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Gratitude Friday 05/26/23 – Memorial Day 2023 The Ballad of Ira Hayes
Johnny Cash released a song in 1964, the Ballad of Ira Hayes – it was on the Bitter Tears Album, written to honor the history of Native...
- May 19
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 05/19/23 – Grace Under Extreme Duress
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away, unless it is surrendered.” ― Michael J....
- May 12
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 05/12/23 – The Dreamers
Themes have developed here over the weekly gratitude musings. Books are a theme for me. I was thinking about this recently and how in my...
- May 5
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 05/05/23 – National Space Day
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos Today is National Space Day in...
- Apr 28
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 04/28/23 – A Friday Morning Honor Flight
Last week, I was in DC for a conference and some meetings. The next morning, before heading home I decided to take a trip over to the...
- Apr 21
- 3 min
Gratitude Friday 04/21/23 – Time. How Did It Get So Late So Soon?
Time. I seem to have less of it than ever! Yet, even as it passes, it has provided me so much. The challenges navigated have provided me...
- Apr 14
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 04/14/23 - Ruination Day
“To be alive at all is to have scars.” ― John Steinbeck For singer songwriter Gilliam Welch, April 14th is known as “Ruination Day.” As...
- Apr 7
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 04/7/23 A Mailman Who Made His Last Delivery
“I didn't expect to do this for a living, be a recording artist. I was just playing music for the fun of it and writing songs to ... that...
- Mar 31
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 03/31/23 Ode to Spring
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so...
- Mar 24
- 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...