I’ve written about this before I think, my particular belief about volunteering and fellowship. Time to have another go. Like many things, we enjoy them more when we do them with others. I think volunteering fits into this category. And I think therein is the core value of service clubs, the “getting together” to do …
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Relative Struggle
It’s Day Two of the kitchen sink quandary at my house. Intended to replace a twenty year-old faucet that was corroded with mineral deposits and had fallen into disrepair. Took a while to get things disconnected, hooked up the new gear, and, Leaks. Tried a few minor solutions. Still leaks. So I’m out of a …
Example: Good Dad, Good Human
I know this guy, met him more than 10 years back, but less than 20. He was a sales guy, then started his own contractor business remodeling houses. Father of three like me, two girls and a boy. He’s a gregarious guy, salt of the Earth human. I don’t get to see him much, but …
Thanksgiving
Celebrated on many countries in one form or another, Here in America it’s about Turkey and other foods indigenous to North America; It’s also about shopping for some, early “deals”, for Black Friday, It’s about getting loved ones together for food and football and maybe watching a parade, maybe throwing a football around too. I’m …
Lions Work
I belong to a local Lions club. We’re a service group, aligned with more than a million other members in 46,000 other Lions clubs around the world. We exist to serve others, to help them out, those in need. Like this weekend. Our club’s 42nd annual Thanksgiving Food Drive to help about 220 families — …
Longing Languish
Toss up, how goes in the small hours. Longing, languish, which one will win, come out ahead? Wishing, praying for a good night’s rest, Becomes a test of skill, and will, to calm and control, Did I sleep? Yea, sometimes hard to know. Intentional breathing, counting, repeated, seeming, To be the way and find the …
Speed Post:: All Saints (Hallows) Day
Remember the saints on this day, remember the lessons they’ve left us, Remember that saints are sinners who just kept trying, Trying to do right by others, trying to do right by God somehow, Somehow finding the strength and perseverance to keep trying, to the end, Just that, and then hallowed, in the end, Amen …
Weathering Dread
As I scribble this down, I find myself in the middle, the eye of a micro-emotional storm, swirling about as another day dawns. So strange how these come on. Not sure why, how it always comes about this way, lately most every day from slumber zero to sixty, a couple blinks, Don’t think too much, …
Early Morning Contrarian
Sometimes I go against the grain; sometimes I choose to buck conventual wisdom. Preferring darkness in the morning is a perfect example. I know the conventional wisdom says, “…to get going in the morning, turn on the lights to help your body and mind wake up, to engage the day; if you don’t follow this …
Full Flight
Timestamp: 1:41am. Mind unleashed, from the darkness to full flight in a moment. Like a bat of hell, as they say. Intent on a good night’s rest, then from slumber to thoughts racing in an instant. Full effort to restrain, slapped away repeatedly until released, thoughts in full flight, wings flapping like mad, unrelenting. Away …
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