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L.I.G. or Lig
90. L.I.G or Lig Sometimes phrases help me out. Sometimes they are able to interrupt something that I really don’t want to be doing. And this is one I’m newly adopting. It’s for those times when I am going on and on about something…
Grace
89. Grace It has taken a long time but these are some of my thoughts about “grace.” In some ways I think we are too human to really understand grace; and we are too judgmental to “do” grace. When we are angry with someone,…
God Promises To Be Enough
88. God Promises To Be Enough I wrote this song as a part of a Vacation Church School curriculum. Later I discovered that two lines in particular spoke to me personally. One is: God is with you each day. So many times I can…
Write the Stories Down
87. Write the Stories Down I have written down pieces and parts of my life almost all of my eighty years. I think there are many benefits for doing this and it’s one of the reasons that I started a writing group in the…
Not Giving In to the Stereotype
86. Not Giving In to the Stereotype On July 15th, I mentioned my puppet Josa (a brown sea otter) that I used in the nursing home and in clowning. She has taught me some lessons in being adventurous. One day I had used her…
We Are Many – We Are One
85. We Are Many – We Are One This is the latest song I have written. It seems appropriate for September 11th to me because in this decade since the tragedy happened we have grown in divisiveness, become involved in two wars, and moved…
Stay in the Present
84. Stay in the Present Have you ever seen that magnet that says: Yesterday is the past. Tomorrow is the future. Today is a gift— That’s why it’s called the present. I confess I can’t do it all the time—I stew over yesterdays, and…
Just Plain Oatmeal
83. Just Plain Oatmeal Two things recently intersected on vacation in Ocean City, New Jersey, The first thing was that I finished the book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryon Mealer. In it I had read of the near…
Coma and Other Conditions – Keep Talking
82. Coma and Other Conditions—Keep Talking In my years as a music therapist, I worked a number of times with persons in coma; or persons with brain conditions where they had little response; or with persons who appeared to be dying. Those experiences have…
Control
81. Control I wrote a song in 1976 that was supposed to be a reminder to me about control and it has been just that kind of reminder. It tells me that oftentimes control is an illusion anyway. It tells me that I can…
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