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It’s never easy when you take the road (or the trail) less traveled.I wanted to send a reminder out to all of us down in...
08/31/2026

It’s never easy when you take the road (or the trail) less traveled.

I wanted to send a reminder out to all of us down in the dirt, riding in a saddle or holding down a cubicle dreaming about the above and trying to do the right thing-I see you. I hope you see can see yourself.

Say this to yourself as you start the week. Save it for when you need the reminder.

Too much of the time we don’t stop to really give ourselves credit when we’re just working to get through the day. Give yourself the pat on your back you deserve.

You’re doing good and I’m proud of you.

Don’t confuse activity, with achievement.
08/29/2026

Don’t confuse activity, with achievement.

You may not control what is disappearing from the world, but you do control whether it disappears through you.
08/28/2026

You may not control what is disappearing from the world, but you do control whether it disappears through you.

If you want to achieve something in your life, you have to do the frightening thing and try it without a guarantee of su...
08/27/2026

If you want to achieve something in your life, you have to do the frightening thing and try it without a guarantee of success.

It’s bound to be clunky. You’re going to fail at first and you will most likely be humbled.

There’s nothing wrong with that.

The term “legend” is thrown around a lot, but I don’t think it is apt enough for Dolly Parton.Business woman, philanthro...
08/26/2026

The term “legend” is thrown around a lot, but I don’t think it is apt enough for Dolly Parton.

Business woman, philanthropist, artist, storyteller and wife to lucky man named Carl Dean.

In an interview years back Dolly was asked about her biggest mistakes, to which she replied “I haven’t made any. I try to look at my life as a series of events, and what other people would call ‘a mistake,’ I wouldn’t. Sometimes, what would look like to be my biggest mistakes turn out to be my biggest blessings.”

For this and a multitude of other reasons, I have long admired Dolly, her courage and her intelligence along with her talent that she wrote “I Will Always Love You” and “Jolene” with in THE SAME DAY.

She lived her life on purpose. As we should all aspire to.

08/25/2026

Dolly Parton died today at 80.

She once said, “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”

That was Dolly. She knew exactly what people saw, got there first and made the joke before anyone else could.

The towering hair, rhinestones and exaggerated glamour were part of the show. But the show never seemed to confuse her about who she was or where she came from.

I don’t know that Dolly would have called it the Code of the West, but she seemed to live by some of its plainest terms. Remember where you came from, make good on what you’ve been given, and when your people are hurting, show up.

In the early ’90s, when nearly a third of the children in her home county weren’t finishing school, Dolly offered every seventh and eighth grader $500 if they graduated and if the buddy they chose graduated too. The dropout rate for those classes fell to 6 percent.

When wildfire took more than a thousand homes in the Smokies, her My People Fund put cash directly into the hands of displaced families for six months. She funded research into childhood infectious diseases, helped provide a permanent home for injured bald eagles and built a foundation that began with local scholarships before sending hundreds of millions of books to children around the world.

She could have left behind a famous name.

Instead she left behind children who learned to read, students who stayed in school, families who got back on their feet and institutions built to carry the work forward.

The rhinestones were part of the show.

The generosity was the woman.

Rest easy, Dolly.

Dolly Parton died today at 80.She once said, “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”That was Dolly. She knew exact...
08/25/2026

Dolly Parton died today at 80.

She once said, “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”

That was Dolly. She knew exactly what people saw, got there first and made the joke before anyone else could.

The towering hair, rhinestones and exaggerated glamour were part of the show. But the show never seemed to confuse her about who she was or where she came from.

I don’t know that Dolly would have called it the Code of the West, but she seemed to live by some of its plainest terms. Remember where you came from, make good on what you’ve been given, and when your people are hurting, show up.

In the early ’90s, when nearly a third of the children in her home county weren’t finishing school, Dolly offered every seventh- and eighth-grader $500 if they graduated—and if the buddy they chose graduated too. The dropout rate for those classes fell to 6 percent.

When wildfire took more than a thousand homes in the Smokies, her My People Fund put cash directly into the hands of displaced families for six months. She funded research into childhood infectious diseases, helped provide a permanent home for injured bald eagles and built a foundation that began with local scholarships before sending hundreds of millions of books to children around the world.

She could have left behind a famous name.

Instead she left behind children who learned to read, students who stayed in school, families who got back on their feet and institutions built to carry the work forward.

The rhinestones were part of the show.

The generosity was the woman.

Rest easy, Dolly.

It doesn’t matter what time of day somebody stops by my stepdad’s place, or how busy he is. He’ll ask them in for a cup ...
08/25/2026

It doesn’t matter what time of day somebody stops by my stepdad’s place, or how busy he is. He’ll ask them in for a cup of coffee.

There’s almost always something that needs doing, especially in the West. Work waiting to be finished. Something that could probably use your attention.
So stopping what you’re doing for somebody carries a little weight.

It’s a way of telling them that, for the moment, they’re more important than whatever you were doing before they arrived.

They’ll chew the fat, talk about the price of diesel and complain about the politicians. But that’s not really the point.

Coffee gives them a reason to sit there and keep each other company.

The West has always had a reputation for being stoic. That gets mistaken for coldness sometimes. But not everybody shows their care by talking about it.

My grandpa’s moving company had a Driver’s Room where the men played cards, smoked ci******es and drank stale coffee out of Styrofoam cups. I smile every time I think about the cloud of blue smoke hanging over that room, and all the laughing and teasing that happened over games of Euchre.

There are ways to be there for one another without having to make much of a production out of it.

Sometimes you just pour another cup of joe.

We have more ways to reach one another now than we ever have. We can keep up with people across the country and know what’s happening in their lives without ever sitting in the same room.
And that isn’t nothing.

But seeing somebody and making yourself available to them aren’t quite the same thing.

A gathering place asks a little more of us. You have to show up. You have to give your time. You have to leave enough room in the conversation for somebody else to change where it was going.

Maybe that’s what I keep seeing in these old photographs.

Not just coffee shops, diners or a version of the past that looked better than it really was. Not even nostalgia.

Just people making room in the day for one another.

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