In the scramble to buy Thanksgiving meal groceries, Christmas gifts, holiday decorations and other such supplies, take a moment to be still and meditate on life – in all its complicated forms and expressions… …the good and bad, difficult and easy, stress-inducing and carefree-giving, annoying and pleasing… You get the point – it’s all life.… Read More A Moment to Meditate: On Giving Thanks
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And… Read More A Moment to Meditate: Poetry About Decision-Making
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is observed each year on September 17th to commemorate the signing of the Constitution of the United States on September 17, 1787 and to “recognize all who, by coming of age or naturalization, have become citizens” of this country. In addition, September 17-23 is also recognized as Constitution Week. The… Read More A Moment to Meditate: On American Citizenship
Though this is a “bonus” DJ Lady Luck post for the month, I take this moment to celebrate my father – who, to me, is the epitome of resilience and what it means to be resilient. In honor of him, I choose to use this “musical moment” for one of life’s little surprises – birthdays!… Read More Life’s Surprises: Celebrating a Father’s Lifetime of Resilience
One Memorial Weekend about 10 years ago, I was in Charleston, South Carolina supporting a group of fellow alumni in their effort to host a networking social at a restaurant downtown. Not really there on vacation but not officially there for work, my thoughts were everywhere but on the holiday itself. The alumnus who volunteered… Read More In Memory of… Leadership Through Sacrifice
Good Sunday, everyone! Today’s post is a meditation on mothers/mother-like figures and their love, sacrifices, hopes, and continual support for those children/child-like figures in their lives. *** As I’ve gotten older, I’ve grown to see my mother less as a parent and more as a person. Not that I no longer respect her… Read More A Moment to Meditate: On a Mother’s Love, Sacrifices, Hopes, and Continual Support
Have a blessed Easter Sunday and happy early Earth Day!
Invictus by William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but… Read More A Moment to Meditate: Poetry for Encouragement
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