by Art Nicklaus | Jan 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
January 13 This is my first blog post in a while, because as I hope you know, I am posting daily for this year on Facebook and Instagram. I’m going through a virtue a week for 52 weeks, and tomorrow will finish off the 2nd virtue of Compassion. For those of...
by Art Nicklaus | Dec 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
I invite you to join me during 2022 to explore, consider, and put into practice the fifty-two virtues in my book “Little Book of Virtues.” I will start January 1st with the virtue of “Authenticity” and spend a week going deeper into being a...
by Art Nicklaus | Dec 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Grandson Caleb Wilson, who would have been about Marty’s age… I first came acrosss this true story by Diane Rayner about her son Marty years ago when we lived up in Skagit County. I have read it aloud at Christmas gatherings a number of times since, and it...
by Art Nicklaus | Dec 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
1975, Rathskellers, Moscow ID True confession: I’m a drummer. A very out-of-practice drummer. But at my peak…I was a mediocre drummer! I had a brother who was a child prodigy, a cousin who was a famous rock star (in the 60’s), a talented father who...
by Art Nicklaus | Dec 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Grandsons Fred and Julio You might get tired of me hammering home this point, but it’s so important! If you are a Virtues giant giving Jesus a run for his money in regard to holiness, great! But if being virtuous seems just way too overwhelming, I will say it...
by Art Nicklaus | Dec 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Julee and I watched a new “Prime” movie last night called “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.” Based on a true story, it was a very quirky movie, but we enjoyed it immensely. The main character, Louis, struggles greatly at fitting in to the...
by Art Nicklaus | Nov 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Guitarist and recording artist Joe Walsh, then and now “We are all addicted to our own habitual way of doing anything, our own defenses, and, most especially, our patterned way of thinking, or how we process reality.” Richard Rohr I have been a bit obsessed with...
by Art Nicklaus | Nov 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Bill Murray, in his “sailing” scene from one of my favorite movies “What About Bob.” Someone I know and love refers to themselves from time to time as the “Black Sheep of the Family.” I know this person well, and they are NOT any...
by Art Nicklaus | Nov 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
I love this poem by Jane Kenyon and the many virtues it illustrates: perspective, wisdom, gratitude, awareness and so on: I got out of bedon two strong legs.It might have beenotherwise. I atecereal, sweetmilk, ripe, flawlesspeach. It mighthave been otherwise.I took...
by Art Nicklaus | Nov 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
This photo of Julee on an obviously old Roman era bridge was taken in October 2010 as we walked the Portuguese route of the Camino de Santiago. To “increase our Virtues bandwidth,” we must spend some time contemplating and practicing the virtues. The...
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