I am grateful for the 7 billion people in this world
with their 7 billion unique smiles…
smiles large and small…
and I am hopeful one day the human race
well have the opportunity experience them all.
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
REASONS TO SMILE
At this uncertain time in our history…
when every day our own government
gives us a hundred reasons to cry…
with actions contemptible and vile…
may we be blessed with the fortitude
the courage
and the perseverance…
to give the world
a thousand reasons to smile.
A QUICK THOUGHT ON HAPPINESS
Some people are always searching for happiness….
they look up, down…all around
as if happiness is a buried treasure…waiting to be found.
But what if we are already filled with happiness
and our heart is where we store it…
and once it is discovered
we find there’s no need searching for it.
Sometimes that happiness is hiding in our heart
and may be difficult to find
Hiding on the other side of a door…
we’ve yet to look behind.
Sometimes it may be silenced
when grief and sorrow fill the air…
but if we’re patient…over time
we find happiness is waiting there
And once we’re blessed to discover the happiness in our heart
in every cranny…crevice and nook
we tend to discover happiness
everywhere we look.
Sunday, February 15, 2026
DAILY GRATITUDE MY SMILE
I am grateful for the smile that stretches across my face
and just as grateful every time I can take my smile
and put it on someone else’s face
THINGS WE SHOULD BE FIGHTING FOR
May we be blessed as humans all across the world…
to stop fighting with our human sisters and brothers…
and put our collective talents and love together
In helping one another….
Imagine all the good we could do
Imagine our success…
If we all put our collective energies into fighting diseases
Like Alzheimers, Cancer and ALS.
If we as a human race..
helped protect our environment…our animals, our children
If we together fought climate change and poverty…
If we made sure every child could read
and made it our mission that everyone in the world…was free.
If we made a world-wide effort
To ensure hatred, prejudice and war would cease…
If all humans gathered together…
to create a world of everlasting peace.
COME BACK TO HUMANITY
Despite our government’s attempts to eliminated our painful history from textbooks…
we will always have the oral history…from people like Mehcad Brooks
Who, like many of us, finds it impossible to believe what has happened,
what is happening now
and what will happen next…
with an administration more interested in the Dow…
than girls (now women) once trafficked and used for sex.
He makes the case that what happened to them is part of an evil and grand design.
and how the lives of these woman and slaves from long ago are fundamentally intertwined.
He wonders how any administration can proclaim without an ounce of guilt
how they feel any gain in the stock market…
absolves them from the sins on which this gain was built.
He feels, as many of us do, that we must face not ignore
atrocities we have committed in the past…
as well as ones we are committing in the present…
if our country is to have a future that will last.
That if we continue to celebrate the climb…
while the people we’ve abused we seek to conceal…
we are all complicit in the oldest American sin…
and as a country we will never heal.
And he makes a plea to anyone in this administration
who still has some light left in their heart…
that this is your moment…to make a change…
that it’s not too late to start.
Now is your chance, he says, to stand up for what you know is right…
to stop this insanity…
there is still time, we all plead, for you to come back to humanity!
Don’t be afraid…if you are the first domino to fall toward justice…
others will follow you too…
If you do….history will call you a hero…
If you don’t…history will have a host of other names for you.
Saturday, February 14, 2026
DAILY GRATITUDE VALENTINE'S DAY
I am grateful we have a Valentine’s day
to celebrate love in a multitude of ways…
I only wish the whole world celebrated love
not just today…
but every day
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