Snow had graced her simple headstone with white, embellishing a life of poverty with a garnish of royalty. In similar fashion, winter’s kiss had regally adorned the muscular branches of the red oak that stood as a broad and gentle sentry above her grave. She had always wanted to be buried under an oak tree for the simple reason that poverty, … [Read more...]
Thankful for the Possibility of Possibilities – Flying with the Geese
As a kid, I remember the geese. Living along the Atlantic flyway, we had front row seats to nature on a grand quest. Nature’s dazzling palette had liberally painted the forests in burning reds, sizzling oranges and electric yellows as if nature had unleashed the whole of its artistic abilities in some massive brushstroke. Cascading off every … [Read more...]
Delivering the Newspaper – Lessons in Thanksgiving
I started delivering newspapers when I was a tender nine years of age. Had I been an adult looking at the nine year old that I was at the time, I probably wouldn’t have let myself take on the job at that age. In fact, I might have thought such as idea as skirting the periphery of the insane. But with my parent’s blessing, I started delivering … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving Quotes to Enrich Your Holiday
Thanksgiving is an incredibly rich time. It affords us the opportunity to reflect on the transformational power that an attitude of thanksgiving delivers into our lives. It likewise prompts us to move away from all lesser tendencies that tend to woo us and instead embrace this vitally important attitude. As a ‘thank you’ to my readers, I’ve … [Read more...]
Being Thankful – A Forgotten Art
Being thankful is a nice idea and something that we’re supposed to do. There’s something right and proper and good about it. But sometimes in the rush of life we don’t feel we have time to be thankful, or that our situation isn’t really something to be thankful about. Life sometimes is more about survival and less about anything else. So there … [Read more...]
Playing with the Fire – Thinking we’re That Good
At times we tend to like to “dance with the devil,” “push the envelope,” and “play with fire.” At some level we’re all dare-devils. There comes those moments, either frequent or infrequent when we become a bit bored with the everyday stuff of everyday life. And in those moments we want to shake it up and spice it up. There’s an utterly profound … [Read more...]
Bobbing and Weaving – The Dance of Justification
We’re not all too bad at bobbing and weaving. We’re pretty good at side-stepping and side-lining issues. We’re quite adept at cutting and spinning, doing a bit of fanciful dodging, as well as deftly running the obstacle course without getting so much as a scratch on us. We’ve learned to see things coming from a long ways away, and we’ve figured … [Read more...]
The Worst Slavery – Slavery to Ignorance
Slavery as an institution is pretty far removed from the minds of most of us residing here in 21st century America. Slavery sits back plenty far enough in the faded, yellowed and brittle pages of history to create a more than comfortable chasm between us and itself. We view that chasm of time and social development and modernism as broad enough … [Read more...]
The Perfect Storm – When Life Hits All At Once
Wikipedia states that a perfect storm “refers to the simultaneous occurrence of weather events which, taken individually, would be far less powerful than the storm resulting of their chance combination. Such occurrences are rare by their very nature, so that even a slight change in any one event contributing to the perfect storm would lessen its … [Read more...]
Am I Paying Attention? – Being Aware
Am I paying attention? As this thing called life moves ‘round about me, and I move ‘round about within it, am I paying attention to it all? Am I paying attention, or have I unwittingly confused a host of other behaviors and habits as paying attention? Am I paying attention, or have I adopted certain views or biases as ready templates that I slap … [Read more...]
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