Same Time Next Year
This holiday season we get together with family and loved ones to embrace and celebrate a Holy Season. Many of us tend to assume that the same people will come back year after year, until one year we look around and see that someone is missing. Each year ...
[Same Time Next Year continued...]Roots
If we look at ourselves as a group of individual seeds that spring forth from growth, like a plant or a tree, our lives can be understood with greater meaning. The tree that grows starts out as a delicate branch that over time chooses its direction to ...
[Roots continued...]Lessons Learned
As we progress through life, we accumulate experiences that we use to help us evaluate future decisions......all of the mountains and valleys that we have crossed to get to where we are now. Some prevail, some are engulfed in fear, some overcome, and ...
[Lessons Learned continued...]George
The world lost a very rare human being this week. Someone who worked hard, rose to fame, and while, at his peak, walked away to chart new courses. Yes, George Harrison continued to record music...it is rumored that he has stockpiled over four albums of ...
[George continued...]Time
The holidays are quickly approaching....many family and friends are expressing their concerns regarding the current state of the world, and there just doesn't seem to be enough time for the things that one needs to do daily.We get up each morning, cringe ...
[Time continued...]Celebrate the Season
The most important aspect to remember this holiday season, is that we are mere mortals. We cannot control everything and everyone.....but we do have a say over our own lives. It has been easy to take each year's festivities for granted...looking at them ...
[Celebrate the Season continued...]Uncharted Territory
The world has now entered into uncharted territory. Never before have we had to deal with the possibility of bio-terrorism on the scale that it presents itself now. Each morning the experts try to answer questions that, after awhile, leave them ...
[Uncharted Territory continued...]The Game
Each week I write a newsletter that goes out to 65 countries, to Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, etc. The past month the e-mails I have received are unbelievable. We may feel we are so different, yet when we peel back the layers, we are all the ...
[The Game continued...]Plain and Simple
Over the past few years many of us had begun to push the envelope on how we spent our time to find enjoyment. We got all the latest gadgets, traveled to exotic places, purchased the "must-have" luxury items. As some of these may still be what we desire, ...
[Plain and Simple continued...]Human
I've received quite a few e-mails over the past few weeks, since the attacks on New York and Washington, DC, each one with it's own unique perspective. They range from shock, fear, anger, depression, peace, hope, and love. This week I would like to send ...
[Human continued...]Common Enemy
As children, many of us played "war games." If we had brothers, we knelt in the sandbox with our plastic "army guys," and fought little wars that felt like huge battles at the time. For me, I would listen to my brother make gun noises as he pointed his ...
[Common Enemy continued...]The Table and Chairs
This past week has been extraordinary. Many of us feel like we are living headline to headline, and the stockmarket....what can I say?....has been in a nosedive, but, it will rise again. So what can be said for terrorism, hatred, lack of communication, ...
[The Table and Chairs continued...]Buy America
This week's attack on the United States was centered in two areas....the financial center of New York, and the military headquarters of the Pentagon, Washington, DC. These attacks were meant to cripple us financially, and damage our defenses. The ...
[Buy America continued...]Evaporation
This week a horrible attack was launched against the cities of New York and Washington DC, in the United States. We have now learned firsthand that airplanes can be used as guided missiles against buildings. I could not believe my eyes as I watched in ...
[Evaporation continued...]The Bistro
There is a wonderful place to visit when you have the time. A place where the Soul can be refreshed and wounds can be healed. Down a little alleyway is a small wooden door that when opened, can deliver the fuel for dreams....I call it "The Bistro."Once ...
[The Bistro continued...]Cynicism
Cynicism, suspicion, doubt and mistrust are some of the things that we juggle with week to week. Locked away in our treasure chest of life experiences are the testimonies of life that we've accumulated along the way. Love is the strongest emotion we have ...
[Cynicism continued...]Love Lights The Way
Changes can come about when you least expect it. New relationships, new jobs, new hobbies, and changing addresses. All this can be shocking, to say the least, but one thing always seems to pull us through....loved ones and friends. This week I moved to ...
[Love Lights The Way continued...]A New Chapter
This week is my last week in my current home. I have enjoyed my time here immensely......a log cabin in the woods has allowed me to regroup, reflect, heal, and move forward. I will never forget my time here, and feel blessed to have experienced the ...
[A New Chapter continued...]Riding the Range
Howdy Pardners! Each morning we wake up...we get ourselves together, check our horses, tighten our saddles, and head off into the landscape. Riding the range can be both enjoyable and treacherous at times, but as we discover, the better prepared we are ...
[Riding the Range continued...]Waves
This past week I received quite a few e-mails asking me about my thoughts on the current state of the economy, and where I think things are heading. I am not an analyst, but my opinion is optimistic.Over the past two years the economy has not only had to ...
[Waves continued...]Friendly Skies
This past week I made a trip out to Southern California. I would like to share with you some of the observations I made on my journey. As you may know, each flight is unique unto itself....but there are a few things many have in common. I arrived at the ...
[Friendly Skies continued...]The Program
This week's essay I would like to present as kind of like a Twilight Zone episode..... fantasy, or reality.....who knows? But it may be a way for us to look at life from a different angle. So let's address "The Program." Have you ever noticed that there ...
[The Program continued...]On The Fence
In life, some decisions are always easy. We look at something and we say yes, or no..... but the ones where we feel confusion, difficulty or a plain old blank stare, those are the ones that place us "on the fence."Relationships, jobs, where we live, ...
[On The Fence continued...]Reunions
Recently one of my friends mentioned to me that he attended his 25th High School Reunion. He was surprised how few showed up. Thankfully, two of his teachers were still at the school.....and they said, that as time goes on, more and more former ...
[Reunions continued...]New Beginnings
The past couple of months has been a time of change for me. I have made my music available through a new arrangement with MP3.com, I have started a new radio show called "Walk of Life," and after several years with AOL I have moved my e-mail ...
[New Beginnings continued...]
