Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: What Sends Us to Our Knees?
“We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey, waved goodbye, and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.'”
–President Ronald Reagan’s Challenger eulogy (January 28, 1986)
Seminal moments. We’ve all experienced them, the number depending on how long we’ve been alive. The attack on Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, V-J Day, President Kennedy’s assassination, the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, the September 11 attacks. Moments when […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What Resolutions?
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity, and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
–Edith Lovejoy Pierce
I love this quote, as it uses the blank page of a book–the writer’s greatest nemesis–as a metaphor for our possibilities at the beginning of a new year.
Today, I’ll mention a serious resolution. First, however, is my tongue in cheek list of a writer’s ten New Year’s […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What? Christmas is Over? Really?
“Oh why can’t every day be like Christmas? For if every day could be just like Christmas, what a wonderful world this would be.”
—If Every Day Was Like Christmas (Red West; 1965)
It’s two days post-Christmas. The tree, if it’s still up, is dropping needles faster than raindrops falling in a monsoon, showering the opened boxes of gifts still sitting beneath it. Maybe the Christmas CDs have been relegated to the back of the shelf and decorations are finding their way into […]
Tuesday Thoughts: The Night Visitor
In my wildest dreams, I never imagined a Christmas like this one. Korea. 1952. My first Christmas away from home. The coldest December I’d ever experienced, in a country fighting to defeat Communism–something I’d studied in high school just two years earlier. Somehow, I’d strayed from my platoon. In the heat of battle, as we tried to outflank the enemy, I drifted too far and was left alone as the skirmish ended and night fell on this Christmas Eve. I […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What Sends Us to Our Knees?
“We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey, waved goodbye, and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.'”
–President Ronald Reagan’s Challenger eulogy (January 28, 1986)
Seminal moments. We’ve all experienced them, the number depending on how long we’ve been alive. The attack on Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, V-J Day, President Kennedy’s assassination, the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, the September 11 attacks. Moments when […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What Resolutions?
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity, and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
–Edith Lovejoy Pierce
I love this quote, as it uses the blank page of a book–the writer’s greatest nemesis–as a metaphor for our possibilities at the beginning of a new year.
Today, I’ll mention a serious resolution. First, however, is my tongue in cheek list of a writer’s ten New Year’s […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What? Christmas is Over? Really?
“Oh why can’t every day be like Christmas? For if every day could be just like Christmas, what a wonderful world this would be.”
—If Every Day Was Like Christmas (Red West; 1965)
It’s two days post-Christmas. The tree, if it’s still up, is dropping needles faster than raindrops falling in a monsoon, showering the opened boxes of gifts still sitting beneath it. Maybe the Christmas CDs have been relegated to the back of the shelf and decorations are finding their way into […]
Tuesday Thoughts: The Night Visitor
In my wildest dreams, I never imagined a Christmas like this one. Korea. 1952. My first Christmas away from home. The coldest December I’d ever experienced, in a country fighting to defeat Communism–something I’d studied in high school just two years earlier. Somehow, I’d strayed from my platoon. In the heat of battle, as we tried to outflank the enemy, I drifted too far and was left alone as the skirmish ended and night fell on this Christmas Eve. I […]