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Gratitude Friday 9-8-23 – The Lesson of September 8th, 1974
“You know, all this is speculating. I don't think any of us really know what's going on. I think there's always that pendulum action in...
Sep 8, 20234 min read


Gratitude Friday 9-1-23 – Celebrating Recovery Month 2023
Today is the start of national recovery month. Many readers outside of the recovery community may not know the significance of recovery...
Sep 1, 20234 min read


Gratitude Friday 8-25-23 – Liberation
Today is the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Paris. The US Third Army, led by General George S. Patton came into the city and the...
Aug 25, 20233 min read


Gratitude Friday 8-18-23 – Custodians of History
Nature is a huge part of my self-care process. Whenever possible, I spend a morning in the woods, walking around, looking at wildlife and...
Aug 18, 20234 min read


Gratitude Friday 8-11-23 – HaggisVitae at the Philadelphia Folk Festival 2015
“What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000” ― Wavy Gravy For readers who may not know, my wife Julie is an artist. Her web...
Aug 11, 20234 min read


Gratitude Friday 8-4-23 – Holding Up Our Heroes
“We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person...
Aug 4, 20234 min read


Gratitude Friday 7-28-23 – Six Months with a Rescue Dog
“A dog is not a thing. A thing is replaceable. A dog is not. A thing is disposable. A dog is not. A thing doesn’t have a heart. A dog’s...
Jul 28, 20234 min read


Gratitude Friday 7-21-23 – Valuing Those We Have Lost
“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way...
Jul 21, 20234 min read


Gratitude Friday 7-14-23 – Tribes of Inspiration
“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a...
Jul 14, 20234 min read


Gratitude Friday 7-7-23 – PA Governors School for the Arts 1982
“We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.” - John Hughes, The Breakfast Club My pathway in life has...
Jul 7, 20234 min read


Gratitude Friday 6-30-23 – To be in Alba
“Be happy while you’re living, For you’re a long time dead.” – Scottish Proverb I have been thinking of late of travel, and not the...
Jun 30, 20234 min read


Gratitude Friday 6-23-23 – The Zenith of 2023
We made the mid-point of 2023. We rolled though it, at least in respect to our revolution around the sun on Wednesday at 10:57 AM EST. It...
Jun 23, 20234 min read


Gratitude Friday 6-16-23 – Reuniting a House Divided
"A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not...
Jun 16, 20234 min read


GF 6-9-23 – Still In Search of the Lord God Bird
“The Singer Tract was the one forest that looked and felt and smelled and sounded as it must have thousands of years before, there was a...
Jun 9, 20235 min read


Gratitude Friday 06/2/23 – Devils Lake, the Star of the North and Its Healers
The first time I ever heard of Devil’s Lake, I was around 13 or 14 years old. I can recall my grandfather saying that when he passed, he...
Jun 2, 20234 min read
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