The road we were told not to take
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The road we were told not to take
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Taken on Wednesday, 30 September, 2026 at 20:28 with Samsung Galaxy A05s.
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Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, for my good friends who are always kind to me, you all are included in my life plans. If it weren't for you my friends, it would be very, very difficult for me to survive until now, really. May the best for all of us.
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As chaotic as life is, I always try to plan it. Just as a country has its development plans, I too must have them, both in the long term and in the short term. I always pray that those evil people who want to mess up my plans, my life, will disappeear.
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I know that many people hate my existence, well whatever, that's their problem, not mine. Indeed, their hatred is evil, not only towards me but also towards other people who are kind to me. I am kind and always do good, people will know me as so, including my real friends.
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I do create my own meaning of life, because as a human being, I have to have a meaning of life. I believe that existence precedes essence, that is to say, I exist first and only then comes what I do, my essence—which in turn make my very existence more significant.
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Planned or unplanned, whatever it is that I have experienced so far, must be accepted as it is. A continuous state of pure ease or pure hardship does not exist in reality. Even in hardship, there is ease. However, even so, it is human nature to seek for the good, including me.
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I have lived for more than 20 years and there are many things that I have certainly achieved, but there are still many more that I have not. I am grateful for all of these indeed, it has to be like that. My journey was not always easy but in the end I reached my destination.
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Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving the past behind. It means acknowledging the ghosts, understanding our motives, and learning to embrace the life we're living now without letting yesterday decide what happens next. ❤️ #MovingForward #LettingGo #LifeLessons #PersonalGrowth #HealingJourney #LivingInThePresent #MovingOn #SelfReflection #Photography #RealTalk #Instagram #Relationships #NewBeginnings #LifeJourney #LoveMeAnyways #RickOllie
Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving the past behind. It means acknowledging the ghosts, understanding our motives, and learning to embrace the life we're living now without letting yesterday decide what happens next. ❤️ #MovingForward #LettingGo #LifeLessons #PersonalGrowth #HealingJourney #LivingInThePresent #MovingOn #SelfReflection #Photography #RealTalk #Instagram #Relationships #NewBeginnings #LifeJourney #LoveMeAnyways #RickOllie
Every journey leaves something behind and gifts us new perspectives. The real transformation happens between starting and reaching your destination. Reflect on one experience that changed your life. #LifeJourney #SpiritualAwakening #DrGaneshMarees
The Bravest Things I Did When No One Was Watching
“Lately I’ve been winning battles left and right,
But even winners can get wounded in the fight.” 🎵 – “Warrior is a Child” by Gary Valenciano
Those words from Gary Valenciano’s The Warrior Is a Child came to mind as I reflected on today’s question:
What’s the bravest thing I’ve ever done when no one was watching?
For the longest time, I thought bravery had to look dramatic.
Something big. Something obvious. Something people would remember.
But the older I get, the more I realize that some of the bravest things we do happen quietly, without an audience, without applause, and sometimes without anyone even knowing that we were struggling.
For me, bravery has often looked like continuing.
Getting up on days when I wasn’t completely sure what I was doing with my life.
Making decisions without knowing exactly where they would take me.
Walking into unfamiliar places and trusting myself to figure things out.
Starting over when it would have been easier to stay comfortable.
And learning to be okay with not having every chapter planned before turning the page.
The courage to go beyond what is familiar
Travel has taught me a lot about courage.
There is something humbling about arriving somewhere unfamiliar and realizing that you don’t know the roads, the language, the customs, or even what the next few hours will look like.
Yet somehow, you go.
You look around.
You figure it out.
And eventually, the unfamiliar becomes a memory you treasure.
I think life works much the same way.
Sometimes we don’t need a perfect map. We just need enough courage to take the next step.
The battles nobody sees
But perhaps the bravest things aren’t always the things we accomplish.
Sometimes, they’re the things we endure quietly.
The decision to keep going when nobody knows how difficult it has been.
The courage to start again.
The strength to walk away from what no longer belongs in your life.
