Thank you for every like, every comment, and every share of my posts. Your support and involvement means more than you’ll ever know. And the same holds true for those of you who anonymously read my posts. Hopefully, you’ve been able to find something useful in my mad ramblings that enriches your life.
I wish love, peace, joy, good health, and every blessing God may bestow upon you and yours in 2016 and beyond!
In gratitude,
Clay Rivers
Chapter 14: Christmas Is
The days after September 11, 2001, I sat riveted to the images of devastation on my television like the rest of the nation. The thought of flying across the country unnerved me, but when October 17 came, I boarded a plane at LAX with enough clothes to survive autumn in New York and Atlanta, and a December in Cleveland. En route to New York, I stopped in Orlando to drop off my dog, Jack, at my mother’s his a three-month vacation.
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99 Problems
If you’re living, you have, you are currently, or you will face problems, or as I like to call them, “challenges.” From newborns trying to find their way in a brand new world to teenagers battling with peer pressure and feeling misunderstood by everyone over eighteen to adults dealing with unexpected career changes or the loss of a loved one to seniors coping with the challenges of living in an aging body, no one leaves this world untouched by challenges of their own making or someone else’s. If anyone tells you otherwise, they’re delusional.
As a forty-eight-inch tall, black man, I know a thing or two about challenges. 3 Things I Know: Facing and Embracing Life’s Challenges deftly guides the reader through my unique life experiences, with which readers will readily identify, in discovering what works when confronted with challenges—and more importantly what doesn’t.
My social media activity has been bare bones of late, so I decided to suspend this week’s “Hey, Clay” letter and share what’s been going on. Here goes . . .
Hey Clay,
What advice can you give me to achieve a healthier mind, body & spirit balance in my life?
Hey, Clay.
I’m a little confused on the #blacklivesmatter movement. What is the message, and what do they want us to know about it. I have yet to receive a clear message on what it stands for. I know it has created spin offs like #alllivesmatter and #copslivesmatter. I know they want more policing of the police. What do they recommend we do to support them?
Hey, Clay.
This election season there’s so many candidates to choose from. It’s like they’re all saying the same thing. What do you think of Donald Trump?
Looking for the way home,
Dorothy Gale
Hey Clay,
I need your help navigating one of society’s emerging new awkward situations.
Hey, Clay.
I have always been very independent from a young age. I was the child that my parents were always proud of and boasted about. They still do to this day and tell everybody, “Our child is living the dream life, we are so proud.” Unfortunately something is missing. We have never made the transition from parent-child relationship to parent-adult relationship. I’m having issues with this.
