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Every now and again a tune from when I was just a kiddo leaps into my head. This morning’s classic…”You’ve got to spread joy up to the maximum, bring gloom down to the minimum” by Johny Mercer (yes I had to look up who wrote the song)....

Doubt as a form of Grace

We tend to believe…that faith is unshakable. But the only way it can’t be rattled is when you’ve done the inquiry, yes, when you have doubted your own faith, your own beliefs. In saying that we still want to avoid any tests of a concept that involve...

Don’t stop believing…

A teacher once said to me, ‘do you have to see it to believe it, or do you have to believe it to see it?’ Great contemplation right. But then today, as I was reading about the importance of self efficacy, I couldn’t seem to get the tune, just that...

Missing you my friend

  A friend of mine and many others was handsome, smart, crafty, well, just an all around great guy. We lost him 3 years ago and no one will ever know why for sure. He required four different memorials in four different states as he touched so many lives. This...

Weathering the storm

It’s poring down rain and it seems the storm isn’t going to be all that bad, or it had potential of being pretty serious. Regardless, as the weather rolls through, the ground is going to be saturated, puddles in areas and a good chance of flooding. If we...