Gratitude and Giving Thanks…
This morning I am filled with indescribable feelings of gratitude and thanksgiving. This is a landmark like none other. As we approach the end of November our thoughts are turned to the holidays and hopefully to others. To gratitude and giving thanks, at times this is hard amid the noise of the commercial holiday hype. But today that hype is faraway, psychologically and literally.
Read MoreRunning Away
Here I am again at 35,000 feet but I am not sure if I am feeling philosophical or melancholy. Time no longer seems to feel linear it seems to ebb and flow like the tide. At times compressed and accelerated, speeding by faster than I can comprehend. Then at others it is stretched and elongated crawling painfully slow, minutes feeling like hours. I have a strange sense of disorientation like watching the needle on a compass swinging wildly from North to West then East and so on. This week I have been traveling and strangely I feel the most comfortable in the places that are completely unfamiliar. The familiar places are uncomfortable and surreal, like a waking dream. With all the current turmoil I feel disconnected...
Read MoreWhat a Difference a Day Makes
Tonight I decided to tell my family about my new blog. I may not care what strangers think but its hard to escape the opinions and judgment of family. They were curious and we read the initial post Joining the Blogosphere. We then read through my second post Lately it occurs to me: What a long, strange trip it’s been… This reading illustrated exactly how quickly and unexpectedly life can change. When I wrote the “Lately it occurs to me” post following my daughter’s graduation I saw ahead years of calm and adventure that my wife and I had sacrificed when be chose to begin a family in our early twenties. For the past 21 years we have looked forward to this “second youth.” We felt like we had a good plan. When...
Read MoreLately it occurs to me: What a long, strange trip it’s been…
I have always liked this line by Robert Hunter not because I am a Dead Head but because it is so often the case in life. We reach a point in time when we pause an look back at what may have seemed common place or uneventful and realize that it was filled with twists and turns of both the expected and the unexpected. It seems that I have reach just such a point in my life. With the graduation of my youngest child from High School and as she heads off to college like her brother before her we now have an empty nest (except for Orion our Labrador, picture Marley age 9). It is hard to believe how fast we have gone from new parents to empty nest. It has been 21 years filled with the usual ups and downs of parenting and child rearing. Both of...
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One Man’s Story Trailer
The last 6 months of a two year journey to receive a liver transplant. Told in one minute of pictures and music.
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