ups and put downs.
But you know? It’s all good. You’ve earned it. You have had such an understated year.
You were born in the shadow of a job switch and your sister going to school.
You were so quiet on our first vacation people wondered where you were.
You moved between nannies while smiling at each and every one.
You waited to crawl until nobody was really watching probably because you didn’t want to be a distraction.
You moved houses before you moved yourself.
You’ve been teething for 8 months and just got a tooth.
The sourest demeanor you ever have is cured by taking you outside so you can wave … to everyone.
You take meds with a smile (like you take everything else.)
You love your sister and let her make you smile like I never knew smiling was possible.
You are a momma’s boy. Keep that, homie. It will get you far. Or at least, protect you forever.
You have your grandfathers in you (and in your name), linked to them forever (and ever.)
You take your time. The more we rush and hustle around you the more you naturally, instinctively, and subtly, humble our pace.
You are everything this whole family needed.
You are what your mom ordered but what I needed. #iamgrateful and #iamthankful for this moment. Some rare QT.
And I get to brag that you turned one in my arms. (Note: I put you back in your crib peacefully a second before posting this. You probably woke up and faked some tears so I could have this moment and story to tell.) HBD, Jaanu!
This, by the way, was how you woke up. Not so bad, huh?
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Suneet Bhatt 