Have you ever set out on a journey without having a destination in mind? I may not have done so on a road trip, but sometimes, especially on walks around my neighborhood or neighborhoods wherever and whenever I am visiting a new place, I often just go wherever my feet take me. Sometimes, we don’t […]
Category: Life in General
Stuff I’ve written about life in general.
Mistakes
It’s usually something simple, like forgetting to clock out one night at your place of employment or thinking you’ve replied to an email and text when you did so only in your head. It could be something major, like not test-running a project one last time before giving it the green light or sending a […]
Let the divisions fall
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, once paraphrased a verse that shows up in three different Gospels when he spoke at the Illinois Republican State Convention, in Springfield, Illinois on the 16th of June, 1858: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” It was a quote Jesus gave, according to Matthew […]
A tragedy anywhere….
As you probably have already seen, debris from the Titan submarine has been found and all five men aboard the tourist vessel have been declared dead, killed in a likely implosion. Two were billionaire tourists who were considered adventurers. One was the nineteen-year-old son of one of those tourists who was terrified to take the […]
Let It Go
Anger can be used as a powerful tool. When it is justified, it can be used to move mountains, to change atrocities, to right wrongs. But far too often, we hang on to things mentally and physically that fester. We dwell on past wrongs that will never be made right. We harbor resentment for things […]
Walk a mile
I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking about life, the universe, and everything lately. And since this is my forty-second year and that number is the answer to the question nobody knows, I’m in a bit of a quandary. Douglas Adams’ references always make me giggle. And fair warning, this blog post will be […]
Didn’t go as planned
One of my favorite quotes about life is something I’ve posted a few times before. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ~John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy” I say that to myself every time things don’t go as planned. For instance, yesterday (or Friday, if you are reading this blog later […]
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Arms
It’s Pride month. Now, I don’t jump on the bandwagon of acceptance and mark everything I do up in rainbow flags and jump up and down. Nor do I publicly shame anyone who is anywhere on the alphabet that makes up the symbolic nature of Pride like some do. Neither one of those stances work […]
Celebrations
Let me start this blog by saying it is neither my birthday nor the other half and mine’s anniversary yet. But I have been thinking about celebrations lately, especially after listening to a dear friend give a sermon on birthdays, since last Sunday was Pentecost, which traditionally is the birthday of the Christian church. And […]
Rejoice with those who rejoice
Let me tell you a little story. I once celebrated an achievement of someone. I shared it with my circle of friends happily, making sure a wider circle got to hear about it. I was told by that someone that I had no achievements of my own, thus I had to make myself look better […]
K. S. Wood Writes 