Posted June 1, 2021 in Monthly News

I Am Not Afraid

I am old enough at this point to be fully aware that I am close enough to the end of the tunnel that I can see it. There was a time that the end of the tunnel was a vague light in the distance. At this point, it is close enough that I am beginning […]

Posted May 1, 2021 in Monthly News

Other Plans

John Lennon of Beatles fame is reported to have said, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” In general, that seems to be true. We spend a lot more time planning what we will do than we spend doing it. And very few things go exactly as planned.

That automatically entails more […]

Posted December 1, 2020 in Monthly News

Life's Plans

For one reason or another, the draft of Debra’s article reminded me of John Lennon’s well-known quotation, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” The plans that I made when I was young kept changing. Nothing went quite the way I had planned. I am not even able to determine how much—or […]

Posted September 30, 2020 in Monthly News

Extraordinary Ways

I may be the only regular reader of this newsletter who has actually been to war. My guess is that most of our readers are following Debra, and, like her, are women. In general, especially these days in the States, men have more experience with war than women do. “My” war was Vietnam. All my […]

Posted July 31, 2020 in Monthly News

The Only Way to Go

Life moves in only one direction: forward. There’s no going back, and there are no “do-overs.” That’s why we need to do the best we can with everything we do all the time. A long time ago, the Steve Miller Band said, “Time keeps on slippin’ into the future”:

Time is, in fact, […]

Posted November 3, 2019 in Monthly News

Life's Mysteries

I am among those who prefers life to be understandable, explainable, and—for the most part—predictable. I don’t understand all the Laws of Physics, but I believe they are “essentially” true: What goes up, must come down; Earth rotates on its axis and around the sun; the seasons change on a relatively fixed schedule, even it […]

Posted October 31, 2019 in Monthly News

Life Is What Happens

John Lennon of Beatles fame is quoted as having said, […]

Posted December 31, 2018 in Monthly News

Soul Purpose

John Lennon is usually given credit for having said, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” The origin of the saying, however, pre-dates Lennon. That’s understandable, because it is a universal truth. Robert Browning’s version (expressed in Andrea del Sarto) was “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what’s a […]

Posted June 30, 2016 in Monthly News

Other Plans

John Lennon wrote one of his most famous lines, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” in a song for his son Sean: Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy). Although he wasn’t the first to have that thought (for earlier versions, look here), the Lennon version has become the most quoted, perhaps […]