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Daily Connector | A Silver Lining | Marlene Suter

I consider myself an optimistic person, so when challenging circumstances come my way, I try to find the 'silver linings'. They're almost always there, and noticing them helps me feel more grounded and hopeful in troubled times.

I'm grateful that I've been spared most of the hardships of the pandemic. Since I'm retired, my life hasn't changed that much, except that all the group activities and social events I enjoyed have been canceled. I miss seeing friends, but I don't miss being busy. A break in the action has been...

Daily Connector | Technical Debt | Tim Armstrong

In software, we have a nasty, hidden source of problems called technical debt. Tech debt is the work left undone at time of delivery; when something is done quickly or cosmetically rather than correctly. In the short term, customers love software accruing tech debt because it means they get their features faster.

Sometimes software seems slow and buggy:

When Juli and I moved into our house in Grandview, the yard appeared neat and well mulched. Strangely, I had a hard...

Daily Connector | Blessing in the Chaos | Submitted by Lavonne vander Zwaag

“Blessing in the Chaos” by Jan Richardson

To all that is chaotic
in you,
let there come silence.
Let there be
a calming
of the clamoring,
a stilling
of the voices that
have laid their claim
on you,
that have made their
home in you,
that go with you
even to the
holy places
but will not
let you rest,
will not let you
hear your life
with wholeness
or feel the grace
that fashioned you.
Let what distracts you
cease.
Let...

Daily Connector | Getting some fresh air | Erin Kelty

I have spent more time outside in the past 3 months than perhaps in the past 15 years. As a kid I played outside all day every day and could go a week without putting on a pair of shoes. I don’t remember any exact moment of transformation, but somehow I became an adult who doesn’t like the feeling of grass on my ankles and prefers air conditioning to the way my house smells with the windows open (I’ve heard this termed “fresh air”).

Will took his first steps in March just a few days before the start of the quarantine, so as our adult world...

Daily Connector | Summer, not normal | Jenny Campagna

There is no normal it seems to me with COVID19 and the next thing coming, whatever it may be. This week it is protests and violent police response as the dearth of national leadership is again spotlighted. In my mental health/grief interview with Mark, I talked of imagining fireflies of disappointment, how they keep flickering in our peripheral visions. So many cancellations for ourselves and our loved ones. So much of feeling separate, out of touch, alone.

I was not nervous prior to talking with Mark but then felt so disconnected and exposed afterward. I thought about Liz...

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