Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
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
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. As the grandson of Irish immigrants I loved listening to my grandfather offer up his words of wisdom. Grandpa spoke in a deep Irish brogue with delightful, strange inflections. His sentences always ended on a higher note than they began. But what I loved most was the … Continue reading Irish Thought Candles
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. I recently came upon this headline in the Seattle Times: “It’s Breathtaking: Entitled Behavior on Flights is Getting Worse” It went on to say….. “There’s a societal trend toward selfishness; it’s ‘me-first’ and ‘me-only,’ says Lori Freemire, a Denver-based flight attendant. ‘There’s little regard for the gate … Continue reading Our Shared Lifeboat
Destiny’s starting line can be hard to find; sometimes we need to borrow from someone else in our search. This is how I began to discover my own destiny. It was May of 1970 and Joe Thomas was visiting Seattle raising money for the work of the Ecumenical Institute. I’d spent the previous summer studying in Chicago at the Institute and I offered to be … Continue reading Discovering Your Destiny
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. Sometimes you think you know something, but when you try to explain it you discover that you really have no clear idea of what you mean. That happened to me when I was teaching a college class on great works of literature. We were reading Dante’s “The … Continue reading Living the Virtuous Life (by Joe Nagy)