Aug
25
2022
My Dad valued people from all walks of life. He thanked and honored those many would overlook. He believed in leaving places better than when you found them. He honored janitors and housekeeping staff. He would thank each person...
Aug
24
2022
If you fly to Oklahoma City, you will see a famous quote by Will Rogers: "Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
Dad was a phenomenal teacher of good judgment for Jay and...
Aug
23
2022
Shann is a forgiveness researcher. I was listening to a lecture in which he enumerated the physical benefits of forgiveness— a more robust immune system, lower heart disease, lower cancer, lower autoimmune diseases, and lower anxiety, to name a...
Aug
22
2022
When my Dad was ill during the last weeks of his life, he mostly lay on his back. His cancer treatment medication caused him to gain weight rapidly through the 12-plus years he was on it. It slowed his...
Aug
19
2022
When I feel the deep ache of loss and start feeling sad about Dad being gone, I go back to the fundamentals. I go back to the basics; Dad taught: solitude and gratitude. I discipline myself to get alone...
Aug
18
2022
Contentment has been a hard-fought lesson for me and also for Dad. He wrestled with finding contentment even in illness. I have been on a long journey as a student of contentment. Part of this journey happened years ago...
Aug
17
2022
I met “Margo” at camp. She loved hoops and baggy shorts and had a cutting-edge fashion style. She found her mother dead when she was a very young child. Her father remarried a negligent woman who never cared for...
Aug
16
2022
My grandmother grew up in a severely austere home. Her mother did not believe in affection and ruled her family with a no-nonsense mentality. She was one of seven siblings, all male except for a younger sickly sister. Her...
Aug
15
2022
One of the helpful learning lessons Dad and I received was the conscious decision to move out of the external illusion.
Consider a man named Richard Smith. His first family knew and called him Dick Smith. After fifteen years of...
Aug
12
2022
One February, we lost our cat, Crystal. She never came home. I was devastated. I held to the fantasy she would be found at a pet shelter. I was grieving but not attending to my sorrow. I picked up...
