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  1. homecoming trip

    The longest trip I’ve taken was coming back from Vilnius. I was at the airport at 2 am. I had an early flight. I landed in Krakow and had a connecting flight to Zagreb. I got there around 2 pm and was in my city at around 9 pm.

    mylittlehawk.com/2026/09/13/ho

  2. Thanks to the treat app

    I enjoyed feeding the dogs using the Treats app; it was great to interact with them and give treats and food. It made the experience really special and fun! "So cool! I play & send goodies to shelter dogs for free https://treatapp.page.link/dar"

    faiththatflows.wordpress.com/2

  3. Early Morning Edition

    No not a newspaper, not a news channel, more like I just woke up too early.

    Mind Your Own SEC Business

    Last year I made the mistake of opening my mouth before a game I thought we could easily win, not again. The SEC opener is today. Alabama cruises up to Kentucky to play the wildcats. Ohio State is busy making excuses in case they take the loss in Texas that I predict happening. Michigan is still singing from the {rip-off}, I mean win with 0:00 on the clock. Gotta love me some college football. Good luck to the Ducks Willie.

    Date: Today September 12th
    Time: 3:30 p.m. ET
    Location: Kroger Field, Lexington Kentucky
    TV- ABC

    My Breakfast Combo of Course

    https://weeklyprompts.com/2026/09/12/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-fruitful/ https://estherchilton.co.uk/2026/09/10/can-you-tell-a-story-in-352/
    SGWP
    This weekend’s challenge word is Fruitful.

    ECWWP
    Can you tell a story in 32 words using the following words in it somewhere:
    JUNGLE
    RISSOTTO
    WALRUS

    The jolly walrus was quickly becoming the new hot spot for all the animals of the Shari jungle.

    https://youtu.be/GnOM5EZBipo

    Maurice the penguin survived in the jungle. His best friend George, a walrus who was know for his risotto dishes accompanied him on a quest that turned out to be quite fruitful. [32 words]

    No Place Like Home

    Daily writing prompt What’s your best tip for budget travel? ✅ View all responses
    I don't want to talk about the news
    No sense in me giving you the blues
    So let's dive into the prompt of the day
    And my advice to make a safe play
    Here's a tip to help you save the green
    Stay at home if ya know what I mean

    https://youtu.be/W6DmeR9a6ig?si=I5yX6L1zikFy2Uxj

    S1226 ©peaceful-threads.com

    #Alabama #Challenges #dailyprompt #dailyprompt2882 #football #journey #life #love #music #Poetry #SEC
  4. Make Space for What You’re Carrying

    Welcome to Day 4 of the Notes to Nowhere 30-Day Recovery Worksheet Journey. Recovery isn't always about making huge changes or having all the answers. Sometimes, it's simply about slowing down long enough to notice what you've been carrying. We all carry things with us—thoughts, memories, worries, regrets, fears, expectations, and emotions we haven't quite known what to do with. When we keep everything bottled up inside, it can start to feel overwhelming. That's where writing can […]

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  5. Make Space for What You’re Carrying

    Welcome to Day 4 of the Notes to Nowhere 30-Day Recovery Worksheet Journey. Recovery isn't always about making huge changes or having all the answers. Sometimes, it's simply about slowing down long enough to notice what you've been carrying. We all carry things with us—thoughts, memories, worries, regrets, fears, expectations, and emotions we haven't quite known what to do with. When we keep everything bottled up inside, it can start to feel overwhelming. That's where writing can […]

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  6. Make Space for What You’re Carrying

    Welcome to Day 4 of the Notes to Nowhere 30-Day Recovery Worksheet Journey. Recovery isn't always about making huge changes or having all the answers. Sometimes, it's simply about slowing down long enough to notice what you've been carrying. We all carry things with us—thoughts, memories, worries, regrets, fears, expectations, and emotions we haven't quite known what to do with. When we keep everything bottled up inside, it can start to feel overwhelming. That's where writing can […]

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  7. Make Space for What You’re Carrying

    Welcome to Day 4 of the Notes to Nowhere 30-Day Recovery Worksheet Journey. Recovery isn't always about making huge changes or having all the answers. Sometimes, it's simply about slowing down long enough to notice what you've been carrying. We all carry things with us—thoughts, memories, worries, regrets, fears, expectations, and emotions we haven't quite known what to do with. When we keep everything bottled up inside, it can start to feel overwhelming. That's where writing can […]

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  8. Make Space for What You’re Carrying

