Posted in Navy, Spiritual, gratitude, military, tagged gratitude, US Navy, Great Lakes, Recruit Training Command on August 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Division 290 Ship 11 enters
Friday Morning at 0900 the Pass in Review ceremony at Great Lakes Recruit Training Command began and after the preliminary review of colors and a short film about life in Boot Camp we got our first look at the graduates. My nephew’s unit, Division 290 Ship 11 was the first to [...]
Posted in Navy, gratitude, military, tagged gratitude, Great Lakes, Navy, recruit training, US Navy on August 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thursday of this week will see me traveling to Great Lakes, Illinois. I haven’t been there since February 8, 1973. My nephew is due to Pass in Review. He’s been at Great Lakes Recruit Training Center since late June. Tom signed up on a delayed enlistment plan in January. Since then a young man I [...]
Posted in gratitude, tagged birthday, family, gratitude on August 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today is our daughter’s 21st birthday. Wow! Where did the last twenty-one years go? She came into our lives twenty-one years ago and at least in my case completely revised all of my assumptions about girls and women. She has gone from being cute to beautiful. She has her mother’s charm and beauty and my [...]
Posted in Navy, gratitude, tagged Gratefulness, gratitude, US Navy, Albany, Georgia on July 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday was the thirty-fifth anniversary of my father’s death. It’s a day that will always live in my memory. I was serving on active duty in the United States Navy and stationed at the Naval Air Station in Albany, GA. I was working the afternoon shift in the newborn nursery when I was summoned to [...]
Posted in Christianity, Mt. Irenaeus, Music, St. Bonaventure University, gratitude, prayer, tagged Amazon S3, contemplative, Franciscan, gratitude, Jungledisk, St. Bonaventure University on July 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This afternoon I had agreed to drive down to St. Bonaventure University and help a Franciscan friend with a computer I had donated to him. I had configured this Dell Inspiron equipped with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic with Star Office. Fr. Bob Struzynski, OFM is a very bright man and a wonderful [...]
Posted in GPS, Navy, gratitude, military, travel, tagged gratitude, US Navy on June 9, 2008 | No Comments »
301 Hazeltine
Today while I was waiting for Diane to finish shopping I used my GPS and found what used to be the United States Naval Reserve Center at 301 Hazeltine Avenue in Jamestown, New York. It was here that I came in June of 1972 to inquire about service in the United States Navy. It [...]
Posted in Fredonia, recreation, tagged basketball, gratitude on June 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Today I spent part of the afternoon watching my son and several of his friends take part in the Gus Macker Three-on-Three basketball tournament in Jamestown, New York. I’ve been watching Devin play in Macker’s for a number of years. He’s competing in the Top Men’s Division which is the toughest division of the [...]
Posted in Peace, Spiritual, Web 2.0, culture, gratitude, mindfulness, mystic, tagged activism, gratitude, kids making a difference on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Last week I had the privilege of attending an educational forum in our area. One of the presenters that I heard was the young lady who authors a blog called, Twenty-Five Days. I could not get over the heart and deep presence of the capacity for social justice in a person so young. I felt [...]
Posted in gratitude, tagged gratitude, travel, wedding anniversary on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
We spent the night in Breezewood, PA. after driving from Franklinville, NY enroute to Williamsburg, VA. We’re celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary this weekend. Twenty-five years and two children and the passage from a thirty year old to a fifty-five year old has occurred in what seems like half the time. Last night when we [...]
Posted in Catholic, Christian, Easter, Jesus, Mt. Irenaeus, gratitude, mystic, prayer, tagged contemplative, Easter Vigil, gratitude, Mt. Irenaeus on March 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I was running a bit late last night as I drove to Mt. Irenaeus for the Easter Vigil. We had company and one of them needed maps for a trip back to Rochester. Several maps from Google were needed before I could leave home for the trip to the Mountain. As I drove down Route [...]
