Wishing you all a Merry Christmas or simply a great weekend if you don’t celebrate Christmas, either way, hope all is going well with you all.

Merry Christmas, Everyone!
Tony
Finding Subjects Podcast
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas or simply a great weekend if you don’t celebrate Christmas, either way, hope all is going well with you all.
Merry Christmas, Everyone!
Tony
Finding Subjects Podcast
I will put a short podcast episode up either today or tomorrow, just a quick hello to you all. Thanks for being here. Have a great day!
Tony
Finding Subjects Podcast
Last nights sunset as we contemplated the news of the death of a very close friend…
News helicopters overhead, news van on side of the road. Prayers to all those involved.
I awoke this morning and for that I am very grateful! I’m thinking you are thinking the same? Great to be here, just want to say hello.
The question I am asking this week on Finding Subjects Podcast is…
Who would you like to be stuck in an elevator with and who would you not want to be stuck with, why, and what would you want to discuss with them?
The person you choose can be anyone, dead or alive.
I only use first names in the replies when I read them.
Please type your replies below.
Thank you in advance for participating!
Tony
Finding Subjects Podcast
Watching the sun come up this morning and I just wanted to say hello to you and to have a nice day!
It’s a quick five minute message!!
Up all night…sleep all day?
Tried to sleep but decided instead to make a quick podcast and say hello to you all!
When the sun came up I took a walk in the front yard, leaves are falling all around, temperatures beginning to feel fall-like, feeling good, feeling motivated, feeling inspired.
Going through some more photographs of our recent trip I came across this one.
My wife walked up to the pizza place we couldn’t find all week. Seems we drove past the sign numerous times and each time missed, and suddenly there is was, here at Pelican Bay on Jackson Lake.
And as she walked over to pick up our order, I walked down to the waters edge. Honestly I could have stayed here for a long time.
‘Serenity Now’ I kept thinking in my head, the Season 9, episode 3 show from Seinfeld where Georges dad keeps saying ‘serenity now, serenity now…’ is hilarious.
But this scene…I felt like I was staring at a painting.
It’s moments like this I talk about often on the podcast, being mindful of the moment, taking time to live in the present and appreciate the little things…like this serene scene…
Yesterday I took a walk into the woods along a trail I sometimes go to. It was quiet, nothing but insects chirping, birds tweeting, the sound of water trickling off in the distance, leaves falling…it was a great disconnect.
And suddenly a thought came upon me as I stood there for a moment, a memory of a podcast some months back, ‘Is God Real’ and then the follow up episode ‘God Is Real’ and how I stated that in everything I see around me, God is present…and how with so much going on in the world it is incredibly hard to even think of God being present in such turmoil, such negativity surrounding us all.
Wyoming and Montana are beautiful places as is Idaho. I remember a few instances of taking early morning walks with my camera as my wife slept, heading into the woods and thinking about the large omnivores that live there; Grizzly bears, Black bears…and yet I still walked…and I reminded myself I had no bear spray and what I was doing could be considered reckless, and simultaneously I felt very alive, in the moment, mindful of the situation.
Disconnececting to connect is something I used to do often, and sort of got away from it with the advent of Covid and everything crazy that accompanied that, this time, people stressed.
These situations are not over. Not certain if they ever will be. But I think now more than ever it’s important we have some private time to ourselves just to recharge, be it on a park bench, practicing photography, exercising, walking in the woods as I am currently now doing, or just sitting on the banks of a lake and staring at serenity before us, as I did in the photograph above.
Serenity now…Serenity now…
Have a great day!
Episode 132 is now available. You can listen on this website or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Thank you for being here, and have a great day!
Tony
Finding Subjects Podcast