Tag Archives: Joy

Try to find the joy in the moment

Posted on February 9, 2017 by ends and beginnings blog

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” –  Henry David Thoreau My oldest thought she was having a bad day. One of her company’s clients was unhappy and her boss told … Continue reading →

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My Wish Book list for you

Posted on December 20, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

Before there was Amazon, before there was Toys”R”Us, Ebay or Target there was Sears. Sometime around the first of November the Sears Wish Book would arrive in the mail and the eight year old me knew that Santa was close. The Sears … Continue reading →

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The Chicken Truck

Posted on October 27, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

This is one of the chicken trucks that travels past my neighborhood ten to twenty times a day to the processing plant. It is a flatbed tractor-trailer stacked deep and wide with chickens headed for the slaughterhouse and then to … Continue reading →

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Characters

Posted on June 20, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

My wife and I traveled up to a small mountain community Sunday to “celebrate” Father’s Day. It is the same community we rode our bicycles too on Saturday morning. The difference, the trip took us, one-way, two hours to pedal … Continue reading →

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Grandma’s Hands – Bill Withers

Posted on April 1, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

Grandma’s hands Clapped in church on Sunday morning Grandma’s hands Played a tambourine so well Grandma’s hands Used to issue out a warning She’d say, “Billy don’t you run so fast Might fall on a piece of glass “Might be … Continue reading →

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Living in a Gray Space

Posted on March 24, 2016 by ends and beginnings blog

How do you see the world? For many of us the most elementary description of how we as individuals view the world is by using the analogy of black, white or gray. Most people that I meet would simply subscribe … Continue reading →

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