Kathleen Thompson
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Above and Beyond
Dear Dad, A note to you in heaven. I think of you often as my experiences bring your wisdom to mind. Sometimes life imposes current challenges in my life that I would have sworn you had already firmly taken care of with grace and honor before you left this world. For instance, your service as an officer and a gentleman in the United States Navy during WWII is a memory of you that comes to my mind presently. You and Mom were part of the “Greatest Generation,” a generation that came together and saved our world and democracy. I wish you were here now to share that experience with our country for I feel it may be currently on the edge of a cliff. While I know our country’s history, I regret not asking you questions when you were alive about your personal experiences during your time in the service. I wish you were here now to share those experiences from those days to inform and educate the public. Your life story would enlighten and give greater understanding to those who need to widen their lens. You would help people to see the big picture from a historical perspective so that lessons do not have to be repeated. You would be a voice of reason just as you were in my life.
By Kathleen Thompsonabout a year ago in Humans
Oprah Takes Her Audience to Australia
There is nothing like feeling the joyful anticipation of an audience of 302 people waiting for Oprah to reveal a prize trip that she would bestow upon all of us: a celebration of the first show of her last season of the Oprah Winfrey Show.
By Kathleen Thompson2 years ago in Wander
Release, Create, Sleep, Repeat
Every New Year I choose a word. A word to guide me. After the last two tumultuous years, I am choosing a word to remind me of being in synch. A word that doesn’t suggest anything close to upheaval for my mind or body. I am choosing the word FLOW to be my mainstay. I am creating and trusting in a flow that is manageable and within my domain. I will make time for my callings and my responsibilities. There is both time to exert my energy and time to reboot my battery with a power nap.
By Kathleen Thompson4 years ago in Journal
Higher Ground
Fifty-eight-year-old Randy Whitehall got his nickname “Derby” by placing a $300 trifecta bet at the Kentucky Derby horse race thirty years ago. A horse named “Higher Ground” was the winner. Finishing second was “Dancing Kat,” with the final odds at 33-1. The horse finishing third, named “Rye Toast, was an even bigger longshot at 55-1, making the trifecta a record payout. Derby won a small fortune, and then found investors willing to take a chance on him to start his company called “Odds on Favorite Productions.” Since founding his company, he had produced formula movies that became box office smashes, with very few “flops” and generated millions in revenue thereby making his shareholders extremely happy. Derby wasn’t always crazy about the movies that his company produced, but felt he knew what themes best played out on the big screen to a paying public, all based on what had worked before. But then he met Lia Summers. She was a forty-year-old fledgling writer who walked into his office with less writing experience than most who had preceded her, but she held a confidence that was both engaging and intimidating to him.
By Kathleen Thompson4 years ago in Humans
