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Gratitude Friday 9-30-22 – A Nation Born of Immigrants and Revolutionists
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” ― Franklin D....
Sep 30, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 9-2-22 – The Willingness to Risk Trust
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ― Ernest Hemingway Trust can be a difficult thing, something I...
Sep 23, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 9-16-22 – Ten Years on the Job
“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not...
Sep 16, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 9-9-22 – Live Music
“We were ready to rock out and we waited and waited and finally it was our turn ... there were a half million people asleep. These people...
Sep 9, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 9-2-22 – The Kindness of Strangers
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in...
Sep 2, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 8-26-22 – Down the Shore
“Vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on...
Aug 26, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 8-19-22 – Human Connection
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our...
Aug 19, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 8-12-22 – Tobacco Recovery
Those who have known me all my life, know that I was a heavy tobacco user. I started smoking around age 14. Back then, there were vague...
Aug 12, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 8-5-22 – The Dog Days of Summer
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel...
Aug 5, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 7-29-22 – I’ve Got a Bike You Can Ride It if You Like
“I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good” – Syd Barrett &...
Jul 29, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 7-22-22 – The Webb of Time & Space
This gratitude Friday, I am reflecting on our desire to explore. Our drive to want to know what is over the horizon, under the water and...
Jul 22, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 7-15-22 – A Man in the Woods
This gratitude Friday, I am grateful for American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). He was born in Concord, Massachusetts...
Jul 15, 20223 min read


Gratitude Friday 7-8-22 – Thirty-Five Gallons (BUT NOT ALL AT ONCE)!
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,...
Jul 8, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 7-1-22 – A Front Row Seat to Human Resiliency
“Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and...
Jul 1, 20224 min read


Gratitude Friday 6-24-22 – The Summer Solstice
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching...
Jun 24, 20224 min read
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