feelings Archives • DAVID G

DIFFERENCE MAKER, THE RECIPE

A difference maker is often the last to know what’s up. Who has ever been to a funeral or memorial and heard strangers talk about the deceased in terms so glowing it sounds like nobody you know. And you’ve known them most of your life. How does that happen?

LIFETIME MISTAKE TO CHANGE?

Have you made a lifetime mistake? Better yet, have you done it quietly so no one would notice? Good job. Now, since we’re all getting down the road with less lifetime in front than in back, in theory, you want to change, you want to fix that mistake. Good luck.

HURT FEELINGS FOR HALF THE COUNTRY?

My hurt feelings have an outlet, and I’m so glad. So is everyone else, which is a clue on how do deal with disappointment. Find an outlet so you won’t be haunted the rest of your life by the importance you place in other people’s opinions. Of you. Someone’s feelings about you could hurt yours? […]

MY MOM THE MOTHER IN LAW

After a recent mother in law conversation I ended up disappointing myself. Why? Because I took the easy way out with the customary role, traditional values, and ducked the whole thing. Not that I don’t have plenty to say about mothers in law. My dates introduced me to the moms and dads more than a […]

HEALTH RECONCILIATION FOR THE COMEBACK WIN

What is health reconciliation but being able to look in the mirror and acknowledge who is looking back? If it sounds easy, then you’ve never been down the dark road of reconciliation, health or otherwise. The important thing is finding peace along the way. You may get better, you may not, but health reconciliation settles […]

WHAT HURTS? HEMINGWAY SAID WRITE ABOUT IT

What hurts? Go ahead and tell me. This is a safe place. It doesn’t have to be a big hurt to matter. All the hurts add up, after all, then what do you get? What happens? I think you know what happens. I’ll go first on what hurts to pave the way.

FEELINGS MATTER, A REVIEW OF WHY ON SAUVIE ISLAND

Feelings matter when you see yourself in a forty year old reflection. In the image I’m looking through a window with another window shining on the other side. Every year for decades a crew would go to Sauvie Island and prepare a historical house for the upcoming season. Every room was cleaned, inventoried, and filled […]

TIGARD OREGON SAYS “GREATNESS IS HATELESS”

The Tigard Oregon Tigers faced the Newberg Tigers. Tiger vs Tiger football in Tigard has a snappy sound to it. But it was Tiger football and everything else, as it turns out. The everything else part was, and is, a local/state/regional/national/international/ global/universal story on a larger canvas. That large.

DIFFERENCE MAKER, THE RECIPE

REAL THINGS THAT GET MORE REAL, LIKE FEELINGS

LIFETIME MISTAKE TO CHANGE?

HURT FEELINGS FOR HALF THE COUNTRY?

TUMOR REPORT: MIKE KELLY GETS THE COOKIE

MY MOM THE MOTHER IN LAW

HEALTH RECONCILIATION FOR THE COMEBACK WIN

WHAT HURTS? HEMINGWAY SAID WRITE ABOUT IT

FEELINGS MATTER, A REVIEW OF WHY ON SAUVIE ISLAND

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