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Gratitude Friday – 5/7/21 The Kindling of a Spark
“A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.” ― Mollie Marti At some point early in...
May 7, 20214 min read


Gratitude Friday 4-30-21 A Wake Up
“Daybreak,' he said, looking out at it. 'I always thought it was funny that dawn should be called daybreak. This is when the day is made...
Apr 30, 20214 min read


Gratitude Friday 04/23/21 - Barely Graduating High School and Surviving the Hubris of Youth
“Dropped acid, Blue Oyster Cult concert, fourteen years old, And I thought them lasers were a spider chasing me. On my way home, got...
Apr 23, 20217 min read


Gratitude Friday 04/16/21 - Community Glue
“A genius is a person who, seeing farther and probing deeper than other people, has a different set of ethical valuations from theirs,...
Apr 16, 20214 min read


Gratitude Friday 4/9/21 - Being 56
I turned 56 years old on Monday. Amazing, particularly in consideration that my life plan at age 16 revolved around an impending nuclear...
Apr 9, 20214 min read


Gratitude Friday 4/2/21 - On the Road of Hope, Purpose & Connection
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our...
Apr 2, 20214 min read


Gratitude Friday 3/26/21 - Music & The Brain Box
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms...
Mar 26, 20214 min read


Gratitude Friday 3/19/21 - Walking My Way Into Recovery in the 80s
This gratitude Friday, I am reflective on my “walk” into recovery that started back in the mid-1980s. For background, I descended into...
Mar 19, 20214 min read


Gratitude Friday 3/12/21 - Light at the End of the Pandemic Tunnel
This week marks the anniversary of when we started to shut down society a year ago. It has been something I have been reflecting on a lot...
Mar 12, 20214 min read


Gratitude Friday 3/5/21 - What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up?
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Gratitude Friday, thinking this...
Mar 5, 20214 min read


Gratitude Friday 2/26/21 - Corvidae Corvus in My Hood
“The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; so wealth will be with those of a like disposition.” – Thiruvalluvar...
Feb 26, 20213 min read


Gratitude Friday 02/19/21 - Pandemic Reflections
Thinking back to mid-January of 2020, it seems like a lifetime ago. I was in in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. The end of my visit coincided...
Feb 19, 20213 min read


Gratitude Friday 2/12/21 – The New Street Radish Miracle of February 1990
This is a gratitude Friday post reflecting on my greatest physical feat. It occurred 30 years ago this month. It was a fully unintended...
Feb 12, 20213 min read


Gratitude Friday 2-5-21 The “Big Snow” of 2021
“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.” ― Vivian Greene I have a confession to make....
Feb 5, 20214 min read


Pushing the Gear Shift of Conduct Back from Neutral to Good
The recovery connection to this post may be a bit tangential, but I do see the processes of critical thinking, self-evaluation and a...
Jan 30, 20217 min read
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