    Welcome to Day 4 of the Notes to Nowhere 30-Day Recovery Worksheet Journey. Recovery isn't always about making huge changes or having all the answers. Sometimes, it's simply about slowing down long enough to notice what you've been carrying. We all carry things with us—thoughts, memories, worries, regrets, fears, expectations, and emotions we haven't quite known what to do with. When we keep everything bottled up inside, it can start to feel overwhelming. That's where writing can […]

    notestonowhere6.wordpress.com/

  9. Day 2: Mapping Your Vision & Defining Objectives

    Welcome back to Day 2 of our goal-setting challenge! Yesterday, we focused on laying the foundation. Today, it's time to get specific about what you want to achieve and how you’re going to get there. Vague goals often lead to a lack of progress. To build on yesterday’s momentum, we're going to transition your aspirations into concrete, actionable steps. Get Your Day 2 Worksheet Ready to visualize your success and map out your path? […]

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  10. Another try, Another cry

    Or is this post a time robbing crime?

    Today kicks off another season for excitement, frustration, unhealthy snacks and ROLL TIDE FOOTBALL !!!

    Here we go Willie! Another year of high hopes, spilt tears and a championship up for grabs, good luck.

    © Kevin R @ NTTAlabama kickoff 11:00 AM CST Daily writing prompt If you could relive one year of your life, which one would it be? ✅ View all responses

    This is tough. I have many years I would want to relive so I could make the changes that affect the present but there is a haunting thought in the dark recess of my mind telling me this is the major one. With that said I guess today’s answer would be 1982. This is the year I got married, and started my over the road career in earnest. I won’t go into detail but there it is.

    Three Things Challenge  https://weeklyprompts.com/2026/09/05/weekly-prompts-colour-challenge https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2026/09/05/weekend-writing-prompt
    TTC
    Your three words today are:
    GIST
    GRIP
    GRIPE

    S&G
    For September, we have chosen the colour Lilac.

    SC
    This weekend your challenge is to write a poem or a piece of prose in exactly 90 words using the word “Trade”.

    In the gist of life’s journey I often gripe about the present affairs

    I stopped to smell a lilac today and it flooded my memories, taking me back to a time in life where I had nothing to gripe about. The purple flower was a symbol of love and beauty that my mother told me was the gist of life. I was maybe five or six at the time and I wouldn’t trade that memory for anything this world has to offer in these modern times. Memories like these grip my heart strings and gently tug at them bringing tears to my eyes.

    https://youtu.be/o7TuGz5H7kE

    S526 ©peaceful-threads.com

    #AlabamaFootball #alabamaCrimsonTide #BigAl #Challenges #cherished #dailyprompt #dailyprompt2875 #journey #life #lilacs #love #memories #NinaSimone #past #writing
  11. A moment

    This was just a moment. A moment where I wanted to go to the trainstation and cross the bridge. And at that moment, the bridge keeper decided it was the moment to open the bridge.

    #Groningen #Journey #Photography #FujifilmXT5 #moments #photojournal

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  12. India Safaris @indiasafaristrends.wordpress.com@indiasafaristrends.wordpress.com ·

    Indian Towns with a European Vibe: Explore Charm, Luxury, and Culture of India 2026–27

    Discover a different side of India where royal heritage, charming streets, colonial architecture, and modern luxury come together. Our latest blog, “Indian Towns with a European Vibe: Explore Charm, Luxury, and Culture in 2026–2027,” takes you through beautiful destinations that offer a unique blend of Indian traditions and European-inspired elegance. From peaceful hill towns to historic cities, explore places where every corner tells a story and every experience feels timeless. Read […]

    indiasafaristrends.wordpress.c

  13. A sunday in pictures

    This sunday I toon the bus from Groningen tot Roden (Drenthe) tot visit my mother. Toon soms photo's while walking to the central station and while waiting for the bus. Went to the old penal colony in Veenhuizen (Drenthe) with my mum, had a cup of tea there in a lovely garden.…

    #Groningen #Streetphotography #Journey #Photography #FujifilmXT5 #Garden #Art #moments #photojournal

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  14. Glitch

    aeropuerta by kmls
    flights are grounded
    my wings are clipped
    i need to wait a little
    longer to start this trip

    my future connection
    could be in jeopardy
    it might be a while
    before we're set free

    the whims of the divine
    are all part of the plan
    my life's trajectory is
    not in my hands

    so i will wait patiently
    for the Control Tower's nod
    and match my flight to the wind of an all-knowing God

