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>Volcano – The Napkin Dad's Encyclopedia of Characters and Stuff

>Don’t forget, you have a chance to be my first ‘guest blogger’ this coming Friday! Go to last friday’s napkin and think of a good quote to put in the blank thought bubble you will find there. Email me the quote and whatever commentary you may have and if I choose your entry I will write your quote in the bubble and publish your commentary with it. Deadline is Thursday noon.

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Today we have a new addition to The Napkin Dad Encyclopedia, Introducing Volcano!

Volcano is dangerous and beautiful. Sometimes it is a she, sometimes a he. Volcano represents what can’t be held in any longer. What is inside you that is going to find it’s way out, no matter what. it is down the road, or maybe in your bed. It erupts continually most of your life, or is dormant until many years has passed. Volcano is never truly extinct, it is always capable of rumbling.

When you see Volcano on a napkin you are perhaps seeing what might happen if a direction doesn’t change. You might be witnessing a truth coming out, or a wrong that about to be finally righted.

Volcano is often misunderstood. It wants to be helpful but it only know how to spew and erupt. It would like to find smaller fissures to enable itself to come out more gracefully. But in the end, all it knows is that it has to come out, one way or another.

>Whatever Is Good To Know

>Proverbs continued…

And that is why, whether it’s about ratios or relationships, math or mates, your children are not likely to learn it just because you told it to them. As a matter of fact, it’s likely you DID tell it to them and they didn’t even hear you.

One must learn it, experience it, suffer the pain of pursuing it, themselves. That is why parent’s are doing their children no favors when they don’t allow them to experience pain, uncertainty, decision-making and failure on their own.

They must climb the cliffs, brave the seas and climb the volcano on their own, in their own pursuit of what is good to know.

Drawing by Marty Coleman of
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Quote is a Greek Proverb

>Like All Great Travellers

>Day 2 of decompression from my vacation. I am still thinking
about travel and so am going to continue this week (maybe) in drawing
about it.

During our vacations it is a tradition that about half way in we will turn
to each other and ask ‘what is your favorite part, so far?’. We will tell what
event was the best in our minds, and also what part was the least fun or
interesting. This year the whale watching was pretty much the #1 favorite
of the first half.

What is funny is that the first 2 1/2 hours of the whale watching trip was easily
the worst time of the trip up to that point. It was cold, it was very foggy (no
horizon in sight) and it was boring. The people around me were purple lipped
from the cold, red faced from the wind, eyes watering from the wind, and bored.

It wasn’t until we had pretty much given up hope and realized we were have to
return to the Provincetown without seeing a whale that 2 whales appeared. Then
the mood changed. Then the sun broke through just a bit. Then the whales came close.
Then the whales breached (jumped) out of the water. Sometimes completely. Then
they did it again, very close to the boat. They put on a show like the captain and the
naturalist and the crew hadn’t even ever seen. The lady next to us had been on
20 whale watching tours and had never seen one jump, much less the dozen or so we
saw. She was wooping it up like she was at a tight baseball game in the 9th inning!
The whale watching fiasco of a mere 45 minutes earlier was just a great lead in to the
big climactic story of the breaching whales in the glorious setting sun.

What we remember is greater than what we saw. It is the story, the arch of the event,
the people, the feeling, the mood and the mood swings, that we add into the event to
make it what it is in our mind. I love that about travel.

quote by Benjamin Disraeli – 1804 – 1881, British Prime Minister (twice) under Queen Victoria

>The Privilege to Work

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Work is always about the external and the internal. Externally what is it
that makes you love, hate or be indifferent about your work? Internally
how does your attitude, education, mindset, beliefs, assumptions, expectations,
and behavior make you love, hate or be indifferent about your work?

What do you have control over out of all those external and internal elements?

quote by David O. McKay

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It’s Geographic Thursday again!

Here are all the cities ending in A that came to visit this past week:

Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA – 10 miles / 16 km
Wichita, Kansas, USA – 190 miles / 305 km
La Vista, Nebraska, USA – 352 miles / 567 km
Temecula, California, USA – 1,209 miles / 1,947 km
Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar – 7,691 miles / 12,377 km
Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia – 9,508 miles / 15,299 km
Brazilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil – 4,770 miles / 7,676 km
Aurora, Colorado, USA – 539 miles / 838 km
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada – 1,079 miles / 1,737 km
Omaha, Nebraska, USA – 352 miles / 567 km
Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain – 4,816 miles / 7,750 km

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