Category Archives: perfect

Nov 10 1 comments
Happiness, memory, Owens Lee Pomeroy, past, perfect

>Nostalgia is Like A Grammar Lesson

>I know we don’t all have great memories of the past. But here it seems to be talking about the good memories we have and how they came to be good memories. How did we remember them in the way we did. It might have been a day at the beach with your lover, or a great time at the amusement park with your child or parent. You look back and forget the heat of that day but remember the fun. You might forget the hassle of finding parking but remember the beautiful fresh salt air breeze of the beach.

Can you see the ‘perfect’ in the ‘present’? Can you focus on that. Not the crowded elevator trip, but the great smile of the receptionist. Not the wait to get your lunch, but the restful moment of relaxation that comes after you sit down.

It is a choice about what you pay attention to and what you focus on.

Drawing by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily blog.

Quote by Owens Lee Pomeroy


May 10 0 comments
perfect, Robert Neville

>Living with a Saint

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This is one of the original napkins I put in my daughters’ lunches. You can see
the difference in drawing style and detail, but the ideas are still in the same vein.

I remember my college roommate and I went on a skiing trip with our church
group and one of the young leaders was this saint of a guy. He was happy,
courteous, positive, intellectual, kind, funny, helpful, yada yada yada. We
liked him quite a bit. By the end of the trip we made sure we didn’t sit anywhere
near him on the way home though since we felt like we were in the presence of
a cartoon saint with nothing we could relate to.

Portrayals of Jesus that way always made me feel far away not at all interested
in knowing more. Portrayals that brought out his humanity and his every day normalcy,
while still being a loving and cool guy made me want to find out more and listen
to what people said he had taught.

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Come to the opening reception on May 14th, 6-8p

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Feb 04 0 comments
Eugene Delacroix, frustration, perfect

Artists Who Seek Perfection

 

Artists Who Seek

So, it’s another dichotomy. Seeking perfection all the time assures you that you won’t find it. So if you truly are a thinking perfectionist your strategy would have to be to not seek it all the time, but be aware of it when it happens.

I have found perfectionism in young people has to do with perceived external rules and pressures while that same phenom in older people has an internal rule or standard that guides them. While I think their is some sort of progress there, I also think that either way, the perfectionist is so constantly living with disappointment and frustration that no moment of perfection would be able to compensate anyway.


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