Leaning Toward Wisdom

Sagacity. Saga City.  sagacity: having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd saga: any narrative or legend of heroic exploits Wisdom is steeped in sagacity. You can’t have one without the other. Not truly. In a word – one far more familiar to those of us with a more limited vocabulary – sagacity is judgment. For our purposes, good judgment. Bad judgment abounds. From the Presidential Twitter account to […]

Why is accepting responsibility so difficult? What is it about us that makes us crave the feeling we get when we assign our failures to somebody else? Why is our lunacy driven to find somebody or something to blame…when the culprit is always looking at us whenever we stand in front of a mirror? If […]

I was a kid, but it still struck me funny when an old person would exclaim, “I remember it the way it should have been.” Re-writing history is a time honored tradition of old people. I should know…now that I’m old.

Maybe you’ve never done it literally, but you’ve certainly done it – drawn a line in the sand. It’s an indication that you’ll go no further than a certain point. You’re drawing a line in the sand to establish a boundary you won’t cross. Drawing a circle in the sand is a similar thing I […]

Luke 9:62, “But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” This isn’t about being introspective. Or about not doing a post-mortem on our choices and actions to see what we can learn. Both activities are necessary if we’re going to lean […]

Another “free-form” Friday show. We start with a conversation about the power of a single sentence. Do you write? Do you write every day? Famous ABC newsman Howard K. Smith said he would have this children sit down every day to write one clear sentence. I remember thinking “what a great idea.” Smith was one […]

Freedom happens when you have choices. A lack of freedom is a lack of being able to choose. Enter desire and it changes things. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like a choice as much as what Barney Fife called a “compelsion.” It feels like it can’t be helped. That’s untrue, but it may as well be […]

Another free-form Friday for Friday, the 13th. Why not? The theme of optimism continues! Because can you have enough optimism? Of course not. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss “While we may not be […]

Preface To Today’s Show Tom Petty’s death derailed earlier plans to record. Years earlier – March 5, 1982 – another celebrity death impacted me. John Belushi was 33 and gone. I was 24. I can’t fully explain why, but it did. Petty’s death is much more explainable. Damn The Torpedoes was released on October 19, […]

It’s another free form Friday show. I kinda liked last week’s work flow so we’ll tempt fate and see if we can string together 2 in a row, only a week apart. And today it’s rainy and dreary here in DFW so I likely should have done last week’s show today! Such is life. Enjoy! […]