- 5 days ago
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 3 24 23 – The Big Ol’ Bug Is the New Baby Now
Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of...
- Mar 17
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 3 17 23 - The COVID Pandemic Triennial
Three years ago, the state of PA and much of the rest of nation went on COVID lock down For many of us, it registers as one of those...
- Mar 10
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 03 10 23 – Puppies, Small Packages of Challenge and Potential
As I have written about in prior posts, we lost our beloved K9 companion Mr. Tweaks at the end of January. We are dog people. Dog energy...
- Mar 3
- 4 min
GF 3-3-23 Storytelling and The Healing Arts
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” - Philip Pullman My first draft of this...
- Feb 24
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 2/24/23 – The New Street Radish Miracle of February 1990
This is a gratitude Friday post reflecting on my greatest physical feat. It occurred 33 years ago this month. I originally posted it in...
- Feb 17
- 3 min
Gratitude Friday 02/17/23 – Lost Generation Writers
“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves....
- Feb 10
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 2-10-2023 – Show Me
One of the myriad of phrases Mr. Tweaks, who we lost on January 29th understood was “show me.” We knew that he knew what it meant...
- Feb 3
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 02 03 23 Canis Lupus Familiaris
Descendant from Wolves, dogs are nearly perfect save one design flaw, their lives are far too short. We lost the one who was closest to...
- Jan 27
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 01/27/23 – Ripples of Recovery
“Hope is a waking dream.” ― Aristotle In what seems like a whole lifetime ago in the mid-1980s, I walked into a recovery fellowship...
- Jan 20
- 5 min
Gratitude Friday 01/20/23 – Tribute to Another Great One Gone
In the first week of January, Julie and I watched the JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Tribute Show webcast from the historic Ryman Auditorium. The...