Acceptance

Photo: Mr. Dickie - Blackwater Falls, WV

For everyone at some time there comes something for which there seems to be no reason and which defies explanation.  It is then that a man is faced with life's hardest battle - to accept when he cannot understand.  (William Barclay, The Letter To The Hebrews, p. 152)

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I maintained my interest in blogging throughout 2011.  I plan to continue posting to my four Google blogs in 2012 as time and interest dictates.  Here's a short recap of my blogging efforts.

• Mr. Dickie's Blog - 347 posts
• Arrow Prayers - 346 posts
• Henthorn Website Obits - 21 posts
• Henthorn Website News - 62 posts
• Total - 776 posts

Mr. Dickie

2 January 2012

Purposeful Forgetting

... the measure of a life is not in what is accumulated, but rather in what is given to others. (Dr. Wayne Dyer, Real Magic, p. 48)

Inventory your life and get it on purpose. (Dr. Wayne Dyer, Real Magic, p. 109)

Is your current situation "the result of purposeful forgetting?" (As Bill Sees It, p. 64)

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I worked on a project to add dates, in the yyyymmdd format, to the "Wills" I already posted to my Obituary blog. The idea is to add the date twice to each "Will" post, first, in the title and second, in the "label" which is used to index the item in the blog sidebar. Most of these "Wills" were available when I had a genealogy website on AOL. It's been a long time goal to make them available again on the Internet. I'm still adding more "Wills" to the blog. I expect to complete this project in another day or two.

Mr. Dickie
16/Mar/2010 7:50

I Don't Feel Like Blogging

Yesterday and today I just didn't feel like blogging to this blog or my Arrow Prayers blog. Instead I posted to my Obituary blog and did some work on the Bowie Seniors Computer Club website.

Only in the Storm

Only in the storm can you see the art of the real sailor; only on the battlefield can you see the bravery of a soldier. The courage of a simple person can be seen in how he copes with the difficult and dangerous situations in life. (Daniel Achinsky in A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy, 28 October)

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I'm enjoying looking at, and reading, blogs and genealogy websites that other people have created.

Some folks working on genealogy caution that it is not wise to count on funeral home or newspaper obituaries to always be available online. They suggest that it is a good idea to capture our own copies.

Mr. Dickie

Some Projects

I can change nothing but myself. Do I need changing? If things are going wrong - or seem to be - maybe it's because of the way I'm reacting to them. If I accept the fact that the principal source of my unhappiness is in me, I'll be giving myself a good reason to do something about me. It isn't easy - but the rewards are beyond reckoning! (One Day at a Time in Al-Anon, 3 August)

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Yesterday the two of us worked on the project to redo the large flowerbed in the front of the house. We bought twenty-four tan concrete blocks to put about the outside in a circle. We were nine blocks short of laying one course. It was just as well. I was a physical wreck by the time we placed the blocks we bought.

I discovered a way to quickly find my Google blog entries that don't have "labels." Once I realized that I could look at the listing of all of the blog entries to see which ones had "labels" I was able to quickly post the indexing information to all of the postings that needed them.

Yesterday I completed the project to upload the fourteen Wills to my Google Obits blog. This information hasn't been available on the Internet since AOL dropped website support in October 2008. Thanks to Google the information is once again on the Internet.

Mr. Dickie