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Oct 6, 2025

Judy and I are new friends with like histories which drew us quickly together. She is a delight. When she shared these writings I asked if I could post a few, she agreed.

Oct 6, 2025

Sep 22, 2025

Vanity, Vanity, it is all Vanity! It sure seems to be

Sep 22, 2025

The rhetoric of name calling, disparaging other individuals for whatever reason is ungodly. For sure it isn’t easy to stay silent when I am being attacked for whatever reason. I want to defend myself. But I’ve had enough experiences to know that to argue with the unfounded attacks that come is a waste of breath. T

Sep 22, 2025

Jul 24, 2025

Labor Day Weekend 2025, The Anniversary of our Arrival in Tennessee 1975

Jul 24, 2025

If you catch me a bit overcome it may be that someone just caught eye and their story was flashing momentarily in my mind—grateful for all that transpired for them. I rarely go anywhere in town that I don’t bump into someone who has been through the front doors…

Jul 24, 2025

Jul 23, 2025

Beliefs Change

Jul 23, 2025

At 65 (now 76), I think this 'truth' is more a ‘being’, it is a living ‘thing’, an alive truth. It is unlike any that I'd previously been taught about earlier in my life. To me, this 'truth' is equivalent to God but not the grandfatherly, sit on the throne version of God.

Jul 23, 2025

Mar 21, 2025

Some asked how…

Mar 21, 2025

It’s true that the dark is not always ‘friendly’ but there are treasures in the night—once you get your night vision. One saint asks “what is more helpful to wisdom than the night?”

Mar 21, 2025

Feb 22, 2025

Ding Dong the Witch is dead—but maybe we’re still up in the Balloon for Now

Feb 22, 2025

At their first encounter with super Wizard they’re thrown a curve and sent back out to get the broom of yet another witch—the land of OZ has got it’s dark side. So the foursome go trudging off to get the broom. But Dorothy, in those suspicious red shoes, the light begins to dawn on her.

Feb 22, 2025

Feb 20, 2025

Variations of ‘Christian’ Thought with Variations of my Own

Feb 20, 2025

The circumstance surrounding this deeper experience often are finding one’s self at the end of your rope—with no knot; having run out of solutions, or being in the pits of despair and doubt ready to toss in the towel. Even then it is not one size fits all. Thinking it will happen the same for me as it did for ‘him’ or ‘her’ is a dead end.

Feb 20, 2025

Feb 16, 2025

Valentine’s Day 2025

Feb 16, 2025

I think—wonder if, the draw to each other is we are fascinated with someone who sees stuff so differently. We experience life from contrasting angles and it interests the other. Glenn is near ninety and lost his wife a number of years ago.

Feb 16, 2025

Sep 6, 2024

The KID is Still Here

Sep 6, 2024

My attitude as a counselor myself about inner child theories had been skeptical at least if not just thinking it was bunk. My therapists faced an uphill battle getting me to recognize this kid.

Sep 6, 2024

Aug 10, 2024

Evacuees: Box Checked Now

Aug 10, 2024

We kept hearing ‘war stories' from other evacuees. We heard only bits and pieces of what was happening in Jasper. Two of the fires had come together, picked up speed and hit town Wednesday afternoon. The fire entered the west side of town—the same route we exited. (Now we know a third of the buildings in town were destroyed).

Aug 10, 2024