Clean Up Your Own Garbage
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.
Category Archives: Sobriety
Helplessly Hopeful — Celebrating 40 Years of Sobriety
To read today’s post in its optimal format and listen to the music, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. This week I celebrated 40 years of sobriety. In remembrance of when this journey began I’d like to share what I call my helplessly hoping.moment with you, They are one person. They are two alone. They are three together. … Continue reading Helplessly Hopeful — Celebrating 40 Years of Sobriety
An Ode to Wokeness
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
Our Shared Lifeboat
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
Why Compassion?
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?