Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
It seems appropriate when we’ve been marinating in fraught and difficult times to turn to a tale about a delightfully good man — particularly as we near St. Patrick’s Day. Well, I found such a tale. To bring it to life I’ve given it the face of a departed friend, an irrepressibly good and generous man: Tucker McHugh. Once upon a time in Ireland, there was … Continue reading What Would You Do With a Pot of Gold?
“The earth is sliced into furrows that seeds may burst with life; even thus with our wounds.” ~ Henry Stanley Haskins, The Eternal Balance I suspect these days we all have wounds bursting with new life — but how it hurts. Certainly, I see wounds bursting in people in my circle. So in this wounded age an old post authored by Joe Nagy came to … Continue reading Ground Zero of the Human Heart (with Joe Nagy)
To read the post in its optimal format please go to the Just A Thought website. “Rise up, oh dead of Ireland, and rouse our living men. The chance has come to us to at last win our own again. Life springs from death and from the graves of dead patriot men and women spring living nations.” ~ Pádraig Pearse St. Patrick’s Day is around … Continue reading The Warrior’s Harp
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. 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?