Friday Thoughts-A World in Need of Healing
This Friday morning, as I look at the world around me, I see individuals, families, communities, countries, and an entire EARTH in need...
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Anne Frank...Perspectives for us ALL Still Today
I came across the story of Anne Frank recently, as told by the group Beaches of Normandy Tours. It was told a little differently, with...
A Brave & Startling Truth / Maya Angelou
Inspired by the image Earth seen for the first time from the outer reach of the Solar System - Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot - Maya Angelou...
Pink - In Her Own Words - "Family Portrait"
We must listen to the Artists; to those that communicate outside the boxes of tradition. Artists courageously give voice to the margins...
Instructions on Not Giving Up
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving...
Bantams & Chess - Here's the Story...
I don’t know how chickens or kids determine who is to be picked on and isolated from their society. Looking back, I believe that chess and
Meet Pumpernickel - My Best Friend
When I was in middle school my folks moved to the country. One day, they bought home three barnyard (mutts or mixed breed) Bantam chicks,...
Doorways
Your life is an open doorway where God enters the world. what you say and do, what you notice, what you hold and set down, each is a...
If I Knew Then…
If I knew then what I know now I would have walked more And ate less If I knew then what I know now I would have given my kids more time...
“The World is Mine”
Today upon a bus, I saw a lovely maid with golden hair; I envied her—she seemed so gay, and how, I wished I were so fair; When suddenly...
A Beautiful Reflection on LIFE
“If Tomorrow Starts Without Me”….A reminder that the present moment is all that really IS. If Tomorrow Starts Without Me If tomorrow...
Quotations on the Time Before Dying
“It is too bad that dying is the last thing we do, because it could teach us so much about living.” – Robert M. Herhold “For my part, I...
Mule Days
Mule Days Go visit, highly recommended and on my bucket list. May 25-30 2021 Bishop CA https://muledays.org/events/schedule/ I’m Mule...
Frogs
December 3, 2013 / Boyd & Nicholas Kiss the Frog “You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your handsome prince.” I have a friend...
Use Snopes
Use Snopes September 24, 2013 / Boyd & Nicholas My wife and I have a number of relatives, friends and colleagues that are from the far...
Prayers
August 6, 2013 / Boyd & Nicholas This past February (2013) I learned that I had kidney cancer. As a result I did something I had never...
I miss wine coolers
May 28, 2013 / Boyd & Nicholas California Cooler in 1981 invented the wine cooler. Two dudes mixing the wine and fruit juices in a garage...
Old Cities, Old Ladies
August 15, 2013 / Boyd & Nicholas In 1990 I visited a client in Toledo. It seemed only United flew to Toledo so lacking competition they...
A Love Story
September 10, 2013 / Boyd & Nicholas Recently I watched Doctor Zhivago, the 1965 big hit, for the first time. Zhivago is a poet and a...
Spirit in the Sky
For Cynthia Ann Boyd and her daughter Lorelei Lea (2/7/2008-9/27/2008) When I die and they lay me to rest Gonna go to the place that’s...