Everything you need, some of what you want

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020

Everything you need, some of what you want

This was how a recent contestant on The Voice described her childhood. She said it with a smile and followed a profile of her journey to The Voice stage. It described being raised by a single mom in a situation that was poor in material goods but rich in emotional ones. Second hand stores but first-rate parenting.

This phrase that summarized her experience, “She gave us everything we needed and some of what we wanted,” resonated with me on several levels.…

You’ve got some nerve

Several years ago, I pinched a nerve in my neck. Unbeknown to be, this was cutting off signals that extended down through my left arm. When I finally went to see my doctor, we discovered that I had lost 50% of muscle strength in my left triceps.

My muscle had atrophied and there was some question as to whether that strength would ever be recovered.…