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...
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- 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...
- 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....
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