RAMBLINGS FROM BOB
DECEMBER 2010 | JUNE 2010

6-2010
This is the first of what I hope to be many “Rambling Blog from Bob” entries. These are being email and are posted on my newly created web site, www.strommen.com . These will not be a “published formal community blog”, it will be a blog to my community of friends, acquaintances, centers of influences and clients. As my website stated, these will be informal in nature and these ramblings will be about life, planning with purpose, what matters and thoughts of the moment. I hope you find these fun to read and will enable you to get to know Bob better as a person.

In everyone’s life there are turning points and defining events that shape or reshape who you are and how you will approach life. The past year and most specifically the past 5 months have been one of those defining periods in my life.

Defining moments in life provide an opportunity to decide how you will let the event(s) affect you, in my case, I am finding it an opportunity for growth, reflection, change and revitalization. Professionally, my website is a public banner statement of this revitalization. To embrace life, honor heritage and be thankful for legacy. I am committed to taking this revitalization to those around me and how I approach life and business.

One of my favorite vocalists is Josh Groban, a young Italian Tenor who calms my soul and revitalizes my emotions. I was given a CD entitled, “Noel”, one of the songs, “Thankful” touched me. ….part of the lyrics are:

“Thankful" by Josh Groban
Somedays we forget
To look around us
Somedays we can't see
The joy that surrounds us
So caught up inside ourselves
We take when we should give.

So for tonight we pray for
What we know can be.
And on this day we hope for
What we still can't see.
It's up to us to be the change
And even though we all can still do more
There's so much to be thankful for.

The other day I was driving down Washington Avenue downtown and saw a middle age mother, two children and apparently the father in a wheel chair being driven by blowing in a tube for movement and his chin for direction changes, at that moment I was reminded that “There is so much to be thankful for!”