The willingness to admit that you don’t have all the answers.
And sometimes, simply getting through a difficult day is its own kind of victory.
We tend to celebrate the visible victories. The new beginnings. The accomplishments. The destinations.
But there are also victories that happen behind closed doors.
Nobody sees the tears.
Nobody hears the conversations we have with ourselves.
Nobody knows how many times we had to gather ourselves and say, Tomorrow, I’ll try again.
Yet those moments count too.
Maybe especially those moments.
We don’t always have to be the warrior
That’s why this song resonated with me today.
We can be strong and still be tired.
We can be courageous and still be afraid.
We can look like we have everything together while quietly trying to hold ourselves together.
Being brave doesn’t mean never falling.
It means finding the strength to get back up.
And perhaps it also means knowing when we can put down the sword and rest.
Because we are not machines built to fight endlessly.
There is a human being underneath the armor.
Someone who needs rest.
Someone who needs comfort.
Someone who sometimes needs to be reminded that it is okay not to have everything figured out.
So, what was the bravest thing I did when no one was watching?
Maybe it wasn’t one particular moment.
Maybe it has been all those little moments when I chose to continue.
To travel beyond what was familiar.
To begin again.
To trust myself.
To walk into the unknown.
To keep turning the pages even when I couldn’t see what the next chapter would bring.
And perhaps that is what I’ve come to understand about courage as I get older:
Bravery isn’t always standing tall in front of the world.
Sometimes it is quietly picking yourself up when nobody is watching.
Sometimes it is admitting that you’re tired.
Sometimes it is allowing yourself to cry.
And sometimes, it is simply waking up the next morning and saying:
“Okay. Let’s try again.”
Because beneath all that strength, beneath all that experience, beneath all that armor, there is still a softer part of us that deserves to be cared for.
And that’s why the final thought of that song stays with me:
“The warrior is a child.” ❤️
Maybe the bravest thing we can do is accept that both can be true.
We can be the warrior who keeps going…
and the child who sometimes needs to rest. 🎵🕊️
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#bravery #dailyprompt #dailyprompt2874 #GaryVForLife #lifeJourney #motivation #travel #warriorGood morning! They said "life is a book" and every single day, we're just turning the page. Ready for the next chapter. 📖✨️
Three important steps in my maturation process
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Entering the Golden Hour ✨🧚♂️🌬️
Entrando nell'ora d'oro.
Tribute ti Elin Kleopatra Danielson Gambogi.
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This image marks an important point in my recovery. I took this photograph on the first longer walk since I came home from hospital 6 weeks ago. It is a never ending delight looking at this group of trees. Yesterday it wasn’t a very bright day. It had been raining. The sun had just peeked through a break in the clouds.
It needed to be celebrated in spite of the darker, moodier tones. To me it represents light after a challenging year to date.
From a Monkey Mind to a Monk Mind: My Journey Towards a Peaceful Life
The rainy season has arrived. The sky stays wrapped in grey clouds, the air feels calm, and nature seems to whisper one simple message: slow down. Four months ago, I resigned from my job. Many people thought I was simply leaving a career. But for me, it was the beginning of something much bigger. I wasn't running away from work—I was walking towards the life I had always wanted to live. Not the happiest life. A peaceful one. For years, I searched for peace in places where it could […]✮ Play It to the Bone ✮
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The Fear of Dying Before You Become Yourself
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You are not lost. You are in a chapter of the story called "Finding Your Way."
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Life is a journey. It’s not about the destination. The experience of walking, running, crawling, or even rolling through it — that’s what matters most. Opening your mouth to share your experience and hope might help save someone. #LifeJourney, #ShareYourStory, #HopeAndHealing
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Don’t Rush Through the Museum
Have you ever thought about life being like a museum with many stations to observe? With Jesus, we get the full experience. Without Him we could quickly get lost, skim over beneficial details, and never experience the fullness and wonder of what He has made for us.https://gemsofknowledge.com/2026/06/08/dont-rush-through-the-museum/
Find Vocation 4/10 🌊
The path is rarely clean.
