Roy Bowen

Beginning Positive & Meaningful: John Cena may be known to you for “cow commercials,” movies, or WWE wrestling. You may not know John Cena has been the “face” of Make-A-Wish, fulfilling Wishes of children, making their lives better, and their days of being family fuller. Cena has fulfilled 650 children’s…

What are 1 or 3 parts of your once “normal world” do you believe you will not see or hear again? One for me would be new cars to open doors, test drive, with sales staff all around. A second might be “there is rain and water for all of…

Queen Elizabeth is the for me, and most of England, is the only Queen I have known. Black & white TV, a Queen following the established rituals, Diana not her finest moment, Netflix series, now YouTube 24/7. ** FAST Company and Tix Toc are reporting the trend of “quiet quitting,”…

 Richard Rohr and Harvey Cox reminds us Jesus taught mostly by story…stories about weddings, banquets, farmers, families, and business. 35% of the first 3 Gospels teach life and faith wisdom through the telling of stories. My Walking Prayers are my attempt to do the same. ** In a Fiction read,…

A successful New Mexico friend wants to continue to stretch, to grow her business. But, also wanting more.  Observation: Most of us were educated and taught the life formula “Do  –  Have  – Be. That model loses meaning at some point at some age, somewhere in the life of family…

Beginning Positive: 988 is now the national number to call for traditional Suicide Prevention. 988 is still in initial roll out, promising increased response consistency and accessibility. ** In past weeks, 3 raccoons have visited back garden nightly. Turning over birdbaths, digging up plants, more. This AM we had our…

Beginning With Positive: I am humbled to have read the print book “We Are Not Here To Be Bystanders, A Memoir by Lindas Sarsour. At age 19, she began wearing the hijab, traditional head covering of Muslim women. She writes, “I am a first-generation Palestinian American Muslim.” Her memoir of…