K.I.S.S — part 4

REMINDER: This has nothing to do with Gene or Paul or any others in a certain band, but this has everything to do with a brilliant adaptation of something I learned from my dad.

“Keep it super simple,” said Mark Victor Hanson at some point in the 1990s in a lecture at St. Anthony’s Medical Center.

When I climbed back off the floor and into my chair, I couldn’t write those four words down into my notebook fast enough.

I missed the next three, maybe four, probably five minutes of whatever he said next.

I flashed back to the upstairs apartment, sitting at our table only a few steps from the open screen door, with my both of my parents. Those were rare moments, all three of us together, for many reasons. And I savored every one.

I had glommed onto “Keep it simple” but longed for completion…for a polite, encouraging way to say the same thing as “Keep it simple, stupid” hit and then resonated.

“Keep it super simple” worked.

And then along came Jesus.

See you back here tomorrow?