Confusing. Nonlinear. Full of doubt.
Only later does it look logical.
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Just a few more sunsets here, then a new chapter begins 🌅🌄🌊💫
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Fifty-Nine on Pentecost: Fire, Bridges, and a Heart Still Being Warmed
A Birthday Reflection — May 24, 2026
Today, I turn fifty-nine.
There is something strange about writing that number. Fifty-nine is not yet sixty, but it stands close enough to feel the gravity of that approaching threshold. It is a year poised at the edge of another decade, a number that invites a certain kind of honesty. Not the dramatic honesty that pretends everything has suddenly come into focus, but the quieter honesty of looking back over the terrain I have actually traveled: the things that have blossomed, the things that have hurt, the things still unfinished, and the signs of grace that keep appearing in the undergrowth.
I would like to say that I arrive at this birthday strong and full of energy, ready to gather every creative seed scattered through my life and bring it all into harvest. But that is not entirely true.
I have not been feeling well physically. My body has been reminding me that I am not simply a mind imagining world, a spirit dreaming visions, a pastor speaking words, or an artist shaping beauty. I am a body too—a body that tires, aches, worries, and longs to be well.
There is a particular sorrow in having so much one still wants to do while feeling uncertain about one’s strength to do it. There are stories pressing at the edges of my mind. There are songs waiting for breath. There are images, games, reflections, ministries, strange and beautiful worlds, and ideas of reconciliation and peace that I still want to offer. So much creative life has been stirring. So many sparks have appeared.
And alongside those sparks has been the quiet prayer:
Please, God, let me be well enough to tend the fire.
Perhaps that is why the date of this birthday feels especially meaningful.
Today, my birthday falls on Pentecost Sunday.
Pentecost is the day when frightened and uncertain disciples, people who had already known grief, bewilderment, failure, and hope beyond explanation, were gathered in one place. They were not standing at the height of their strength. They were waiting. They were living between what had been promised and what they could not yet see.
And into that waiting came breath and flame.
The Spirit descended. Words awakened. The scattered were gathered. The fearful found their voices.
I have often thought of creativity as something like that: a rushing wind through a room that has gone still; a flame resting upon an ordinary head; a language arriving that I did not fully know I knew. A story comes. A song arrives. An image forms. An idea for peacebuilding, a game, a sermon, a strange new country of the imagination appears as though someone has opened a window in a room that had grown close and airless.
Over this past year, windows have opened.
PeaceGrooves has continued to become more than an idea. It has become a gathering place for the things I most deeply care about: peace, creativity, imagination, justice, story, music, and the hope that human beings can learn to live differently with one another. I have imagined games that refuse the old assumption that conflict must end in domination. I have thought about creative peacebuilding not merely as an interesting phrase but as a calling: the possibility that art and story and play may become instruments of reconciliation.
I have continued to write strange, shadowed, luminous stories—stories emerging from history, disaster, forgotten figures, mystical places, wounded worlds, and the possibility that even within darkness there may yet be a voice calling toward mercy. I have made images and songs. I have watched one idea open into another and then another, like doors in an old house I did not know was so large.
And all the while I have continued to minister: to preach, to walk with people, to seek the goodness of God in the land of the living. I have continued to believe that reconciliation is not a decorative word for the church, but part of the very shape of the gospel: enemies becoming neighbors, strangers becoming companions, wounds becoming places where healing may begin.
Yet I can not pretend that this year has been only creative exhilaration.
There has also been weariness. There has been discouragement. There has been the familiar ache of wondering whether what I create will ever find the audience I hope for, whether the songs and stories and visions will reach beyond the small circle in which they first come to life. There has been the weight of inhabiting a body that does not always feel cooperative. There has been the fear that perhaps my energy will diminish before the fullest flowering of my gifts.
But Pentecost does not come only to the vigorous.
The Spirit does not descend only upon those who are untroubled, healthy, young, successful, or certain. The wind blows through closed rooms. The fire rests upon waiting people. The gift is not that the disciples suddenly become invulnerable; it is that they become alive with a life greater than their fear.
