2025 Journal Notes

Staying Curious

    My 3 Daily Guidelines are: Staying Curious Being Amazed Sharing Moving Stories. Basically, that’s what I do every day.   I’ve never lost my curiosity. In addition to my membership at Calvary Baptist Church in Alexandria, I’m a card-carrying member of Church on the Levee, a homeless church that meets on Sunday afternoons. We gather under the Murray …

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 25

      SAT. JAN. 25 “GO FOR YOUR DEAMS WITH GREAT INTENSITY.” -Don Gray to his son John upon his graduation from East Beauregard in 1986. Lots of people,” as the poet and artist Austin Kleon puts it, “want to be the noun without doing the verb.” To make something great, what’s required is need. As in, I need …

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FIELD NOTES: Thursday, January 23, 2025

  FIELD NOTES  Our Journey Page for today Thursday, January 23   Today, I’m speaking at a senior adult lunch at my church, Calvary Baptist Church. I’ll be sharing snippets from my latest release, Where I Come From: Journeys, Seasons, and Quarters Lessons from the Seed Tree Professor Cavanaugh’s Best Lecture Thought on the beautiful art of forgiveness: “3 Fallouts” …

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