"Give It Up for Mr. Russell Graham"

 Madison Square Garden...

That's it. That's the blog.

Good week everyone! xo

Love,

T

VEGAS BABY!

So....

I can't even remember the start of the week. I do know that last week I decided to "do Vegas" - five year old style. WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN???

It means water slide hopping, water park hopping and David Copperfield. It means lazy river rides, frozen banana dipped in chocolate and fruity pebbles, Dippin' Dots, pizza, corn dogs and funnel cake. It means crazy fun memories and it also means I need another vacation.

:)

Wait a minute. I just remembered the beginning of the week. It was before Vegas... a water park in Connecticut. It started this way:

 

I have to post highlights.

Here's wishing you a fun week!

Love,

T

Crazy Good

 WHOOOOOOEEEEEE!

By now you probably know the awesome news! I'm honored beyond words to be in the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame's Class of 2022! There have been so many comments and congratulatory posts... I'm so grateful and glad to hear from everyone. It's going to take me a while to get through replying back to you all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 

Also this week - we had Russ home and the boy's last week of school. There were parties and bittersweet farewells to the school and the wonderful staff that saw us through his earliest years, first friends and the pandemic. There was excitement to see Daddy and transitions through more travel gigs, new school scheduling and supplies, and goodbye to our first apartment together (sold). We worked so hard that we decided a mini vacation was in order. 

We are about to embark on a new chapter. This week is all about taking a deep breath and appreciating all the good. 

Enjoy your week!

Love,

T

The Non-Blog

I'm here. It's just that there's a big announcement coming tomorrow (Tuesday) and I can't say anything yet.

Will post again tomorrow.

Love,

T 

Balance

The priest said that this particular gospel story was troublesome for him. It was about a man who had abundance and was called a fool for trying to store it and keep it for himself. He would die before his plans to rest easy came to fruition. 

While it's true that we do not know when our last day will be, accepting an inheritance or investing isn't a bad idea. We do need to make some kind of plan for our future. The priest explained that the point of the gospel was not that we should reject abundance, but that we should find balance. We need to allow possessions to serve us and others without permitting them to control us. 

He told a modern day, true story of a good samaritan - a wealthy man who remained down to earth and literally put his own life at risk to save others on a regular basis. He was rich in the ways of God (or Love) and his possessions did not shape him or prevent him from serving others. 

Part of the point was that we need to look past the surface to access deeper meaning. Superficially, the gospel seems to imply that possessions and retirement plans are bad. A closer look might reveal that having money was not the problem. The problem came when the money stopped the doing of good deeds and caused complacency. 

We should not want abundance for the purpose of resting in comfort and forgetting about the work to be done. We might use abundance to assist in our work. I saw an interesting segment on "intention" recently...

Wishing you a beautiful week...

Love,

T