Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
For a better reading experience (better text formatting), please click on the link above in your email, or Click Here For a whole host of reasons these days feel a little dark and foreboding — just like it is when a hurricane is ready to make landfall. Who doesn’t feel a little: exposed vulnerable endangered unsafe\ We need to remind each other these days are … Continue reading Finding Your Safe Place
[This post includes a short video best experienced from the Just a Thought website. Please click the link above.] “Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.” ~ Emily Dickinson I’ve reached an age where I’m frequently hearing of an old friend boarding the carriage bound for eternity. There … Continue reading Live a Good Life. Now.
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” ― Martha Washington And yet in places like Gaza and Ukraine and the Sudan it’s impossible to believe that anyone could find happiness in such harsh, brutal and terrifying circumstances. But miraculously, people do. And it is one of the great miracles of life. We see it … Continue reading The Flutter of Happiness
I’ve been feeling a little on the edge these days — like I kinda need help crawling back. Do you ever get this way? When I find myself living on life’s razor’s edge, I remember a story of the wise fisherman. An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the … Continue reading Laughing on the Edge
I’m kind of blown away by how complicated life has gotten! My heart sometimes aches for simpler time before technology, social media and a world filled with too many choices. Watching TV requires multiple gadgets, memberships require multiple passwords, and billing statements have multiple pages. Public restrooms require multiple numbers to open doors. With social media, my business has suddenly become everyone’s business. who … Continue reading Sweet Simplicity