{"id":14025,"date":"2017-04-21T16:22:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T20:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=14025"},"modified":"2017-07-10T06:30:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T10:30:36","slug":"5-friday-faves-the-office-accents-resilience-community-and-long-goodbyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=14025","title":{"rendered":"5 Friday Faves &#8211; The Office, Accents, Resilience, Community, and Long Goodbyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Blog-Friday-Faves-006-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11080\" src=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Blog-Friday-Faves-006-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3996\" height=\"2540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Blog-Friday-Faves-006-2.jpg 3996w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Blog-Friday-Faves-006-2-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Blog-Friday-Faves-006-2-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Blog-Friday-Faves-006-2-1024x651.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3996px) 100vw, 3996px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re rolling into the weekend with gorgeous Spring weather to draw us outside. The fact that the grass must be cut before the neighbors organize an intervention also motivates. Beauty surrounds us\u00a0here as April moves to May and the flowers bust out.<a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P1290389-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14146\" src=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P1290389-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4320\" height=\"3240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P1290389-1.jpg 4320w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P1290389-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P1290389-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/P1290389-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4320px) 100vw, 4320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For your Friday refreshment, here are my five favorite finds for this week:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) The Office<\/strong> &#8211; What a funny TV show! <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Office_(U.S._TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Office<\/em><\/a> (not to be confused with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Office_(UK_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British version<\/a>) ran from 2005-2013 and still has a huge cult following. It is a parody of the American workplace. This mockumentary gives us an opportunity off-the-job to chuckle at the quizzical nature of some of our workplaces and relationships within them. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondtheguitar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nathan Mills<\/a> has done a brilliant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pTCaNmT0KPE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guitar arrangement<\/a> of both the show&#8217;s theme as well as musical interludes in several of the episodes. <a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14134\" src=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3433.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3433-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3433-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3433-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch, enjoy, and remember this show that has\u00a0humor and an\u00a0innocence very different from many of today&#8217;s TV sitcoms.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE OFFICE Meets Classical Guitar\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pTCaNmT0KPE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pTCaNmT0KPE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube Video &#8211; <em>The Office Meets Classical Guitar<\/em> &#8211; Beyond the Guitar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Accents<\/strong> &#8211; I love languages. Over the course of life, I&#8217;ve tackled Spanish, Arabic, and a bit of French. Living in North Africa for many years allowed me to be immersed in languages different from my own\u00a0mother tongue. <a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=5693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Language learning<\/a>\u00a0is such a useful discipline for all of us and I&#8217;m thrilled when I see parents helping their children become multi-lingual. The younger\u00a0we are when learning languages the better able we are to naturalize our accents in those languages &#8211; substantiated <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.languagelizard.com\/2011\/09\/27\/6-reasons-why-children-should-learn-languages-as-early-as-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/accents-are-forever-35886605\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let the fear of a Southern (or other) drawl keep you from learning and speaking in a newly acquired language. Dialect coach\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sammigrant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sammi Grant<\/a> gives some interesting advice in her YouTube video\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ouDcXRU-rs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>How to Do 12 Different Accents<\/em> <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Do 12 Different Accents\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ouDcXRU-rs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Resilience<\/strong> &#8211; I just started following <a href=\"https:\/\/theartofcharm.com\/jordan-harbinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jordan Harbinger<\/a> recently, and here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/theartofcharm.com\/art-of-personal-development\/becoming-resilient-the-art-and-science-of-grit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his take<\/a> on resilience &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theartofcharm.com\/art-of-personal-development\/becoming-resilient-the-art-and-science-of-grit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Becoming Resilient &#8211; the Art and Science of Grit<\/em><\/a>. Resilience has been intriguing to me for many years, and I wrote some months ago (<a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=5913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>) on another author <a href=\"http:\/\/acuff.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jon Acuff&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a>counsel on\u00a0<em>grit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Blog-Resilience-Flickr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14111\" src=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Blog-Resilience-Flickr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Blog-Resilience-Flickr.