Tag: Music
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Stormy Monday In October
October is my favorite month of the year. I love the changes in colors and the cooler air. I feel more alive. But with that fresh picked joy comes some intense emotion and anxiety. It’s the same every year. I feel greater joy and greater anti-joy at the same time. There is a powerful connection…
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The Checklist
#drivingawaydepression Sully!! What an awesome pilot whose actions saved the lives of everyone on US Airways flight 1549 when they struck multiple geese and had to land in the Hudson river. It has since been called the Miracle on the Hudson. Miracle? Maybe. Or just incredibly well trained and experienced pilots. A pilot is trained…
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#TBT July 7, 2022: Lean On Me
We are all connected. We are all human. We are all imperfect. We all need love. We all need purpose. And, regardless what one might think, we all need each other. That is who we are. That is what God intended when he/she made us. Here we are in 2022. Doesn’t it seem like we…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: Sisyphus
“We like to think we are rational beings who occasionally have an emotion and flick it away,” and carry on being rational. But rather, she says: “We are emotional, feeling beings; who, on rare occasions, think.”Brené Brown Let me start with a small introduction on Sisyphus. “Sisyphus was a cruel Greek king who was punished…
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Heart Of Gold
On this often difficult and sometimes painful journey of life, we all find ourselves searching for a heart of gold. I think what those lyrics mean for me is an internal quest. Perhaps that is what Young meant. Of my attempts and my own failings, I am constantly looking for that heart of gold within…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: The Longest Trip Part 1 of 2
I wrote this post below on March 4, 2019, not long after I had a heart attack and received 2 stents. I got a third a few months later. Now, as I write this update to the story, my father is in the hospital in Carson City. He and his wife live in Reno, but…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: The Importance Of Now
Hi welcome to Chic-fil-A. Can I have a name for the order? The sun is setting here in Arlington, TX. A sunny but chilly day has melted away most of the ice and snow from our biggest winter event of the season. That’s just another weekday for northerners. Our landscape has lost the bright white…
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All My Empty Spaces Part 4: Joy
Joy. Joy, joy, joy, joy… Slippery little devil. It has taken some time to write this one. Joy keeps getting away. Last year on the 6th of January, I sat down on the couch in front of the TV. Joy slipped under the couch and was gone for months. It showed up again later, playing…
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All My Empty Spaces Part 3: Peace
Personal peace. It was just after midnight when Ricardo brought the snacks consisting graham crackers, peanut butter, diet shasta, and a plastic sealed turkey and cheese on white (made by Goodyear). It was remarkably delicious, given it was the first thing I had to eat since breakfast; which comprised of powedered eggs, 1 slice of…
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All My Empty Spaces Part 2: Hope
Have you noticed lately that noone is ever wrong anymore? People just never make mistakes and their opinion is always the correct one. I know this phenomenon has been around for a long time. Ego, narcissism, misplaced anger. We have all become so fucking smart that we can never be wrong about anything, especially when…
