http://blog.rickdancer.com Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:03:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   There is a change in tide that’s coming. Some say the wave will be blue. Others hope the Red Sea will part. But the wave I see is actually one my dad used to call “a Sleeper “. From the distance these waves don’t look like much. You know they’re out ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/09/sleeper-waves/ What I think doesn’t really matter. It’s what I believe that really counts. This is a discussion I had with a friend of mine the other day.  Here's the difference. What we think starts as an idea. We get those ideas from what we read, what we hear or what we experience ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/09/what-i-think-vs-what-i-believe/ I keep hearing so much about Change these days. So what does CHANGE really mean? Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary says "Change" is: to make different in some particular to make radically different to give a different position, course, or direction to to replace with another to make a shift from one to another to exchange for ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/09/change-get-ready/ http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/on-the-trail-oregon-state-fair/ http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/on-the-trail-lane-and-benton-county-fairs/ If my life was a book, spread across pages for people to read, what would it say? Page after page filled with seconds, minutes, hours, days and years. But what would it really look like? We tend to look at our lives based on chapters. We measure success by standards decided ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/dont-forget-the-surprise/ http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/lifes-ups-and-downs/ The media is starting to talk about my race for Secretary of State. It's talking about how much money I've raised. That's the headline in the City/Region Section of the Register Guard. Yesterday there was an article in the Associated Press that talked about this place we all hang out ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/media-is-talking-about-the-money/     I have a rant I’d like to share with you. It has to do with the time 6:50 pm.  When I worked in the news business I liked 6:50 in the evening. That meant there were only 10 minutes left in the newscast and in 600 seconds I would be ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/650-pm/ The office is empty. It’s just me. There are some flowers on the desk that my wife dropped off. Over on the counter, some chocolate covered coffee beans that my staff brought in. The light on the desk lamp is on. The office next door is dark. The sky is ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/words/ Kathy picked up this book in Sisters this weekend that is amazing. It's Called "Live like you were dying." It was written by the same guys who wrote the song Tim McGraw sings. Anyway, in the book is this one page and this is what is written on it. I like ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/live-like-you-were-dying/ I’m standing on the edge of a canyon. There is a huge gap between where I stand and the other side. I know I must get to the other side but the expanse is great and getting there seems impossible. For months, my efforts have been on building a bridge. It ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/unexpected-plans/ Politics is a weird world. I left my career in Television News because I was tired of talking about change and wanted to get to a place where I could actually help make change. But do you know what I’m finding? Change won’t just happen you have to fight for ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/politics-needs-a-little-cobbler/ I really like this picture of our family. It shows, while we are one unit, we are very separate individuals. Jake, my oldest boy is into cars, long hair, and being who he is supposed to be. Jake asks lots of questions and love fast cars and computers. Kathy started cycling ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/this-picture-says-it-all/ He must have heard me. I was on the phone, just now, making cold calls for money. A cold call is when you phone people who’ve donated to Republican Candidates to ask for their support. I called a woman named Susan from the Beaverton area. We had a great conversation and ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/he-must-have-heard-me/ Stories that start our day.   I walk into the coffee shop in Welch’s this morning. The woman at the counter seems a little frazzled. She starts explaining her morning and I understand. As she was leaving for work she finds a bear in the front yard near her car. Her husband ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/stories-that-start-your-day/ We have no conception of what God is aiming at, and as we go on it gets more and more vague. I read this quote by Oswald Chambers this morning and it hit me, this is how life works. We in the Faith Community spend so much time trying to figure ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/vague-the-only-way-to-live/ Kathy and I just got back from what was supposed to be a sixty-mile bike ride. We thought we’d finish in four or five hours. As it turns out the ride was 74 miles and took us more than seven hours. The ride took us along the backside of London, ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/the-second-best-feeling-in-the-world/ When you step out of one life and into another there can be casualties. Five months ago, when I stepped out of TV and into Politics things in my life had to die. In some cases it was more like murder but we won’t get into that here. In the big ... http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/08/something-old-something-new/ http://blog.rickdancer.com/2008/07/on-the-trail-baker-city-haines-and-astoria/