Today also carries another spiritual memory. On May 24, 1738, John Wesley went reluctantly to a meeting on Aldersgate Street. Reluctantly—that word matters to me. He was not triumphantly marching toward a spiritual experience. He went while troubled, still searching, still uncertain. And there, while hearing words about grace, he wrote that he felt his heart “strangely warmed.”
I find myself less interested now in a faith that demands I always appear strong and more drawn to the quiet mystery of a heart that can still be warmed.
At fifty-nine, I do not need to have everything solved. I do not need to prove that every dream has succeeded. I do not need to deny that I am tired or that I long for healing. Perhaps the deeper prayer is that my heart would remain warm: warm toward God, warm toward my wife, warm toward the people I serve, warm toward beauty, warm toward the wounds of the world, warm even toward my own imperfect and unfinished self.
It is possible for a person to grow cold over the years. Disappointment can do that. Illness can do that. Rejection can do that. The constant awareness of limits can make the spirit draw inward and protect itself.
But I do not want to live cold.
I would rather remain tender, even when tenderness hurts. I would rather keep imagining peace in a violent world. I would rather keep writing songs in a world of noise. I would rather keep dreaming of bridges while so many others are building walls.
For May 24 is also a day of bridges.
On this date in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge opened after years of labor, loss, pain, and perseverance. Washington Roebling, who oversaw its construction, became physically incapacitated during the work, and the project continued in significant measure through the indispensable work of his wife, Emily. A bridge connecting divided shores came into being through vulnerability, endurance, and partnership.
That image speaks to me.
Perhaps a life is not measured only by towers raised or destinations reached. Perhaps it is also measured by the bridges one has helped build: between people, between faith and imagination, between sorrow and hope, between church and world, between creativity and reconciliation, between the person I once was and the person I am still becoming.
I do not know all the bridges my life may yet build. I know only that I want my remaining years to matter in that way. I want my ministry to help people cross from fear into love. I want my art to help people cross from numbness into wonder. I want PeaceGrooves to help people imagine forms of community, play, and storytelling that do not require enemies to be destroyed. I want my life to say, however imperfectly, that another way is possible.
On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first long-distance telegraph message:
“What hath God wrought.”
It is a phrase of astonishment. A phrase for standing before something new and scarcely believable. A phrase that looks backward and forward at the same time: marveling at what has come to be while wondering what it may make possible.
Today, on my fifty-ninth birthday, I find myself asking that question of my own life.
What has God wrought in fifty-nine years?
Not perfection.
Not a life without sorrow.
Not a straight line of accomplishment.
Not a body untouched by weakness or a soul untouched by struggle.
But there is love. There is a marriage and a shared ministry. There are songs. There are stories. There are carved and painted and imagined things. There are sermons preached and people accompanied. There is the stubborn conviction that peace is not naïve, that reconciliation is not weakness, that the imagination may yet become an instrument of healing.
There is joy that has somehow continued to rise through weariness.
There is beauty I have been permitted not only to see but sometimes to make.
And there is still more waiting.
Bob Dylan, born on May 24, shares this birthday. He is another reminder that creativity needs not stop at the borders of age. It may deepen. It may shift. It may become more weathered, more honest, and more necessary. Songs do not cease simply because the singer has traveled a long road. Sometimes, the road itself gives the song its voice.
I do not want this coming year merely to be a holding pattern before sixty.
I want it to be a living year.
I want health—not simply because I want relief, though I do; not simply because I want freedom from worry, though I do—but because I love this world and still want to participate in it. I want strength to preach and minister. I want strength to make music. I want strength to create strange and beautiful stories. I want strength to love my wife well, to be present to people, to follow the paths opening before me.
I want to be able to receive each day not merely as something to endure but as something in which grace may still take shape.
Yet even here I must be gentle with myself.
