• Thoughtful thoughts

    What do you see?

    I have Had an interesting couple weeks.   In my posts called “Train Time”, I have written a couple times about the concept of joy and gratitude. This was intermingled with discussions about my sometimes obsessive habit of worrying about things, even though, most of the time, there has been very little to worry about. Then, about a year and a half ago, something came along that really had me worried. The actual source of this “Something” is irrelevant. For each of us who worry, the source of it will be different, but the results of the worry will be the same or similar. For a “Worry Wart” like I…

  • Train Time

    Train Time: No. 7

    Today, it’s the 5:05 bound for Homewood. I hope the American people collectively have a strong stomach. Because I fear that this election year is going to be a circus at best, and a political nightmare at the worst. Look at it this way: It looks like we are going to have one candidate who has already been in the white house for all of three terms and part of another; who has been the first lady of Arkansas , the first lady of the United States, and served under Obama for a little more than a term. When she was in office under President Obama, she was surrounded by…