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To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. Our new grandson William was born on May 25, 2025. I dedicate this post to all our children and grandchildren who are trying to move forward with their lives. “What I seek to convey,” Franklin Roosevelt said, at the beginning of an address to the seventh … Continue reading Holding Vigil — Together
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.” – George Packer Without principles, whatever moral governor one might have stops working, and with it — … Continue reading Principles Matter
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. Be careful how you live… …“Your life may be the only Bible some people read.” ~ William Toms “Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.” ~ Jimi Hendrix These days it seems like our ship is badly listing and the waters around us are rising fast. Generations of humane … Continue reading Timeless Wisdom
To watch the video included in today’s post please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh When I was about 23, I was dropped off from work by a friend and rushed across the street without looking because … Continue reading Learning from Pain (by Eileen)
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “Your mind is a garden; your thoughts are the seeds. The harvest will bring either flowers or weeds.” ~ Robert Thomas Jacobs Maybe the most formative moment in my young life was the day I ~ WOKE UP ~ I woke up to the world beyond … Continue reading An Ode to Wokeness