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. 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
This post is best viewed from the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Compassion recognizes in another what we recognize in ourselves.” ~ Pema Chodrom In all my years no virtue has come to make more sense to me than compassion, the willingness to act for the well-being of … Continue reading Why Compassion?
On the 14th of June of this year, 2025, God willing, I will complete my 40th year of sobriety. I thought during the coming weeks and months I’d share a few memories of sobriety with you. One of my first and most memorable moments occurred at the old Fremont Hall with a woman I came to know as Helen B., who chaired the late night … Continue reading The Miracle Of Showing Up
To hear the music in today’s post, please go to the Just A Thought website. PLEASE CLICK HERE In life, sometimes, we tumble into a crevasse, deep enough, dark enough, dangerous enough, to reorder our priorities and change how we live the rest of our lives. My tumble taught me three things about crevasses: They’re almost impossible to avoid, They’re terrifyingly consuming, They’re virtually impossible … Continue reading The Great Crevasse