My New Favorite Song…

While I was at the local cafe’ for breakfast yesterday morning, I heard a somewhat familiar song playing on the intercom. I use the Shazam app on my phone to identify its title and artist and then proceeded to listen to it. The song and its lyrics really struck a chord with me. I sharedContinue reading “My New Favorite Song…”

Another Daily Reading: Touchstones

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed. But it is hidden deep, which is what makes life a problem.Huston Smith How does a man lose touch with his strength, his wisdom, his joy? Perhaps it is in the nature ofContinue reading “Another Daily Reading: Touchstones”

Daily Readings….

Meditation for the DayBe calm, be true, be quiet. Do not get emotionally upset by anything that happens around you. Feel a deep, inner security in the goodness and purpose in the universe. Be true to your highest ideals. Do not let yourself slip back into the old ways of reacting. Stick to your spiritualContinue reading “Daily Readings….”

There Comes a Time….

For forty-three years, I have been a classroom teacher in some sort or fashion. I spent twenty-nine years as a full-time teacher, most of which were in middle school classrooms. For the past fourteen years, since my retirement in 2010, I’ve been substitute teaching and filling in for teachers on an interim basis. There haveContinue reading “There Comes a Time….”

A Look at the Headlines for Today…

Michigan GOP legislator posted about ‘illegal invaders’ at Detroit airport. It was Gonzaga’s March Madness team. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/28/politics/fact-check-matt-maddock-invaders-gonzaga-madness-detroit/index.html Louis Gossett Jr., Oscar-winning star of ‘An Officer and a Gentleman,’ dead at 87 https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/29/entertainment/louis-gossett-jr-death/index.html CDC alerts doctors to watch for rare, serious bacterial infection appearing with unusual symptoms https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/28/health/cdc-alert-bacterial-infection/index.html