Sometimes the most well-corrdinated effort can go up in smoke.

I don't know about you, but I don't want to listen to Christmas Music in November.

Roast turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green beans, pumpkin pie, pecan pie. The feast alone is reason for gratitude. But, wait, there’s more...

It's gratitude month in America. thanksgiving week. Time to notice the simple and

abundant blessings that surround us.

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy." -- Jacques Maritian (1882-1973)

"God is not the kind of father who casts off sick and erring children; if he were,

he would have no children." -- Martin Luther

Excessive rains this year have made it nearly impossible to harvest pumpkins.

Carl Sagan's youtube clip called "Pale Blue Dot" is moving, serenely beautiful, thought-provoking, humgling and

an earnest plea for peace and kindness.

How time seems frozen in the kingdom of memory.

It started with students. And police. Twenty years ago today.