Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
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
“I write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ~ Anais Nin On the morning of December 31, 2015 Marsha and I published our first post.. I want to share a few thoughts on turning 10. First, a little history. What gave rise to JAT were heartbreaking losses: my brother Steve in 2009 my brother Kevin in 2015 Their deaths left me … Continue reading 10 Years of Just A Thought
To hear the music in today’s post from singer/songwriter Mark Pearson please go to the Just A Thought website. Some twenty years ago Charles Hahn, who passed away in 2020, shared a wonderful Christmas story with the family. It was Christmas 1935. Charles was five years old. His family lived in Oklahoma City and like so many families during the Depression, they struggled to make … Continue reading The Best Christmas Gift Ever!
Friends, On Thanksgiving Day weekend, as I stopped to consider what I was grateful for, my thoughts quickly went to the natural beauty that surrounds us everywhere — if we remember to stop and notice. These images, in their exquisite detail, caught my attention. I invite you take a few minutes to look around, whatever the season where you live, and take in the activity … Continue reading Unspeakable Beauty