Touching Base

The video clip's of the top 10 homeruns of the past week... it leaves out A-Rod's two early in the week and Bond's big one that barely cleared the wall... but it's all good. Hey, it's the internet, maybe MLB posted the wrong week. Either way, the point still fits, can't win the game, score the run, make the highlight clip until we touch base... every base.

It's a lesson most of my generation- probably not reading, or having a clue what a blog is -learned on the playground with our classmates and a kickball. Today's kids and today's leaders learned it at t-ball. I'll go with the old painted base on asphalt lessons of the school yard. Rarely a tougher bunch of critics then an opposing team of second graders. So many of the first rules of life began with making sure we touched base.

Those early lessons generalize out through the rest of our social economy: to make and keep friends, family, business contacts- touching base is still king. Confession: understanding, and believing this simple principle- I still fail, sometimes in fantastic fashion, while heading towards home... and I really want to touch every base and win at the end of the day. I've decided to change- and change now.

One of the things I love about blogging is the feeling I get that I'm at least making an effort to touch base- but it's not the same as picking up the phone and making a call to one person I care about, or someone I'd like to know better, as opposed to posting my ramblings whenever I feel like it. When I work my way through a list of people I'd like to reach out to with a call, a note card or an email- just because I care -I feel like those guys in the highlight video at the end of a walk off home run. There's no opposing pitcher, no army of disciplines to keep myself fit and ready to step up to the plate, just a willingness to break the barrier that keeps us from experiencing richer, deeper relationships... the kind that help us win day in and day out at the business of living.

hey, after you read this, email me, give me a call- we'll chat, touch base and take one step closer to making it home... together.

blessings,

Eric