An Unexpected Tragedy, Bruce is a Hero, Dealing with Loss
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
Good morning, happy Monday, I trust you had an amazing weekend. We did but got some very bad news, and I don’t want to bring you down, but maybe by sharing, you can help us with our tragedy.
We bought our mountain home about a year ago; we’ve made a few investments in the mechanicals, almost all have been replaced, they needed to be updated, so we made the changes. On Friday afternoon, we arrived home to find one of our appliances had died.
In her final moments, Alice, our dishwasher, had vomited a large amount of water over our kitchen floor. We got home, we tried to revive her, but she was too far gone. I only knew Alice for a year, she was kind, did her job daily cleaned our dirty dishes. Alice was something that I’m glad our paths crossed, rest in peace, my friend.
Yesterday, we headed to Home Depot to find our new dishwasher. We looked online to see if there were any local dishwasher rescue places, but there were none, so we headed to Orange Man Bad’s Favorite Box Store.
We entered the store, walked to the appliance section, and were greeted by Bruce, a nice older man who wanted to help us. We looked at our options, and in about 3 minutes, picked our replacement. We don’t dilly; we don’t dally, we like to make quick decisions. It took Bruce about 10 minutes to process our order; it was a wonderful buying experience.
Box Stores get a bad rap, and when they do a great job, I think we need to let them know, I’ll shoot a note to Corporate about our experience, he was a professional. If you live in the Conifer, CO area and loose a valued appliance family member, see Bruce.
We arrived home to meet some friends from Indiana. They were out visiting their daughter, we sat on the deck for an hour or so and shared some stories, we like when our Indy friends get to experience our paradise. Thank you, Duane and Lynn, for stopping by.
Our landscaper also popped by; we did a walkthrough of our upcoming project for our mountain training retreat. We are building something very cool to help others break the code in the insurance industry and looking to launch our first Boom Camp in the Mountains June of 2020.
Our BEAR was back yesterday; we had hung some bird suet in the tree, two broken branches later, some large claw marks on the tree, our suet was safe, but not for lack of trying from Yogi. We will no longer be able to hang suet, as I told my Queen when she walked out and noticed the damage, “this is why we can’t have nice stuff.”
The sun is coming up, the sunset’s here are fantastic. I usually take a photo, imagine that picture-perfect sunrise you get when on vacation and then imagine waking to it every day of your life. It makes for a good start to a great day.
Someone asked on social media what percent of their time folks spent working on the weekend. From a classical definition of work, I would say about 10% of my time is work-related, but I don’t think of what I do as work. I include that function as part of life; I don’t work, I live. I did clean up my email inbox on Saturday, I got slammed Friday, but did a deep clean and am starting the work week fresh.
When tragedy strikes, do not let your emotions get in the way of rational thought. When someone or something passes, understand there is a circle of life, and you are part of that process. We will miss Alice, but know that Alice is in a better place, she did her job, served us well and is now in another dimension. I never found out Alice’s religion, I would guess Christian, but it matters not. She will live on through the stories we share about our time with this giving, caring, being.
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."