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Gratitude Friday 5 23 25 Remembering the Last Pour at the BSC Home Plant
I grew up in a steel town, in a steel family. Every single facet of the world I was raised in was influenced by the second largest steel...
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Gratitude Friday 5 16 25 It's a Beautiful Reciprocal Arrangement
The title of this weekly gratitude post is from one of my favorite quotes of all time written by JD Salinger, below. While it may not...
May 163 min read


Gratitude Friday 5 9 25 - Annabelle Dittbrenner - a Force of Nature
When I think back at the people who have shaped my life, some really stand out. There were several people I was not particularly close to...
May 94 min read


Gratitude Friday 05 2 25 – A US Marine Hero José Antonio Gutiérrez Say His Name Remember His Sacrifice
I recently read a book written by the late Senator John McCain. US Statesman and Vietnam POW. The book was called The Restless Wave, Good...
May 24 min read


Gratitude Friday 04 25 25 – My Back to the Old Man of Stoer as a Young Man
The Old Man of Stoer, Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye Scotland I love to travel. Julie and I have done less of it in recent years for...
Apr 254 min read


Gratitude Friday 4 18 2025 – Through the Looking Glass of 1925
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” ― C.S. Lewis I...
Apr 183 min read


Gratitude Friday 04/11/25 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...
Apr 114 min read


Gratitude Friday 4 4 2025 Our Moai
“Alfred Métraux (1902–1963, a Swiss ethnologist who studied Easter Island extensively) wrote, “When the Easter Islanders of today are...
Apr 44 min read


Gratitude Friday 03 28 2025 – The Big U, Pride of American Engineering
“When completed in 1952, the ship was hailed as a technological masterpiece at a time when “made in America” meant the best.” - Steven...
Mar 284 min read


Gratitude Friday 03 21 2025 - A Discourse on Vigilante Justice for All of My 8 Readers
“ Hatred is like an acid. It can do more damage to the vessel in which it is stored as well than to the object on which it is poured ” -...
Mar 214 min read


GF 3 14 25 A Student of Non-Traditional Learning
“ The greatest teacher, failure is. We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters .” ― Yoda I am no Yoda, but I am...
Mar 144 min read


Gratitude Friday 3 7 25 Surviving Chaos: The Who at JFK Stadium 1982
I grew up in the golden age of rock music. We all know these bands, even as the musicians are either long gone or in their geriatric...
Mar 74 min read


Gratitude Friday 2-28-2025 – Show Me Revisited
This is a repost with additional thoughts about a dog we lost 25 months ago, nearly to the day. I look at the words in the preceding...
Feb 285 min read


Gratitude Friday 2 21 25 Dogs
I love dogs. I think dogs are better humans than most humans, no intended slight to any of my hominoid readers. Gratitude Friday is my...
Feb 214 min read


Gratitude Friday 02 14 25 A Mean Self-Centered Society or a Giving and Empathetic One
It is Valentines Day, the day of love. One of the things I think about is who we are as a nation. Are we a mean and self-centered society...
Feb 144 min read
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