My worth does not depend upon how much I produce. My life is not validated only by completed books, successful songs, public recognition, flourishing projects, or the ability to do everything my imagination desires. Before I make anything, before I accomplish anything, before I am strong enough to do all I hope to do, I am loved.
Perhaps that is the warmth I need most.
At fifty-nine, standing in the firelight of Pentecost, I pray for the Spirit once again—not as spectacle, not as spiritual achievement, but as breath.
Breath for a tired body.
Fire for a creative heart.
Courage for a minister of reconciliation.
Comfort for the places in me that are afraid.
Patience for what is not yet finished.
Joy is not dependent upon perfect circumstances.
Healing, as healing may come.
And above all, the assurance that I remain held within the goodness of God.
Today, I am fifty-nine years old.
I do not know what this year will bring. I do not know what my body will require of me, or what new stories will be born, or what doors may open or close. But I know what I hope for.
I hope to remain awake.
I hope to remain tender.
I hope to remain creative.
I hope to keep making peace.
I hope to keep crossing bridges and building them for others.
I hope my heart is still capable of being strangely warmed.
And on this birthday of wind and fire, of messages carried across distance, of bridges spanning divided shores, of songs still being sung, I offer my unfinished life once more to the One who breathes over creation and says, even now, that it is good.
Come, Holy Spirit.
Breathe upon what is weary in me.
Warm what has grown discouraged.
Heal what is hurting.
Kindle, what is waiting.
And grant that the year ahead may become,
in ways I can not yet imagine,
another answer to the question:
What hath God wrought?
Taken on Monday, 13 May, 2024 from 18:54 to 19:15 with Samsung Galaxy A05s.
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As of the time of this post, I am still using it, although rarely. I already have my second smartphone, Samsung Galaxy A05s. This smartphone is now 2 years old, I bought it on 8 May, 2024. My first phone was missing the power button back then, so I bought a second one.
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I'm not trying to say this objectively okay, Samsung Galaxy A10s is highly durable. It has fallen many times like on the floor or from the table, but it still works well until now. This phone ever frozen due to system overload, only once, hopefully it won't happen again.
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With this phone, I have full autonomy on the internet for the first time, of course because this is my phone, I bought it with my money. If I hadn't forced myself to buy this back then I might have waited longer or never met you my friends. This phone has really helped me a lot.
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This is my first smartphone, Samsung Galaxy A10s. This smartphone is now 5 years old, I bought it on 20 May, 2021. It might be a bit funny to post this but this smartphone was my only hope, my only device to access the internet, in my very difficult times in 2021 and 2022.
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“There is no final destination to our journey.”
― Raphael Zernoff
#Bot #Quote #Destination #Journey #LifeJourney #RaphaelZernoff #Spirituality #Wisdom
Life mirrors a rich historical fiction, laden with twists and growth opportunities. Approach each chapter with resilience and optimism. True success lies not only in personal achievements but in inspiring others. Let's foster a culture of greatness together. We CAN make an impact! 🌟 #Inspiration #LifeJourney #PositiveChange
Interpreters and Visionaries: The Dream Code
My new article.
