Comments on: Finally Picked My Three Words for 2010

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:23:04 +0000

@HollyTW – By all means do! I’d be honored. Thanks!

@Barbara – Thanks for your affirming words and helping me see how my three are already working!

@Vicki – I’m tickled everyone is enjoying ‘bamboo’. Makes me know it was the right choice!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:15:46 +0000

@Jay – I’m really liking my gratitude journal. It’s perfect for my attention span (takes two minutes), but I get a lot out of that little bit of time focusing on the good things going on. I’m certainly still well aware of all the challenges in our lives, but it’s been giving me a nice lift. And we’re thankful for you too!

@Kathy – ‘acceptance’ is an excellent choice. It was on my short list of choices. It was one of the goals I folded into ‘bamboo’. To respond to things in the ‘bamboo way’, we have to learn not to fight them, and to do that we have to accept that things are in this moment what they are.

That definitely doesn’t mean we don’t do anything to address them in whatever way is appropriate, but getting to where we can say “what is going on right now is part of who we are as a family and members within that family, and I accept that” seems like a real accomplishment.

‘Acceptance’ with respect to others’ differences is key for me this year, too. I really want to try to understand better where people are and try more to see things from their perspective, even if I strongly disagree with them or no matter how foreign their experience is to me. There are some truths that I think are inviolable that I will not yield on, but I think I should at least try to take some sort of time to understand where some people are coming from.

And as a t-shirt I have says, “Statistically speaking, you’re not normal either.”

Look forward to hearing your three words!

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:48:02 +0000

Oh bamboo! What a wonderful symbol you’ve chosen Tim! The essence of what we all should strive for in our lives. Thank you for sharing this image with me (us!)

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:17:14 +0000

Excellent choice of words. You have connected with 4 of us with this post.

By: HollyTW

HollyTW — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:52:43 +0000

Love the three words. These are the best I’ve seen anywhere! Bamboo is great for anyone, but perfect for parents of kids with autism. I may copy them, if that’s ok with you. Congrats!

By: kathy Cook

kathy Cook — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:58:56 +0000

Okay, I absolutely love the Bamboo imagery, if I am Bamboo then I am just waiting for the day that the “pressure & weight” are gone and I ‘snap’ back upright again… that would be wonderful! I am still working on my words, but one of them would most definitely have to be ‘acceptance’… We took Reese to Starbucks tonight, and as I watched him twirl in circles over and over again, shaking his head back and forth while sticking his tongue out and garnering numerous stares… I realized that this problem isn’t going to go away.

I hate my first word.

I’m working on the other two…

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:20:53 +0000

I love bamboo. Just love it. What a wonderful image. Thank you.

And yes, gratitude journals are cheesy and yes, they are powerful.

Your blog is one of the things I am grateful for.