    August 15, 2015

    #clippedWings #ContemplativePoetry #controlTower #delayedJourney #discernment #divineTiming #Faith #flightMetaphor #Flying #futureUncertainty #God #GodSPlan #grounded #Hope #Journey #lifeTrajectory #Obedience #Patience #pilgrimage #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Prayer #Providence #SpiritualJourney #SpiritualReflection #surrender #Travel #Trust #TrustGod #trustingTheProcess #Waiting #windOfGod #Writing
  15. M/S Lövskär 10.8.2026 saapumassa Seiliin, tulossa Nauvosta noutamaan meitä, ja huristelemassa myötätuulessa takaisin Turkuun.

    Tuosta Norrskäriä uudemmasta paatista en vielä löytänyt teknisiä tietoja, eikä ole pohjaa verrata muihin vastaaviin. Pienellä miehistöllä Saaristolinja/Vitharun noita pyörittää, mikä kai on nykyaikaa (vrt. bussit).

    #lövskär #laiva #boat #matka #journey #airisto #meri #sea #seili #saaristo #turku

  16. ✮ To That Potted Plant ✮

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  17. ✮ To That Potted Plant ✮

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  19. Football: Jacob Kleinsmith’s journey from Tauranga to Estonia’s professional league

    “I felt like a brick wall had just fallen on to my chest,” he said. Kleinsmith’s ambitions began…
    #Estonia #EE #Europe #Europa #EU #Eesti #estonia #estonias #Football #from #jacob #journey #kleinsmiths #league #professional #tauranga #TO #Uudised
    europesays.com/3143882/

  20. Escape

    #Journey #escape #80smusic #80srock #hardrock #rock #sopranos #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #classicrock #neilschon #steveperry I'm a "pre-1980" Journey fan -- Infinity is a masterpiece. Anything after 1980 makes my teeth hurt. But there's no denying the commerical success of Escape released on July 17, 1981. I mean, it even made the final scene of The Sopranos, for crissakes.

    robinbannks.com/2026/07/17/esc

  21. Culdesac

    down here on the path 
    beside the railroad tracks
    with the freight train
    slowly going by
    the urge to hop on one
    of the gravel laden cars
    and let it take me
    far away from here
    is almost overpowering

    as usual i do not
    make the leap and
    later i find myself
    walking past the old man
    with a broom sweeping
    the street to where the path
    turns back upon itself
    out past the little girl
    on her mama's back
    who says hi

    i try to smile in return
    but all i can think about
    is how did i ever get so lost

    July 9, 2015

    #almostLeaving #brokenRoad #childGreeting #ContemplativeWriting #Depression #Displacement #emotionalHonesty #escape #findingTheWay #freightTrain #gettingLost #humanEncounter #innerExile #Journey #Loneliness #longing #lostness #Melancholy #noOutlet #oldManSweeping #ordinaryGrace #pathMetaphor #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #ProsePoem #railroadTracks #sadness #searching #slowTrain #SpiritualReflection #staying #streetScene #urbanPoetry #walkingPath #wandering #wayfaring #WordPressTagsLost #Writing
  22. A Not So Bright Idea

    Am I being cyincal?

    Daily writing prompt What do you love now, that you hated when you were younger? View all responses

    This should be switched around but unfortunately WP has blocked me from changing the daily now. So my response is simply this.

    When I was a younger man I loved helping people even if I couldn’t afford to do so. I wanted and still do want people to be happy and not go without. This has surely prevented me from being monetarily rich but my heart account is busting at the seams. Okay the heart has been overdrawn many times but that is another post.

    What brought me to this post is a bad feeling I got today when answering a comment on yesterdays post. After replying I went onto doing my vocal training and practicing a song for my album. The reply kept sitting front and center in my thoughts. I had to spell it out here to get it off my mind.

    http://adrianodasilver0-dwxun.wordpress.com/ sent me the following message, Hello i am really in a bad situation i need your help and prayers please followed by a bunch of sad emojis. it tugged on my heart strings like a baby kitten in a rainstorm so I clicked on their profile and was taken to a blank site that was “Coming Soon”. I couldn’t find any posts in reader nor on the non-existent site. My reply was simple; Don’t think so as you don’t have any posts and are not subscribed here.

    Why did that eat at me all morning? I have helped people on here before that needed it and yes it makes me feel good to do so if I can. But this? Was it me being cynical thinking they are scammers? Do they just troll sites and post comments like this? And why does WordPress let anyone open an account without at least making a home page or About me Page?

