• TGU on success

    Monday, April 12, 2021 6:50 a.m. All right, guys, open for business. Shall we talk more about success? Or shall we address [my friend] Louis’ question about how I should (can) use the material in my journals? Let’s continue about success, I think. Yes, because it is timely, because it applies to many besides yourself,…

  • Papa arrives

    And, speaking of “Papa,” did you ever see such a “Proud Papa” look? But, that’s how I feel. From June 2012, when it sort of announced itself to me, to today, when I get to hold it in my hand for the first time, is not the usual nine months that a prospective father waits,…

  • Success as a combination of motives

    Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:50 a.m. My friend Louis says I am so private as to be downright secretive. If that is so, I guess the remedy is to open up about things I feel are my business and nobody else’s. But how do you know? Being very private, I feel like the amount of…

  • TGU on how to phrase questions

    Friday, April 16, 2021 4:20 a.m. Years ago, back before I went off to school, in the year after high school when I worked in factories, I was a member of the Book of the Month Club. One of the books I bought, that I have still, was an anthology of short stories put together…

  • Circles of influence

    Sunday, April 18, 2021 Last night I was thinking that you could measure the flow of individuals in and out of your life by creating a simple graphic and placing each name where it belonged. Theoretically this would show you who you knew at what times of your life. It might remind you of relationships…

  • TGU on how to use old journals

    Sunday, April 18, 2021 4:10 a.m. While I wait for inspiration on how to bring Papa’s Trial to people’s attention, let’s turn to the question Louis posed last week, about how I can use the material to be found in my journals. He specifically wanted me to ask you, and I think it’s a good…

  • TGU on listening

    Sunday, April 18, 2021 8:15 p.m. Going through old journals reminds me of things long forgotten, overlain by other things. But this entry could have been written for all of us today, particularly those still learning to trust talking to guidance: [Monday, February 12, 1996 [My friends, you are calling? [We are. Isn’t it interesting…

  • TGU on choosing our paths

    Monday, April 19, 2021 4:25 a.m. Re-reading The Making of the President 1960 after all these years is as interesting as rereading Schlesinger was. I was, I suppose, no more than 19 when I read it, still full of anguish. I would have been interested primarily in the story of how JFK struck for power.…

  • True then, true now

    Tuesday, April 20, 2021 7 a.m. Some things never change, or let’s say, they don’t change unless we change, and even then, they come around again as another turn on the spiral. This from my journal of April 5, 1996 probably applies to a lot of people besides me: [April 5, 1996 [Gentlemen, any words…

  • TGU on faith in life

    Wednesday, April 21, 2021 10 a.m. I see I was losing perspective. I am diagnosed with a couple of ailments, one of them cancerous tumors, and I continue calmly with my life, because I trust life, and the situation calls for me to just live, trusting, and do whatever common-sense things the doctors prescribe. But…