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Ask For What You Want Today
20. Ask for What You Want Today In one of my early sessions of participating in group therapy, I started to write songs once I got home. One of my early songs was Ask For What You Want Today. It seems like something obvious…
New Way to Start the Day
19. New Way to Start the Day I was visiting my daughter with her five young children. I had slept on the livingroom couch and two children were already doing school work at the diningroom table when I woke up. The two-year-old was up…
Walter Wink’s Chant
18. Walter Wink’s Chant Years ago I took a one-week course at Union Theological School with Walter Wink and June Keener-Wink. At one point in the course Walter asked us to sit on the floor and get as comfortable as we could. He taught…
The Wind Is Blowing
17. The Wind is blowing Summer camp and Debbie was the counselor for the four-year-olds. There was a line for the bathroom and suddenly the little four-year-old boy who would be next started to cry loudly. Debbie came over quickly and said, “Tony whatever…
Let the negative stories go
16. Let the negative stories go Some of these learnings are not from years and years ago—they are things I’m working on in present time. I was at a lunch just a month or so ago and was aware that I was telling a…
It’s good to be where you know where you are
15. It’s good to be where you know where you are In 1972 our family took a cross-country camping trip. Starting from Pomona, NY, we went nine thousand miles as far west as Glacier Park and Yellowstone Park, camped at an Indian Reservation in…
Pull over and say a prayer
14. Pull over and say a prayer I learned this from one of my daughters, whose husband was a firefighter until his early retirement. She has five young children (and three older ones) and when they hear a siren, they pull over and say…
I Learn From Juggling
On June 19, 2012 I was 79 years old, and starting to live my 80th year. I decided to write down Things I Have Learned So Far: 13. I learn from juggling in 1979 I went to the national Clown, Mime, Puppet and Dance…
Watch for the Stories
On June 19, 2012 I was 79 years old, and starting to live my 80th year. I decided to write down Things I Have Learned So Far: 12. Watch for the stories I sat on the New York subway one time in the 80’s…
You Never Know Who’s Watching
On June 19, 2012 I was 79 years old, and starting to live my 80th year. I decided to write down Things I Have Learned So Far: 11. You Never Know Who’s Watching Or who you’re influencing in some way. And sometimes you know….
New Release!!
Daybook of Personal Faith
Mama and Me
