I was meeting with my landscape architect the other day and I noticed a beautiful ring he was wearing that was made from sterling silver with a prominent cross engraved in it. I told him I really like it and he told me he bought it in Texas. A week later I was being cared for by a nurse during the pre-op phase of my rotator cuff surgery and noticed she was wearing the exact same cross ring. I told her about seeing an identical ring on my friend and I really like it. She told me she bought it in Texas . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/07/we-are-one/

One day my wife decided that she would make some truly homemade biscuits as a special treat for the family. We loved biscuits and gravy with dried beef, and we were all waiting in eager anticipation of this breakfast feast. When she served the biscuits I noticed a clinking sound when I dropped one on my plate. Further investigation revealed that her homemade biscuit was as hard as concrete . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/07/hard-lessons/

One time I bought a new car and my secretary at the time exclaimed that I sure was “lucky”. I told her that it was amazing how luck has worked for me in that the harder I worked the “luckier” I got. Just the other day I had someone exclaim that I was “too blessed” by God. “Huh?” I asked, “Do you suppose God got it wrong?” . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/07/luck-has-nothing-to-do-with-me/

I am among the world’s worst at accepting help. Currently I have two very large trees that fell on my fence. I have heavy equipment to remove it, but it is a two or three person job to do so because a chain saw will be required to cut it into smaller, more manageable, pieces with an equipment operator lifting it off the fence . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/07/dont-break-the-chain/

I asked a young man (teenager) one time what the Fourth of July means to him. He didn’t hesitate to say, fireworks, hot dogs, hamburgers, watermelons, pool parties, and good times. I asked why we celebrate this holiday, and he couldn’t tell me. He scratched his head and said, “I don’t rightly know” . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/07/freedom-is-not-free/

A lady wrote me yesterday and her letter was near identical to at least 50 others that I’ve received lately. After detailing her many problems she wrote (in part) this series of excerpts: “I believe the Lord will provide for me”. . . “I have lost so much sleep”, I’m very scared” . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/07/poochie-and-his-lies/

Well today is Friday and with all the world’s problems steam rolling us I thought every reader needed to just chill today. Many years ago, an employee and I were driving and saw a man crossing a bridge spanning the expressway. He looked as though he had escaped a mental institution somewhere and was obviously not right in the head, but he had a huge smile on his face as though he didn’t have a care in the world and was loudly singing. I remarked to the employee, “That could be me; not a care in the world, and totally oblivious to the problems in which I’m being body slammed by.” . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/06/carefree/

I had my shoes and socks off the other day because my feet were hurting from walking so much. I was looking at the tattoo on the top of my foot and reminiscing as to how it got there. I was about twenty years old in New Orleans and walking through the French Quarter with my girlfriend one night. We were both drunk as skunks and happened to pass a tattoo shop. I told her that I was going in there and get a tattoo and we went into the shop . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/06/woe-to-the-idiot-me/

One of the things I enjoy most in life is conversing in virtually any format, (verbally, phone, or e-mail), with intelligent people. I have often counseled junior managers to try and hire the most intelligent team members they can find, and that one can always spot this characteristic by looking into their eyes; I call this phenomenon having “bright eyes” . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/06/bright-eyes/

At New York’s annual Drag March on Friday, activists chanted “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.” Two years ago, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus released a YouTube video in which 81 of its members sang a song with the refrain: “We’ll convert your children / Happens bit by bit. / Quietly and subtly. / You will barely notice it.” . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/06/children-run-and-hide/