I've been reading about getting to gratitude lately and how remapping our minds helps get us there. In essence.... if we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change. Everyday positive experiences have the power to change our brains—and therefore our life—for the better. But, here is the challenge....Our brain …
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I'm Don Ferguson, I live in the coastal New England town of Newburyport Massachusetts and blog to track memories, sports adventures, create stories and to pursue interesting ideas.
I’m feeling gratitude today…..and it feels so awesome.
I'm feeling grateful today and it is supercharging my day. Gratitude is that thankful appreciation for what we already have or will receive, whether those things are physical or intangible. I believe when we experience gratitude we seem to consciously acknowledge the goodness in our lives, making it abundantly enough. It somehow magnifies that goodness we feel …
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MoCA is the Museum of Artsy Fartsy
Have you ever wondered where the term "Artsy Fartsy" came from? The etymology of the term comes from the Latin (ars) or Art and the word Fart which is a pejorative (to express contempt or disapproval, or something stinky you emit from your arse). While touring the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in North …
The Widowmaker Came Knocking This Week….
The Widowmaker came knocking at our the barracks door this week, and she went away empty handed. She's never welcome here nor anywhere for that matter, because she brings an all but 12% certainty of death to anyone that she visits outside a hospital. For those of you that are not aware..... a widow-maker is a …
Ideas With Sentences In Stacks
There is a place in Cambridge Ma where bright ideas wait for us like prisoners awaiting release of sentence among steal gray, shelved cells. We served as parole board granting release for behaviors be they good or bad, delightful or scary, funny or tragic, any or all which serves our desire. Before the renovation in …
Strangers ….They are just friends waiting to happen
Yesterday I received a text message asking if I was available to host a bikepacker traveling up the east coast to Portland Maine. The request came from a bikepacker who was on the last part of a cross country bikepacking trip from his home in California to DC and up to Portland maine. He found …
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Filling The Hole – 911 Memorial
It is impossible for me to stand at the 911 Memorial in NY City and not be overwhelmed with emotion, even 20 years later. The memorial is a powerful tribute to those who suffered and died on 911. I've never met them, but I can feel their presence and hear their whispers. The voices are …
Sharing A Bathroom With My Daughter
My Future Fantasy Zen Oasis Bathroom - This is a picture of my fantasy bathroom. My real bathroom is pictured below.... In less than a week my youngest daughter will be dancing herself away to college leaving me to enjoy a bathroom all to myself. I must admit, it has been challenging maintaining the demarcation …
To Live On In The Hearts….
To live in the hearts of those we leave behind ...is not to die It's been a trip we never wanted to make but somewhere in the back of our minds we knew the time was drawing near. Cancer had taken an all Marine Boxer more than eight years and many rounds of Chemo to …
New Englanders like big cans…
I was shopping in "The Basket" (DeMoulas Super Markets) last week for our families groceries. As I reached for a few cans of B&M Baked beans I noticed an old favorite that I'd not seen for years. B&M Brown Bread in that Big Giant Can and I couldn't help but grab one. It still comes plain …
Passing Grief Towards Gratitude
Over the passed week I've been grieving the loss of a bother Marine and longtime mentor Jamie Page. In 2019 in Boston when he came to say his goodbyes in person to me and a group of his buddy Marines from USMC Quantico VA. As old Marines do we drank, ate, laughed, told stories from …
The Best Seat In Town
Photo by Allan Mas from Pexels Back In The Day... There are many advantages to growing up in the city, but one of my favorite is often overlooked and undervalued... that was the pleasure of sitting on the front porch or in some houses the stoop. During a time when creature comforts like television, air conditioners and internet …
Whirlybirds
Five year olds are really very funny. Grandpa jokes, bathroom humor, funny songs and stories make them laugh. I often wonder what they’ll be like when they grow up. Will they still want to be as silly or will growing up mean laughing less? I'm guessing it has a lot to do with what we …
Cambridge Massachusetts : A Ticket To The Greatest Show on Earth.
In life we tend to focus on the exceptional events that happen. In fact the news is so much about the exceptional, we tend to miss the ordinary all together. Growing up in Cambridge Massachusetts I had a ticket to "the best show on earth". I spent much of my teenage days roaming and nesting …
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Ever miss sitting together on the sofa watching your favorite shows?
If you miss the good old days when families sat together to laugh, cry, comment or to joke about their favorite TV shows you have to check out Gogglebox on Facebook watch. Gogglebox is a series where regular people are filmed in their own homes while watching the highest-rated shows on British television. Each week, …
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No Lady Leprechauns?….Maybe that’s a good thing?
Photo by Steven Hylands from Pexels It's true there are no lady leprechauns.... The History of Irish Fairies,' book states that there is no record in Irish folklore of leprechauns having a female counterpart in their ranks or even a solid record of how they procreate or reproduce. I'm thinking that there might have been a good reason to support …
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The Irish Racing Form
I woke up one morning to find my mother at the kitchen table, sipping coffee and browsing through our local newspaper the Cambridge Chronicle. What cha reading Ma? I asked... I'm checking out the Irish Racing Form" she replied. Are you betting the dogs? I never knew you to bet on the dogs... I'm reading …
The Wild Beast Within
"Every Man Has A Wild Beast Within Him" Frederick the Great This week I have become a predator. I'm loosing sleep as my mind is in a constant search for signs of my prey morning, noon and night. We predators are wild animals that hunt, or prey on, other animals. We need food to live …
I’m Rubber Your Glue
Ever say the words...."I'm rubber, you're glue. Everything bounces off me and sticks to you" ....Or what about "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me"? The clever replies to an insults or criticisms we used as kids are referred to as a riposte. We used them most often when …
The Laundress
I never knew her name. I only knew her as the laundress lady. She took in laundry from those who were willing to pay to have someone else do their laundry versus doing it themselves. How is doing someone else's laundry even a job? I often wondered to myself. I also wondered a lot about …
The Coffee Angel
Photo Credit: Austin Wade I love coffee... have ever since I first started drinking it before school in the morning with a honey dipped or chocolate frosted donut from Freddy's Cafe on Magazine Street in Cambridge. It's more than the taste of good coffee that I love. I love the aroma, the warmth of the …
Mistakes And Regret
Ever make a mistake that came back to haunt you just about every day of your entire life? I did, and I made it in high school. This mistake has stuck with like a wool sweater on a 90 degree day. When I tell you what I did, it may not seem like such a …
Positive Energy Shifting
I imagine we all felt a drain of positive energy over 2020 which was unavoidable considering the circumstances. I heard a quote today though, that has me wondering if the amount negative energy I experienced was as truly as unavoidable as I'd thought. The quote by Albert Einstein left me wondering if it was more …
Simplifying Positive Thinking
Positive Thinking... When you wake up each morning which side of the daily menu do you choose? The good side or the bad side? How about Today's Special... It's Our Karma Plate ..you get a big serving of what you deserve! My new favorite research focus is to study the concept of Positive Thinking. I …
The Scent Of A Man
I bet most people have heard of the movie Scent of A Woman staring Al Pacino... but have you heard that there is also a Scent of a Man? It's true (although it's not a movie) men produce human sex pheromones in their armpit sweat and hair which is called androstadienone (AN-dro-STAY-dee-eh-noan). Scientists have shown …
The Bow Legged Blogger 