Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
When asking who means the most to us, we often find it is those who, instead of giving advice, choose rather to share our pain. The friend who is silent in a moment of despair, who stays with us in an hour of grief & bereavement, who faces with us the reality of our powerlessness,…
“Taking a break will allow a breakthrough to happen.” – Kazuaki Tanahashi Aging so fast, almost don’t have time to take notes. A dear older buddy has pancreatic cancer and it is my job to cheer him up. Meanwhile, my left knee exploded for the second time this summer just in time for my Physical…
Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom. – Jack Lalanne “…And after a long time the boy came back again. “I am sorry, Boy,” said the tree, “but I have nothing left to give you- My apples are gone.” “My teeth are too weak for apples,” said the boy….
”You can’t plan for the unforeseen. God doesn’t follow the linear directions of computer models. And these are powerful storms that don’t behave in any kind of way that you can say with certainty where they’re going to go.” – Jeb Bush, FL GOV. 2004 Friday The Thirteenth. 2004. It was scary. Hurricane Charley was the…
“The role of the artist is that of the soldier of the revolution.” – Nadya Tolokonnikova DeSantis Vetoes All Arts Grants in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out $32 million in grants approved by state lawmakers. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/arts/ron-desantis-veto-arts-funding-florida.html Saw that headline and I thought, ‘Hold it! Didn’t you protest under that naked…
Albert Schweitzer said, “One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.” So happy I was there for a minute, started to tell you the tale of another obstacle overcome, but before I could celebrate… How We Got Here Often feel like a hamster on a spinning wheel, round…
Another amazing tale you won’t believe, where your superannuated reporter drives through THE STORM FROM HELL, keeps pace with three 2:20ish marathoners and a three-time Conference Mile Champion and meets a future marathon star and gets a medicinal chocolate milk shake. There was also a big brown dog. WEDNESDAY, I walked Ragnar, cleaned up and…
Good Friday is the mirror held up by Jesus so that we can see ourselves in all our stark reality, and then it turns us to that cross and to his eyes and we hear these words, Father forgive them for they know not what they do. That’s us! – Robert G. Trache Happy Good Friday!…
We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in…
When you’re happy, you enjoy the music but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics. – Frank Ocean Hank didn’t kill himself. Depression killed my grandson. Hank was eighteen. 18. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among people ages 15-24. Hank loved math, it made sense to him. Me, not so much. But 19% seems…