

- 3 days ago
- 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...


- Jan 13
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 01/13/23 – The Days of Mid-January
I started to reflect on being in mid-January. Where I live, it is generally cold. The weather is unpredictable. It is the time of the...


- Jan 6
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 01/06/23 – Tabula Rasa? Not Really
“In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you...


- Dec 30, 2022
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 12-30-22 – Looking Back on Gratitude Fridays
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ― Confucius I started doing weekly Friday posts Gratitude on October...


- Dec 23, 2022
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 12-23-22 – Standing Still
Solstice - derived from the Latin sol ("sun") and sistere ("to stand still") We are in the darkest of days. We just passed through the...


- Dec 16, 2022
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 12-16-22 – In the Presence of the Masters
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a...


- Dec 9, 2022
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 12-9-22 – Tribe
“Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.” ― Sebastian Junger This week, we observed the entrance of the...


- Dec 2, 2022
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 12-2-22 – Endings & New Beginnings
“How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss This is my 57th December. Something to be grateful for. I almost did not make that first...