I am grateful for the soul I feel I know it’s real It keeps me smiling as the nights grow longer Helps me grow stronger In the truth Sometimes… It seems It’s all I got And when I’m not Beatin’ myself senseless I confess I see the Light And I’m alright ‘Cause having my soul…

Today I took my last written final for my Professional Mariner Activities degree; Saturday I have a class but no test.  I am so grateful for all of the things that I have learned in the program at Orange Coast College; I am grateful for the people, (both instructors and students) that I have met. …

I am grateful for a wonderful evening, family gathered together to celebrate Bodhi’s seventeenth birthday. Wonderful people. Wonderful food. Wonder full birthday…

I am grateful for the guest Marc and I recorded with this morning for Moped Outlaws episode #80. No! I ain’t telling you who it is… it goes live next Monday. And I am grateful for the Netflix series: Half Bad: The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself. It is hitting just right right now……

Today I drove with Grace down to San Diego to the Training Resources Maritime Institute.  The purpose of this trip was to spend half of a day training how to put fires out on a ship, in tight spaces.  Decked out in Fire Turnout Suits with breathing apparatus’ strapped to my back, I followed my…

Tonight I am grateful for the conversation I had with my daughter. I appreciate greatly her openness; her trust. …and – I ask for strength. Because sometimes, I sleep where the sun don’t ever shine.

With all of the World Cup Hype that is going on, I almost forgot that I needed to reregister with the United States Soccer Federation as a referee.  This is something that has to be done every year; a background check and completing a series of written/online tests and depending on your level of officiating,…

I am grateful to be part of the Racial Justice Task Force. Its members are intelligent, compassionate, open-minded, and supportive… I am grateful to learn and grow with them. The priority of TUHSD schools is to provide a safe, supportive, and student-centered learning environment to all students. This work will take place in concert with…

Two very special things happened today, that I am so very grateful for. The first is….The United States Men’s Soccer team won their third game of the group stage at the FIFA World Cup Tournament; this means that they now advance on to the group of Sixteen, better know as the Knock Out Stage.  The…

I am grateful for a very wonder full evening — the gift of fine company and dinner. It is funny how my mind races to make sense of things that are still in development. Silly mind; silly thoughts. So, I guess I am also grateful for a handful of mantras that help me calm the…

I may wait just to mess with my brother.  If I don’t get this posted by mid-night tonight, I will owe him five dollars; so if this was April Fools Day rather than Thanksgiving Day, I may wait until 23:58 tonight to post this blog. Today is Thanksgiving Day, here in the United States.  I…

Well… things change. I checked last week, and I’m sooo sure that EO was playing tonight in San Rafael. I was wrong; obviously — because it’s not. So, I am grateful for the person able to pivot that I had planned to see EO with. I am grateful for the friends and family I will…