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Roy’s Sunday Letter for August 20, 2023
** We, of the Southwest, have learned a new weather term, Heat Dome. Continual Heat Domes of 105 -110 are too ongoing. The heat limits the outdoors and prolongs the indoors which challenges our energy, creativity, and personal balance. Fort Worth loves concrete and new construction. The cooling green of grass and trees are being…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for August 6, 2023
** Two Words Beginning with A: We are at our best as an individual, family and nation, when we Allow other cultures, values, and faiths to become part of our true selves. Acceptance of others, showing loving kindness, will increase and add to the health of our hearts and our spirits. ** Two I Fail…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for July 23, 2023
Roy’s Sunday Letter will return in August. I have benefitted from the mental and keyboard July rest. I am talking to Beth about what to continue, something of interest to add, and making sure I give you, my readers, the very best of me, and our common world we live within together. Thank you dear…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for July 16, 2023
Roy is stepping away from Sunday Letter for the month of July, returning in August. For regular Sl readers, what do you like best about the SL’s you have received and read?? What about the SL could be refreshed, something new, added to what you have received and read? I am asking you, my readers,…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for July 9, 2023
After 159 Sunday Letters I am takin a break for month of July A time to refresh, read, write stories, and look around to whats next. August will be here for us all soon. Roy
Roy’s Sunday Letter for July 2, 2023
I am taking a July break from composing and sending forth The Sunday Letter. The SL began as friends wanted to know how Beth and I were adjusting to our Apri, 2020 decision to return to Fort Worth from our days in Amarillo and Santa Fe. There have been 159 Sunday Letters, never missing a…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for June 25, 2023
** We have intentionally planted to attract bees and butterflies. Google says the butterflies have a life-span of two to four weeks, some less or more. Accessible and available nectar is vital. Thank you to the summers’ butterflies for blessing us with your beauty and grace. ** Philanthropy journals are reporting a 25% decline in…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for June 18, 2023
** Why I listen to jazz: A jazz group will begin together; then, players will drop back, others step up. Jazz presents the whole as well as the individual, all flowing together. To me, this is why I miss Tuesdays at 9 staff meetings. Seven at the table, the individual reporting, ending with the whole…
Roys Sunday Letter fot June 11,2023
** We now have two hummingbirds coming to our feeder. Three or four would be a normal summer count. Global warming, decline of natural habitat? ** Good writing from a Fiction book: “She (he) was too young and had no stories or depth of life to reply upon.” An additional comment from recent presentation on…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for June 4, 2023
** Saturday, I joined others around Texas and across the US by wearing Orange, as our way of standing against gun violence and harm to innocents. There were speakers, panels, storytelling, and education, and, of course, Tshirts. Across town there was the monthly Gun Show with over-flow lines and parking. ** Interview with researcher/author of…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for December 3, 2023
This Sunday Letter is about Encouragement and Support to those young and those not so much so, those who know loneliness, those surrounded by family, those connected and not, and lastly, to readers who find comfort in the Sunday Letter. My life, our lives are a mix, a blend of the old and the new….
Roy’s Sunday Letter for November 26, 2023
** Beth has served two years as the part-time Volunteer Coordinator for Project 4031, a nonprofit providing care and support for hospice patients and their families. She has helped to develop the volunteer program, helped trained volunteers, and work with Nicole and Kristina to begin this important part of the Mission of this wonderful agency….
Roy’s Sunday Letter for November 19, 2023
This Sunday Letter is to Encourage, to Support each of us to engage, connect, and find the right social context to live open, fulfilling lives with partners, family, and friends both near and far. As a culture and broader society, we are strengthened by a sense of the Sacred in our lives. The Sacred may…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for November 12, 2023
** Thank you for your good comments on the Sunday Letter for the Holiday Season. Concerns were shared for younger children facing the US and international violence/war and then the marketing messages of Happy Thanksgiving & Holidays. The same is true for elders wondering is the world they knew is still safe. Maintain your seasonal…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for November 5, 2023
This is my first Encouragement Sunday Letter. I am writing about the November – December holiday season. I choose preparing for the events, foods, shopping, and gatherings of the holiday season because this has been annual struggle for me. What I know about pressured or stressful events is to stay ahead of decisions, calendars, and…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for October 29, 2023
** With this Sunday Letteer I return to a weekly Sunday Letter. The rotation will be a traditional Sunday Letter today, next Sunday, a half page of Encouragement & Support. My hope is to provide each reader and friend good reasons to Open, Click, and enjoy each Sunday Letter. ** Our favorite breakfast place in…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for October 15, 2023
** Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood have taken a national leadership role with Habitat for Humanity. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have been Habitat leaders and sponsors for decades, now not able to continue. Good to know Habitat will continue to be responsive with families with a need for stable housing, this good legacy continues in…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for October 1, 2023
** President Biden has established a new federal office, Preventing Gun Violence. Two simple answers: 1) Stop making and selling non-sport rifles and handguns. 2) Establish education and problem-solving training for individuals and groups in schools and community centers. ** “Bargain Block” is a home renovation program on Home & Garden TV. Evan and Keither…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for September 17, 2023
September 17 is 3rd Sunday for the Sunday Letter. Remember 1st and 3rd Sunday Letters in 2023. ** Daily life in the Southwest is not always easy. We learned a new weather term, Heat Dome bringing 4 months of high heat and dry land. This week fall rains and overcast skies have many people smiling,…
Roy’s Sunday Letter for September 2, 2023
** Netflix Movie Recommendation: Mr. Church — Eddie Murphy — Dramatic role, not comedy. Mr. Church becomes the cook for a young family, and then a guide over decades. The young daughter grows into adulthood and (the always there) Mr. Church ages as well. Excellent script. ** Mini Interview: Edith, 81, told me her granddaughter…