Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. If you’re anything like me some of your best lessons in life have come from some of our oldest teachers. Maybe the greatest of all was Aesop, the ancient Greek storyteller. Aesop was a slave who lived around the mid-6th Century BCE. It’s said he won his freedom through … Continue reading Inspiration from Aesop
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. I believe all of us, at some point in our lives, are called to do an honest, thorough self‑examination of: our behavior, our motives, our temperament, in order to understand who we are, how our actions affect other people, and in order to raise the level of our game. … Continue reading Taming the Whirlwind
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. The greatest lesson I was ever taught was on — LETTING GO. Every now and again I come upon a story that startles me in its clarity. Here is one on letting go. The Traveler and the Anchor A young seeker, carrying a heavy rucksack filled with maps, holy … Continue reading Thy Kingdom Come — My Kingdom Go
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. This thought remembers an old friend I wrote about on the first Sunday in January 2016: Alice Bailey. Alice was a tiny English woman who played a very important role in the early life of my family. She was a surrogate mother to our mom and a surrogate grandmother … Continue reading Half Empty or Half Full?
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. When Marsha and I arrived back in Seattle in 2017 I felt a little like Rip Van Winkle, waking up to a hometown I no longer recognized. When I first left in 1971, times were tough. That old billboard said it all. We returned to an area that was … Continue reading An Icon of Kindness