Interpreti e visionari: il codice onirico - Claudia Ciardi
https://www.claudiaciardi.net/2026/03/31/interpreti-e-visionari-il-codice-onirico/
#DreamIntersections #dreamcode #DreamInterpretationHistory #article #writing #symbolism #lifejourney #visionary
Such beautiful and lovely Teammates !!! Always obsessed and memorable for my whole life ♥️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜
Farewell Party 2k26
#collegelife #collegedays #collegefarewell #collegejourney #myjuniors #dearjuniors #wonderfullmemory #memoryforlife #lifejourney #postgraduation #farewell #farewellparty #farewell2026 #pgfarewellfynction #farewelltreat #thanksforparty #partytime #pg #postgraduationcomplete #gacsng #gcsng #governmentcollegesundargarh #sundargarh #sng #sandeepjamuda #sandeepmunda #smj #smjuniverse
Farewell Party 2k26 Time, Hiiiiii........🪩😂😁🤣😎🔥
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Honour to receive the Mr. Farewell 2K26 Title of the Department from Our HOD Sir 🙏👑🔥😎
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Thanks for recognition and Honour to Win the Title Mr. Farewell Of the Department. Dedicated to all my Well Wishers. 👑🙏😎🔥
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Never Fear The Dream…
Be pleasant; accept...https://simplebender.com/2026/03/19/never-fear-the-dream-82/
Without nudity we wouldn’t exist. It’s the structure of our individuality. Our existence is unique and should be rewarded and celebrated and respected for our natural beauty. ✌️😊 #naturism #life #truth #happiness #BeYourself #bodypositivity #selfconfidence #lifejourney #nudeliving #westmidlands
Actor Unni Raja opens up about growing up in poverty, finding his voice through theatre and mime, and the deeply personal moment of buying his mother the land where she once laboured — a story of resilience and rooted success. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/news/bought-the-field-his-mother-toiled-for-years-in-her-name-now-she-tends-her-own-crops-there-v5ssz1pj?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #UnniRaja #MalayalamCinema #Marimayam #KasaragodStories #LifeJourney
Aging gracefully is more than just life's milestones; it's an investment in the adventure itself. I am dedicated to helping seniors thrive in health and wealth. What do you believe is essential for a fulfilling retirement? Share your wisdom! 💡
FOUR STAGES OF A MAN’S LIFE
In which stage are you currently?
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FOUR STAGES OF A MAN’S LIFE:
1. You believe in Santa.
2. You don’t believe in Santa.
3. You are Santa.
4. You look like Santa.
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1953 Cadillac Fleetwood
A 1953 Cadillac Fleetwood in black stands as a testament to resilience and style. Let your dreams shine as brightly as this classic beauty! 🌟🚘
#FridayFavorites #Inspiration #ClassicCars #Fleetwood #LifeJourney #ClassicElegance #DreamBig #Inspiration #MotivationMonday #InspireYourself #weirdcarmastodon
We are all just prisoners here, of our own device...
If you told me this would be my life, I wouldn’t have believed you 💙
From high-tech in Israel to teaching Hebrew in the U.S., I’ve always built from scratch — creating what’s needed and meaningful.
“Hebrew by Inbal” has been the hardest and most rewarding work of my life.
Your pictures, messages, and real-life use of what I’ve created… it means everything.
This community is bigger than me, and I’m so grateful to be part of it. 💙🇮🇱🤍
🎸🎹 Wow, four years of sight reading practice and all it took was an accidental delivery from the 90s and a #piano that followed them home in 2021. It's like a rom-com for instruments, only less entertaining and with more iPad app tutorials. 😂 #LifeGoals
https://sandrock.co.za/carl/2025/05/four-years-of-sight-reading-pracice/ #music #sightreading #lifejourney #romcom #HackerNews #ngated
20 years to give away virtually all my wealth
#HackerNews #wealthgiving #philanthropy #lifejourney #generosity #givingback
A reflection on a cold late winter night.
When I look at my mother these days, I see the smile that once belonged to my grandmother, because my mother is now the same age my grandmother was when I was a child. I also see my grandfather's expressions and walk.
When I look at my father, I see my grandfather's chin and neck, but my grandmother's expression and posture.
When I look in the mirror, I see a bit of all of them, and although time passes, marking my face, graying my beard and hair, and aging my skin, I know it will make me look more and more like them. And this makes the inevitable passage of time feel a little sweeter.
Episode 15 of my Spiritual But Not Religious podcast is now live. It's a review of the memoir by John Hamilton titled "Honest to God" and how I found that although we have traveled different paths, I feel a deep kinship with his journey.
Check out my post on Substack:
https://open.substack.com/pub/spiritualbnr/p/the-winding-path-of-spiritual-growth?r=4xnlj1&utm_medium=ios
You can also find the episode on your favorite podcast app and on my blog at https://www.spiritualbnr.org/blog/honest-to-god.
#SBNR #SpiritualBNR #Spirituality #BookReview #Podcast #LifeJourney #Memoir