Today marks 45 years since my mother passed away after a fight with liver cancer. I had just graduated from high school a few months earlier. I’m thankful for the time I had with her. I am also thankful that, if she had to go, it was through a process that gave us some time […]
Tag: unity
Well, I completed my fourth chemotherapy treatment today–only two more to go. Now, on to Lightward Bound news, while I still feel good enough to give time and energy to writing this. Because of my current medical journey, I have decided to limit my LWB work to four main goals for the year. Back in […]
It has been almost a year since I posted a new blog post, so it is time. I have spent much of the past several months (when I had time available) working on finding people to take on roles within Lightward Bound. The process has been taking much more time than I had hoped. That […]
Each of us lives in a community. Few people can truly claim they are not part of any community. We are part of a neighborhood or city community. Or maybe we’re part of a rural community. We may be part of a religious community (e.g congregation). Most of us are part of a school community, […]
Human relationships are important because they affect us all. We are all part of relationships with other people. These relationships can lift us up and make us feel good, which brings light into our lives. Sometimes relationships can also drag us down and hurt us. Since we all want to feel good, we should do […]
We live in the UNITED States of America. But that word, “united,” seems to be struggling lately in our country. Perhaps we can say there is a unity recession more than an economic recession. This is a great nation, but we have some room for improvement. We could do more to share the light of […]
For some time now, I have felt that one of our biggest needs in the United States is unity. Our economic prosperity is often where we point and say things need to improve or we pick out some particular social difficulty and say it needs to improve. But I believe that if we as a […]
Is there any doubt? America has changed since its founding. It has changed even since the days of our grandparents. Many long to return to the “good ole days” that some might describe as a time “when people worked hard on their farms to produce their food and didn’t expect the government to provide it.” […]
This has been a longer Independence Day celebration than usual. In our community here in Tooele, Utah, the city started events on Saturday, the third. Then on Sunday, the fourth, many people celebrated with personal fireworks. And today Monday, the fifth, is “Independence Day, Observed,” a federal holiday that releases many people from their work […]
In 2016, Mr. Donald Trump ran for president based on the campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” During his 2020 campaign, he used the similar slogan, “Keep America Great.” Certainly, I would expect that any American would want our nation to be great, but slogans, campaigns, and even presidents are not what makes America great. […]