Just Sitting Here Thinking

Recordings of lessons from the 1990s and 2000s

Family Picnic: Everyone needs a 'Walden'...
Homer,Did Anyone Ever Say, 'Thank You'?": Remembering a brother on Memorial Day
I Went Back ......but, Couldn’t Find Myself: in Mountain City, Tennessee
Riding through life in my cars: Remembering old automobiles and friends
I heard a raindrop fall and it remade the day: "a little bit of heaven spilled over"
Recapturing a moment lost: Reminiscence in a garden
Hyacinths: blooming in unlikely places
Ash Wednesday: What is on your forehead?
A Valentine from God: a Valentine's Day thought
Birthday Y2K: a reflection on time
Joseph cooked while Mary fed the baby: a realistic crèche in words
Trying to make Christmas match the Christmas card: a Christmas sermon
On Words: Son Brad makes the observation, "Words don't make gravy."
Lord, open your sky, and rain on me: While the parched earth thirsts for rain, a soul thirsts for God.
The Acolyte: On Brad's first procession as acolyte.
First Frost: False promises have consequences.
A Candle in the Window: A new Christmas tradition is born at the Eastridge's house.
The Father who couldn't be there when his son was born: A Christmas Meditation.

A Fertile Mind of Wonder
Blue
I do not see a need to wait
I used to lie upon the ground
LeChaim
My heart doth all but burst
My Life Is A Herd of Horses
My mind has built a wall
Time
Two canvasses
Stepping Stones: "Like stepping stones in mountain streams"
Thought: Can life be shaped?
Death is no companion for me: A defiant poem penned when hospitalized for heart symptoms in the 1960's
Awaken: Morning thought

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