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...
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- 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...
- Nov 25, 2022
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 11-25-22 – Black Friday 2022
It’s funny how during Thanksgiving we’re thankful for what we already have but then we practically trample each other for stuff we don’t...
- Nov 18, 2022
- 3 min
Gratitude Friday 11-18-22 – A Conspiracy of Ravens
“Honestly, all crows are not ravens” ― Munia Khan Julie and I went out to the movies last week in the town we grew up in, Bethlehem PA....
- Nov 11, 2022
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 11-11-22 – Gratitude and the Eeyore Effect
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of...
- Nov 4, 2022
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 11-4-22 – In Praise of Our Local Veterinary
“Good veterinarians talk to animals. Great veterinarians hear them talk back.” – unknown Julie and I are dog people. On readback, it...
- Oct 28, 2022
- 4 min
Gratitude Friday 10-28-22 – My Fall Migrations
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus This Fall the leaves seem extra to me. One reason may be that the...
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