For those of us who are spinning too many plates or burning too many candles at all ends or giving up altogether and devoting their lives to working Sudoku puzzles\u2026and the hell with it\u2026<\/p>\n
Delegate!<\/strong><\/p>\n It takes a village.\u00a0 Why not call on people for help, especially when it’s a win-win for everyone.\u00a0 Why didn’t I learn this lesson in kindergarten?<\/p>\n So one baby step at a time I am stepping into the world of mutual blessing. Starting with my website.\u00a0 Yes I do it myself and of course enjoy the process, spending hours tweaking the snappy text, piling in pictures and links (that actually\u00a0link), airbrushing the whole thing in hot pink and green.<\/p>\n But the truth is I don’t know squat about web design, actually any design.\u00a0 And I know even less “computer language.”\u00a0 Years ago I got lucky and began this website detour in my life using a freebie program called Netscape with it’s basic instructions that are written for first graders.\u00a0 Then one day, in the recent past, Netscape disappeared and took my website with it.\u00a0 Well not quite.\u00a0 My humble billboard in the sky became frozen in space.\u00a0 I couldn’t make any changes to it, and as we know, life is all about change.\u00a0 Whether we like it or not.<\/p>\n I remember that “frozen website day.”\u00a0 While I was hiding in the bedroom, curled up in the fetal position, seeing my life pass before me, my husband found a Netscape chat room online and described the situation, including my current mental condition, to the international community.\u00a0 Not long after, a nice man in Germany emailed back suggesting we download some program call KompoZer.\u00a0 It’s free, compatible with Netscape and best of all, works!\u00a0 My husband restores my website.\u00a0 And my life.<\/p>\n But once I can feel my toes again, I realize the time has come for some serious “letting go.”\u00a0 Enter Miss\u00a0Amy Pace<\/a>, an uproariously talented designer who\u00a0created\u00a0my husband’s<\/a>\u00a0very cool website and the artwork for his latest CD.\u00a0 Plus, she’s a computer genius.\u00a0 So many gifts wrapped up into one lovely woman.<\/p>\n She is making “delegating” easy.\u00a0 And a pleasure.\u00a0 So, let the artist “art” and let the ukulele player “uke.”<\/p>\n Right now Amy and I are in constant email communication (she lives in Wisconsin) as she builds a new website for me.\u00a0 There will be videos (finally, because I never learned how to do that myself) and a new home for my blog where you can post your responses and we can share the tears and cheers together.\u00a0 I’ll have a new page for The CC Strummers, my ukulele group, and all things ukulele.\u00a0 Amy and I have a long ways to go, so for now my home-sewn website is alive and well and a click away.\u00a0 I’ll keep you updated about the “birthing process.”\u00a0 Oh by the way, the new website will be all hot pink and green.\u00a0 Just because\u2026<\/p>\n Delegating #2<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking of The CC Strummers\u2026<\/p>\n Our little group is growing like beautiful bougainvillea in the California sun and is blossoming into an ohana, a family.\u00a0 I am ready to add one more task to my “to do” list by creating a contact list so our\u00a0ukulele family members\u00a0can email or phone each other directly.\u00a0 Then I suddenly remember my new mantra:\u00a0 Delegate.<\/p>\n Enter Ray, a loveable bear of man, generous and one fabulous musician too.\u00a0 Ray used to work for the government.\u00a0 Our government.\u00a0\u00a0 In aerospace.\u00a0 You know, rockets, satellites and all that stuff.\u00a0 During those space-race days, he was granted the highest security clearance because apparently Ray is a man who can keep a secret.\u00a0 So The CC Strummers can trust him with our email addresses, by golly.\u00a0 He now appears in class with color-coded forms for us to fill out.\u00a0 This job is in very good hands indeed.<\/p>\n Delegating #3<\/strong><\/p>\n Then there is my mother, who is descending deeper and deeper into her own world of dementia with its wild array of prickly behaviors.\u00a0 Day by day, she is losing “her story.”\u00a0Our\u00a0story.\u00a0 Thankfully, her care is being delegated.\u00a0 But\u2026<\/p>\n Today I drop by her home with my banjo ukulele and together we sing songs from the good old days.\u00a0 Everything, even this, goes down a little easier with music.<\/p>\n I’ve heard it said that we pay attention to what we value and we value what we pay attention to.\u00a0 It’s an interesting exercise to really look at that, unflinchingly.\u00a0 So I’m looking and listening and making every effort to embrace each moment as it comes.\u00a0 And delegate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For those of us who are spinning too many plates or burning too many candles at all ends or giving up altogether and devoting their lives to working Sudoku puzzles\u2026and the hell with it\u2026 Delegate! 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