If you have lived any kind of life at all you have made mistakes. It comes with the human territory; I think it probably comes with any thinking animal’s territory. Those mistakes may be small or they may be large and overshadowing. You may be ridiculed because of them or they may be severe enough
Happy Monday! Low seventies here in New York. That feels good after the winter we have had. Even, so I know summer is coming, even my cat reminds me; he is losing hair in that thick coat of his to cope with that heat. Here we regularly have below zero weather in the winter, and
It’s a rainy day here in New York. If someone out there has any idea where our spring got off to please drag it back here. We are sick of snow, cold and rain. Tonight’s forecast is freezing rain and snow. It’s almost the middle of April. I shouldn’t really complain. When I was a
Endorphins are designed to make you feel good. It is your bodies own little reward for doing well. It can help your mental attitude, change your physiology and help you to start to look at things differently. I have done this myself and it makes a huge difference in the first few weeks. It doesn’t
I have found that the best way to begin to put control back into the things you do is to just do it. I know that sounds like I am making a joke of it, making it sound easy to do, but I am not. What I am saying is that it is often our
It’s been an interesting week. We have run the gamut of weather here in the last 24 hours, rain, heat, thunder and lightening and high damaging winds. Seems like it might rain now. Maybe. I spent today painting, I will spend tomorrow doing the same. Interior painting, it all has to get done eventually. When
No, this is not a plug for Game of Thrones. I took some time this week to finish the antenna system I started in the spring. Up above was my first en devour from last year that lasted us, and worked well enough to get rid us of most of our cable bill, just killing
During the war years in the early 20th century, Joseph Short, a wealthy clothing mill owner, began a new division producing trousers for the United States Military. At the same time his own business was reduced by half, due to a cotton blight and rations having been cut even further as cotton was appropriated by
Understand this was a process. There was no flash of light and then I was absolved of all wrong doing. I was only taking that first step. I was still a criminal, still hated and still a liar in many respects. No one began to love me because of that, many people even seemed to
The song “Lightning Crashes” was originally written about the circle of life. Verses one, two, and three all describe three unrelated experiences of life and death. The sequence is life-death-life… The death in verse two appears to take place in the same hospital “down the hall” from the baby born in verse one. What the