Author Archives: Jim Gleason

Faithfulness is a word that has grown out of favor in our culture. We don’t expect our politicians to be faithful to their campaign promises. We don’t expect our celebrities to be faithful to their fans. We don’t expect sports teams to be faithful to their stars. Most people do expect their spouses to beContinue reading “Faithfulness”

What do you look forward to with excitement? Do you get in a frenzy expecting your favorite team to win the Super Bowl? Perhaps you are anticipating a new child or grandchild and that brings a smile to your face. Maybe you are looking forward to a soldier returning home from deployment. It could beContinue reading “Looking Forward”

I know people who can be called professional students. They have spent decades in the pursuit of knowledge. Many have achieved the highest levels of education, earning multiple masters degrees or doctorates. Their pursuit of knowledge has sometimes clouded their views of the real world as they ignored the realities surrounding them. To some degreeContinue reading “The Pursuit of Knowledge”

We had snow overnight and this morning. It made everything appear so pure and clean. It was beautiful. But it doesn’t take long to reveal the real landscape and ruin the beauty. Snow plows come along scooping not only the snow but the filth of the road onto sidewalks and lawns. Cars mush the snowContinue reading “New Snow”

Today, I had x-rays taken of my hip and neck. The doctor ordered them to make sure that there is no damage to the bones after my accident a week ago. The x-rays, of course, can give the doctor pictures of the bones. Doctors use other types of internal scans to examine our inward parts.Continue reading “High Resolution X-Rays”

It is impossible to know everything. Even if we could, would we want to? Would we want to know the secrets that friends and family members don’t tell us? Would we want to know the secrets that our elected officials don’t tell us? We may want to know the secrets that nature hides, but canContinue reading “Secret Things”

Each morning when I walk, I look up to the skies. I love to gaze upon the moon and stars. This morning was the first time in weeks that the sky was clear and I could see the multitude of stars. I cannot count them all and I certainly do not know the names ofContinue reading “What a Sight”

It’s a windy day today, with gusts up to 30 miles per hour. When I was out walking, going in one direction was a struggle, while going the other way was easy. Going against the wind was cold and almost discouraging. We all have people in our lives who slow us down and discouraged us.Continue reading “Winds of Encouragement”

It snowed a couple days ago. So everywhere I walked yesterday, I crunched through the snow. Then the sun melted some of the snow and the overnight cold created patches of ice. So I had to be careful where I stepped this morning. A spot could look like a safe place to step, but iceContinue reading “Slippery When Wet”

Overnight it snowed about three inches. So it was beautiful for my morning walk. I circled the same path four times. On the third or fourth path I noticed the tracks in the snow that I was making. The tracks got me thinking about the tracks, or legacies, that our lives leave for others. AreContinue reading “Tracks in the Snow”