EFFICIENT DEXTERITY FOR DIFFICULT TIMES

Efficient dexterity means different things to different people?

Like everything you try for the first time, or the millionth time, always remember one thing:

Everyone is different and what matters to you and I doesn’t matter for everyone else.

If you’re reading this I’m bunching you with my other readers.

“BUNCH.”

Now we’re all gathered together, right?

When do we hope others have more efficient dexterity than we do?

When you take your car in for service you hope they’re better at fixing and replaces things than you.

Three hours later you learn the work was slowed when one of the guys goes home for medical reasons.

But he didn’t tell anyone and your car gets side-tracked.

Once it’s all finished the service rep makes it all better by giving you an extra bag of chocolate.

This happened to me and I was good with it because I lost track of time.

I lost track reading the latest issue of The New Yorker.

 

Am I A New Yorker Kind Of Guy? Are You?

Yes, we are.

Even if that sounds too weird to believe, hear me out.

The best New Yorkers are the people who stay close to home, who don’t leave their home borough unless they’re forced to.

Like going to work.

Otherwise they live a full life in a three block section that has everything they’d ever need.

It’s all near their front door: food, clothing, shelter, contentment, love.

Why would they leave all of that?

 

 

The worst kind of New Yorkers are those who leave and take their block with them and complain about how different everything is.

For them life is disappointing when they learn the rest of the world is different than where they came from.

Then they call the rest of us “provincial” when we don’t agree.

The butt-hurtness increases when you explain to them they are not in New York.

 

My favorite New Yorkers:

Calvin Klein

Ralph Lauren

Barbra Streisand

 

Why? Because they were all born in New York City.

And because they’ve seen the world outside the city limits.

Also, I stayed in the Ralph Lauren Suite in Brugge, Belgium.

They’ve all shown efficient dexterity in their business matters.

 

Do You Have Efficient Dexterity?

My hometown is about as far from New York as you can get on dry land.

I went down for my high school reunion and saw this view.

What the hell?

Why isn’t more done with land this close to water?

Then the news hit.

Was I a clairvoyant or what?

My new super power is seeing land use?

Naw, just looking around.

What I saw on the look around didn’t include the behind the scenes activities, so I’m no insider.

Not a visionary, either. I just like taking a look around.

 

My next prediction:

Efficient dexterity is seeing what’s there, and what isn’t there.

Portland ‘Bridge City’ doesn’t need another bridge.

Neither does New York.

But tunnels are another story.

The island of Manhattan is connected to the rest of the world through 21 bridges and 15 tunnels.

 

The freeway on Portland’s Eastside will one day be in a tunnel, opening up river side property for a new city view.

That’s right, an Eastside tunnel.

How do I know this?

It’s a feeling I get when I look over there from Waterfront Park, the next step.

I’m not the first.

Small steps lead to big movements.

If the North Bend Waterfront can change, then change again, and again, so can Portland.

With enough efficient dexterity one more tunnel ought to be just right?