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Blog-Resilience-Flickr-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Blog-Resilience-Flickr-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thatgirlcrystal\/8408777829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crystal Coleman, Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Harbinger&#8217;s piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/theartofcharm.com\/art-of-personal-development\/becoming-resilient-the-art-and-science-of-grit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>resilience<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>When I talk about resilience, I\u2019m talking about the ability to stay engaged with a person, project, or circumstance \u2014 to stay in the game \u2014 through its inevitable ups and downs&#8230;we\u2019re talking about our ability to handle life, in all its unpredictable and maddening difficulty, without falling off, going crazy, or hurting ourselves in the process.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Harbinger goes on to talk (podcast and blog) about the journey of becoming resilient, or gritty. We all have life occurrences that input into whether we grow resilience or take on a victim&#8217;s worldview. We can&#8217;t change the situations maybe but we can change how we respond to them. Having strong, nurturing relationships and choosing to learn as much as we can from adverse experiences are two processes of becoming resilient.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be resilient in the hard places and help those I love to be the same. Hard things happen, but we don&#8217;t have to be devastated by them. Learn from these guys, and others, about the resilient life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Community &#8211; <\/strong>There are no words really that express well enough the great value of community. Deep caring friendships reflecting love of a nature only God can infuse. We experience in this small group of folks in our local church. Community is also a part of our work, neighborhood, and family. I hope you know true community as well. Tell us about in Comments below. <a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3688.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14139\" src=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3688.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3688-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3688-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3688-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3689.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14140\" src=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3689.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3689.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3689-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3689-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3689-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>5) Long Goodbyes<\/strong> &#8211; Saying and experiencing long goodbyes &#8211; It&#8217;s part of what we walked with <a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=12426\">Dad<\/a> and what we learned about God, each other, and our own hearts in the process. Saying goodbye (for awhile) to a dear friend. The final closing of an office. They can both wear you out and leave you totally satisfied&#8230;you did all you could do to honor that passing.<a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3666.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14142\" src=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3666.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3666-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3666-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3666-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3684.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14143\" src=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3684.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3684-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3684-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3684-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Bonuses<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpecialOlympics\/videos\/10156159169923782\/\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThoughtfulWomen.org\/videos\/1806397469594969\/\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/viralthread\/videos\/731127433726609\/\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re rolling into the weekend with gorgeous Spring weather to draw us outside. The fact that the grass must be cut before the neighbors organize an intervention also motivates. Beauty surrounds us\u00a0here as April moves to May and the flowers bust out. For your Friday refreshment, here are my five favorite finds for this week: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=14025\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 Friday Faves &#8211; The Office, Accents, Resilience, Community, and Long Goodbyes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3121,926,1229,1628,1704,2126,1705,2307,147,3208,1801,1265,903,2556,2547,109,2776,33,1607,1732,2611,432,789,887,4160,610,1002,55,184,2817,3748],"tags":[4591,958,4596,2548,573,190,148,4594,1802,463,1651,2381,1466,4595,324,4592,292,1136,2149,4593,4590,560,2234,3755],"class_list":["post-14025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-attending-or-focus","category-beauty-of-gods-creation","category-character","category-communication","category-community","category-conversations","category-emotions","category-family-2","category-finishing-strong","category-friday-faves","category-friends","category-grace","category-grief-and-loss","category-guitar","category-home-2","category-hospitality","category-inspired","category-language","category-leadership","category-love-your-neighbor","category-music","category-relationships","category-remembering","category-resilience","category-thanksgiving-or-gratefulness","category-transformational","category-transitions","category-travel","category-workplace-culture","category-youtube-channel","tag-accents","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-art-of-charm","tag-beyond-the-guitar","tag-classical-guitar","tag-community","tag-dad","tag-dialects","tag-friday-faves","tag-grief","tag-grit","tag-guitar","tag-jon-acuff","tag-jordan-harbinger","tag-language-learning","tag-long-goodbyes","tag-loss","tag-nathan-mills","tag-resilience","tag-sammi-grant","tag-the-office","tag-travel-2","tag-workplace-culture","tag-youtube-channel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pauPAB-3Ed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14025"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15077,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025\/revisions\/15077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}