    I sincerely hope this was a scammer and is unsuccessful getting anyone to fall for it instead of someone desperately needing help. I have sent prayers but to what avail. So in the end I guess I used to love helping people but now it is more of ‘Are you scamming me?” I guess the prayers I send out should be for me instead.

    https://youtu.be/idIgzzRzqAY?si=RtcWrJcjxUxO82KF

    J3026 ©peaceful-threads.com

    #dailyprompt #dailyprompt2808 #god #hate #journey #life #love #prayer #prayers #scammer #writing
  23. Visual Art Interpretation – My Hopes and Dreams for the Next Year

    This feels less like a list of resolutions than a marquee-map of my identity and desire: a radiant, hand-made 2027 filled not so much with tasks to accomplish as with the people, callings, loves, and practices that make my life feel alive.

    The bright red border and repeated golden lights give it the appearance of a theater sign, a carnival ride, or an illuminated road. It seems to announce the year joyfully: Here is what I hope will shine. But inside that celebratory outline, the words do not sit neatly in straight lines. They curve, turn, reverse, overlap, and require the eye to travel. That seems important. My hopes are not separate boxes. Pastor, husband, author, musician, PeaceGrooves creator, friend, artist, woodworker, child of God—all of these identities wind through and around one another.

    The words I placed inside the year—Sing, Play, Memories, God, Laugh, Journey, Pastor, Author, Husband, PeaceGrooves, Friends, Art, Church, Love, Woodcraft—are striking to me because so many of them are relational or creative. Even the roles are not primarily about achievement. Author is near Husband. Pastor winds along the same road as Journey. PeaceGrooves circles alongside Friends, Church, Love, and creativity. I did not imagine the coming year as productivity alone. I imagined it as belonging, expression, vocation, joy, and connection.

    The Word I Did Not Write

    After finishing the piece, I realized that I did not write health or healing anywhere inside it. Those things matter deeply to me, especially in light of some of the physical concerns and uncertainties I have been carrying. And yet, perhaps their absence does not mean they were forgotten. Perhaps I instinctively wrote the life I hope healing will allow me to continue inhabiting.

    I did not write healing, but I wrote Sing-Play: the hope that my body and spirit can still release themselves into music.

    I wrote Laugh: the hope for lightness, delight, and joy.

    I wrote Journey: the hope that I can continue moving forward.

    I wrote Husband and Friends: the hope of remaining present in love and relationship rather than retreating into worry or isolation.

    I wrote Pastor and Church: the hope that I can continue serving meaningfully among people.

    I wrote Art, Author, Woodcraft, and PeaceGrooves: the hope that creativity will continue flowing through me rather than being swallowed up by discouragement, exhaustion, or fear.

    Perhaps healing is everywhere in this drawing without having been named. It is hidden beneath almost every word: Let me be well enough, free enough, encouraged enough, and alive enough to keep inhabiting these loves.

    But perhaps the omission also tells me something tender and difficult about myself. When I think about the future, I often think first about what I can give, create, serve, love, and build. I may not always think first about what I need. This picture invites me to remember that somewhere in the glowing year ahead, there must also be room for my own care. I am not only the husband, pastor, artist, author, musician, friend, and creator. I am also a person who needs healing, rest, gentleness, and grace.

    The Smear Between Author and Husband

    One of the small accidents in the piece occurred in the space between Author and Husband. Water smeared the color there, and I had to cover it as best I could. I was mostly able to hide the mistake, though I know it happened. I know that beneath the finished surface there is a place where the colors once ran together in a way I did not intend.

    That accidental smear now feels strangely meaningful. Author and Husband are two of my most intimate identities: the part of me that creates worlds and gives language to inner experience, and the part of me that shares an actual life in love and covenant with another person. Perhaps those two identities were never meant to be sharply separated. My writing rises from my lived relationships, from tenderness, memory, fear, faith, longing, disappointment, and love. And my creative life inevitably spills into the life I share with my wife.

    The water touched the border between those words, and I tried to repair it. That is not a failure of the picture. It may be one of the most honest parts of it. Life does not remain perfectly inside the lines. The roles I care most about do not remain untouched by mess, vulnerability, or accident. Sometimes the colors run together. Sometimes I try to cover what went wrong. Sometimes a trace remains, visible mostly to me.

    Yet I did not throw the picture away. I continued working on it. I allowed the imperfection to become part of the finished whole.

