This is Memorial Day weekend 2012. On Friday I watched the evening traffic reports on television. Backups of traffic heading to the beaches delighted me because I wasn’t in one of those cars. Many were piled high with bicycles, surfboards and other accoutrements required for a summer of sand, sea, surf, and sunburn. I could [...]
Archive for the ‘Giving thanks’ Category
God Bless America
Posted in America, Giving thanks, My Beloved Country, Opinions, War on May 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Looking Back
Posted in Giving thanks, Life, Opinions, Personal, Volunteerism on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Do you remember Nat ‘King’ Cole’s hit song, Looking Back Over My Life? For no particular reason, I was thinking about that song the other day. Well, on second thought, maybe there was a particular reason. You see, it’s been said that when you’re in the final stages of leaving this earth you do look [...]
So…What happened?
Posted in Congress, Education, Giving thanks, Opinions, Personal, President Obama on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“What happened the day you were born?” It’s one of those ‘suggested topics’ that WordPress throws your way whenever you put a new post on ye olde blog. I could, of course, make it short and sweet by saying, “What? You don’t believe that my birth was significant enough?” However, in the interest of good [...]
Dying isn’t the problem
Posted in Death, Family, Gardening, Giving thanks, Growing old, Human behavior, Laziness, Life, Love, Opinions, People, Personal, Senior citizen, Stupidity, writing on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There are several problems with aging aside from the most obvious. You don’t know what the most obvious is? No, the most obvious is not death, believe it or not. Hell, we’re all going to die. That’s one of those things that you don’t even consider in the problem category…just a fact of life. The [...]
On becoming part of a whole
Posted in Accountability, Altruisim, America, Beauty, Crime, Diversity, Family, Giving thanks, Goal setting, God, History, Holidays, Honor, Human behavior, Integrity, Law & Justice, Life, Love, My Beloved Country, Opinions, People, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Racism, Religion, Senior citizen, Stupidity, Team building, Terrorism, Trust, Values, Vegetables on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, good, I have my own civil rights group. I never realized that. I think I’ll ask them to picket my doctor’s office. Ya see, at six-one, two-fifty, he calls me really obese. Now when I look at myself in a full-length mirror (ego does that to ya, ya know), I don’t think I compare [...]
New vs. Olde
Posted in Beauty, Gardening, Giving thanks, Growing season, Human behavior, Life, Love, Opinions, People, Personal, Senior citizen, Stupidity, Vegetables, Weather on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New England is a remarkable place. Of course, I say that based on extremely limited travel experience. Never having been to “old” England, I guess I don’t really have a basis for comparison. I do know one thing: In New England, there is a community called Islington. It is a part of a Town called [...]
The Gardener
Posted in Altruisim, America, Beauty, Flowers, Gardening, Giving thanks, Human behavior, Love, Opinions, People, Personal, Trust, Values, Vegetables on September 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
She came from out of the west…the gardener. She came East to take care of an old man; no reason; just came East…the gardener “Your backyard is a mess,” she told him, but he didn’t seem to mind, even when she told him that she was…the gardener. She was right, of course. The backyard hadn’t [...]
Time to take stock
Posted in Giving thanks, History, Life, Nostalgia, Opinions, Personal on January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As the cold wind blows outside the bedroom at about 3:30 this morning, I begin to think of the things for which I’m particularly thankful. I don’t like the cold weather. I’ve lived in New England all of my life and I-just-don’t-like-it! Was in Quebec one year and took an afternoon off to visit the [...]
Giving out the “Snowies”
Posted in Giving thanks, Human behavior, Personal on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We use to enjoy paraphrasing Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem, “If.” It’s too long to cite here; however, you may remember the opening stanza, which goes, “If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but [...]
Just thinking about Santa
Posted in Family, Giving thanks, Opinions, Personal, Philosophy on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just had a really horrible thought: What if, now take this a word at a time, ‘cause it’s some pretty heavy stuff I’m laying down here, but what if…there really is no Santa Claus? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute; I’m not saying that there isn’t. In fact, I know that there [...]
