What is the difference between the words "holy" and "whole"? I'm not sure that there is much of a difference. Clearly, from their similarities in sound and spelling it would be logical that there must be some common derivation, right? Let's check. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, there IS, in fact, a common derivation. … Continue reading “W-hol(e)y” Sh!t.
Month: June 2024
Pen and Paper.
What are the most important things needed to live a good life? Have pen and paper. Will travel.
“You can’t do it without Jesus.”
You can't do it without Jesus. That's what the book said, or something like it, the small red one that my father had given me and the other members of my family of origin many years before, and which I was now huddled over beneath that tree in the "Garden of Eden" outside the Bank … Continue reading “You can’t do it without Jesus.”
Writing.
Who do you spend the most time with? Writing.
Presents.
"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a GIFT. That's why it's called the present."Bil Keane, The Family Circus (possibly) Presents = Presence. To be "present" is to "present" ourselves in every moment of the Present. When we offer presents to one another on each other's birthday, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Festival of … Continue reading Presents.
Writing.
What fears have you overcome and how? Writing.
When the breakdown happened…
When the breakdown happened, that's all there was... Break. Down. The ground was the brakes, and then it was all DOWNhill from there. And then some. But there was an UP, too. And that was from you, mother and father. I just wish I could have appreciated it more at the time. But that's a … Continue reading When the breakdown happened…
Writing.
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life. Writing.
On the Power of Self-Affirmation
I began reading Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Strength to Love, a collection of his sermons, several years ago. I had been inspired to do this from personal failure, however, the underlying, both proximate and specific, reason was that I desired to read the words OF an exceptionally inspiring individual, not, simply, ABOUT them. … Continue reading On the Power of Self-Affirmation
Observations from the Brink 