Monthly Archives: October 2022

I don’t remember exactly, but it went like this, “I’d like to schedule one of your fishing guides, one who has an interest in someone who writes murder/mystery fiction novels.”  The clerk at the Breckenridge Fishing Store laughed, “Oh, I … Continue reading →

I received a very thoughtful note [he’s incapable of anything less!] from my Rabbi Guide, Matthew Krane.  It was about an incident when an event happened that made my day. He wrote, “let me share a Yiddish word, berschert, which … Continue reading →

Eyes and Ears and Pulsing Heart merge.  About playing baseball, about Billy Joel, about teaching the self to play piano and write music, then to be admitted to the Berklee School of Music. All that…well, okay, piano?  Took piano lessons … Continue reading →

On this day…or is it in this day…or maybe during this day…the above “notes” come from two people in my life, each of whom has improved me…in terms of the deeper values in the journey on the human landscape.  The … Continue reading →

Great images…troubled water and a bridge.  Simon and Garfunkel brought it.  Now I came upon this video… I appreciate Josh Groban…his songs are so very deep in their value and truth…a voice of the heart for each of us, a … Continue reading →

Saw this article today, October 14, 2022.  Impacted me.  Not that I’m a crab [or lobster for that matter] fan.  Rather, how the total fishing industry is negative impacting so many due to lessened population. An example…salmon fishing in the … Continue reading →

I never met him personally.  But I did…in a manner that implanted within me the value of life.  That’s not in the clouds.  A brief narrative [yep, I can offer the brief!] I arrived in Chicago for my first pastorate—at … Continue reading →

No, I hadn’t thought about it.  More than likely, another day on the October calendar.  But, then. Ah, how much of our cruising along the human landscape are there “BUT THEN” moments.  First moment came from clergy colleague and Oregon … Continue reading →

Coursed through my photos, came upon this picture.    Was in the Northwest…a beautiful steelhead.  Look and you can see there’s no sun, no blue sky, good rain gear. And I thought…for so many, myself not excluded, it’s easy to get … Continue reading →

We were in the same boat…actually more a canoe than a boat…certainly not a sled boat.  Don’t remember the name of the lake, but my buddy, Phil Eisenhauer, who knew I have “sorta interest” in fishing, treated me.  We cast … Continue reading →