Morning Journal — text version
For two years I have recorded a brief message each morning for Alexa flash briefings. Yesterday and today there was a technical problem, so I’m posting today’s entry here.
Good morning today is Tuesday, October 26 in Cambridge Massachusetts I can hear the rain falling outside my Lab. I have been Recording daily morning journal flash briefings for Alexa for more than two years now and this is the first time does the platform has failed me for more than a few hours. Yesterday I received an error message when I tried to edit the flash briefing and I spent a lot of time with tech-support troubleshooting it and there’s been a ticket made out. I’ve heard from somebody on the Blueprints team or actually he was on the team but he’s been reassigned but he still answered my plea for help. So something is pretty seriously wrong and they’re working on it and it appears that I can’t upload a flash briefing this morning and maybe not tomorrow either.
What I would like to do is offer to send audio files to you just send me an email at podchronicles@gmail.com and I will email back the file. I can send one for yesterday and this one.
I had the idea as I woke up that I could at least record a morning journal and put it up on Medium as text and I’m dictating it to my iPhone using pages that’s how my father dictates his written work and I’ll put it up probably with very slight editing to make it clear this is an oral a bit of content that I’m putting up on Medium.
I would be talking to you today probably about the interview I did with my father who is 94. It’s on the latest episode of The Kindle Chronicles podcast and I always have great conversations with Dad it makes it even more satisfying to have recorded this one and to put it up on the show because it preserves him in a moment of time and at this moment in time in his life he is full of life he’s frail in his body of course at 94 but he takes good care of himself and he follows doctors orders without any drama and his mind is expanding I guess is how I would see it.
He is working on a book that he talks about on the podcast he’s learning the art of conversation at the retirement community that he lives in. And he’s connecting with his family five grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren and my sister at me in ways that I might not have predicted he had a very focused career in business retiring as a CEO, and my mother was the one that was in charge of connecting with people. She’s been gone two years now and my father has reached out to make new friends and he does it mindfully with a lot of effectiveness he searches out people that have similar interests and he’s hospitable he’s friendly he’s concerned about everyone getting a chance to be in a conversation. And if I lived where he doesI would hope to be someone invited to his table it in the dining room. And that’s a remarkable pleasure to see happening.
Here at the house we are settling in with our niece Liz who has moved here from Montana with Lyra her dog and Richard Parker her cat and so our household has doubled with Sophie our dog and Darlene and me and it’s great we’re finding out things about Liz. Who knew she was an amazing cook? And we’ve had some great meals that she’s enjoyed cooking in the kitchen and she’s going to be pursuing her nursing and medical career here in the Boston area
If I was shooting for five minutes this would be done now so I will finish and put it up on Medium and I hope to be talking to you by Alexa flash briefing soon.