    Perhaps that is an image of grace. A life of grace is not a life where nothing ever gets smeared. It is a life in which even the smeared places can be incorporated into the beauty.

    Church: Almost Illegible

    I also noticed that Church almost looks like “Churgh.” It is there, but it is not the clearest or most immediately readable word. That, too, feels symbolic.

    Church is deeply present in my hopes for the coming year. It is part of who I am, part of my calling, part of my relationship with God and with community. But church is not always simple or perfectly clear. It can be difficult to read. It can be beautiful and messy, life-giving and exhausting, sacred and profoundly human all at once.

    In this picture, church does not appear by itself in a clean, isolated space. It is crowded into a circling path alongside other words: Love, Friends, Art, perhaps even the movements of creativity and ministry surrounding it. That seems truthful. For me, church is not separate from love, friendship, art, imagination, service, or reconciliation. It is entangled with them.

    The fact that the word is only almost clear may express something I feel: church is something I continue to believe in and belong to, while also still trying to see clearly. It is present. It matters. It is part of the year I hope to live. But it is not polished or uncomplicated.

    Perhaps that is what makes it real.

    The Shape of the Year

    The large number itself is not simply filled in. It becomes a winding course. The words curve around turns and corners; some appear upright from one angle and upside down from another. To read the whole image, I almost have to rotate it, follow it, and let my eyes travel through it.

    That feels like an honest representation of the year ahead. I do not know exactly how it will unfold. My hopes do not form a straight road or a neatly numbered plan. They form a brightly lit labyrinth. Something that appears upside down from one position may look different once I travel farther along the curve. Something that seems peripheral now may become central. Something disappointing may redirect me toward an unexpected opening.

    This drawing does not say, Here is my plan to master the next year.

    It says, Here is the glowing path I hope to inhabit.

    That is truer to my life. Music feeds ministry. Woodcraft feeds contemplation. Writing feeds faith. PeaceGrooves gathers together my imagination, my longing for peace, my love of play, and my desire to offer something meaningful to others. Marriage and friendship keep my creative life from becoming merely solitary. Church places my personal dreams within a larger body. God is not outside all these things, looking down upon them from a distance, but present among them.

    My life is not a ladder climbing toward a single success. It is a winding, illuminated journey through many loves.

    The Lights Around the Border

    The repeated yellow bulbs around the border give the piece a vintage, celebratory feeling. They make the year look like something being announced: a show beginning, a stage opening, a bright invitation to enter.

    There is something almost exuberant about it. I did not draw a quiet little calendar page or a restrained list of intentions. I drew the year as a spectacle of hope. These dreams are not small to me. They are worthy of light. Music, laughter, love, friendship, art, faith, craft, writing, church, PeaceGrooves—these are not hobbies or decorative extras around the edge of life. They are among the things that make life worth living.

    And yet the lights are not machine-perfect. They are hand-drawn. Each one is slightly different. Some are rounder, some rougher, some more irregular. That matters too. The brightness of this coming year is not a slick commercial promise that everything will be perfect. It is the brightness I have carefully drawn around my hopes with my own imperfect hand.

    Most moving of all, the lights continue around the bends. They do not shine only along the smooth or impressive stretches. They follow the narrow turns, the dips, the places where the shape curls inward. The light does not abandon the complicated places.

    What This Picture Says to Me

    This is a picture of my hope not merely to survive another year, but to remain fully myself within it.

    I want to sing and play.

    I want to laugh.

    I want to remember.

    I want to journey.

    I want to love and be loved.

    I want to remain a husband, a pastor, an author, an artist, a craftsman, a musician, a friend, and a dreamer.

    I want PeaceGrooves not merely to exist as a project, but to become an expression of something deep within me: my longing to imagine, create, and make peace.

    I want God not as an abstract religious idea floating somewhere outside my life, but as a living presence woven among music, love, creativity, friendship, church, memory, laughter, and journey.

    And perhaps beneath the entire picture is the word I did not write: wholeness.

    Wholeness includes health. It includes healing. But it is larger than both. It is the hope that all these different names for myself will not compete with one another, break apart, or fade away, but somehow curve together into a single radiant life.

    The smear between Author and Husband, the almost-illegible Church, the reversed words, the crowded pathways, the uneven bulbs, and the wandering design do not lessen the picture. They make it more truthful.

    My hopes for the next year are not cleanly arranged or perfectly protected from mistakes. They are handmade. They are entangled. They are vulnerable. They are colorful. They are imperfect.

    And they are still shining.

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