Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
To read today’s post in its optimal format and access the video please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. ……….…… There are a lot of things being torn down these days and it’s hard not to feel as if the sky is falling. Who doesn’t get the urge to run away? To wit: Marsha has taken to standing guard over our … Continue reading This Was Their Finest Hour
To read today’s post in its optimal format and listen to the music, please go the the Just A Thought website. Please click here. The story of the Baby Boom generation has been told through our music. We were blessed to have had an extraordinary soundtrack. It’s hard to overstate its significance. Music has the unique power to create a memory so strongly that it can … Continue reading In the Time of the Blackbird
What a powerful opening line: “The older I get the more I have come to appreciate that the act of humility is not a concession I make to the Creator but the simple recognition of where I stand in the order of things.” As the years pass, I have filtered out of my consciousness many of the values that we lived by. The flesh is … Continue reading Another Lesson in Humility (by Joe)
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” ~ Bishop Desmond Tutu I’ve been wondering why so many have lost the capacity to see their own … Continue reading Let’s Just Live by the Golden Rule!
Some great lessons come to us not as long, drawn out ordeals born in pain, tears and suffering, but in moments of comic relief where we’ve been made the butt of a cosmic joke.