Listen to “More than Enough” by Fred Smith My wife, Carol, was sleeping in the passenger seat as we drove past the exit sign for Tyler, Texas. It was 1977 and we were on our [...]
Listen to “The Good Commission” by Fred Smith Some blogs are diaries – personal and revealing by making you feel you have been invited into the interior of the author’s life. [...]
Listen to “On An Even Keel” by Fred Smith A friend asked me, “What do you think your best contribution will be? And for what would you like to be remembered?” I did not need [...]
Listen to “Do the Next Thing” by Fred Smith Now and then I host what Quakers call a Clearness Committee for an individual working their way through an issue about direction or [...]
Listen to “More” by Fred Smith Periodically, I think about full retirement and what that might mean. I asked one friend about it, and his response was, “Retire from what? You [...]
Listen to “The Family Farm” by Fred Smith I’ve had many conversations over the years with friends about the dangers of leaving wealth to children only to ruin them. It’s taken [...]
*There is no audio recording of the blog this week. Fred will be back next week! I suppose the unexamined life is not worth living may be right for the most part. However, is it possible [...]
Listen to “The Work of our Hands” by Fred Smith For two summers as a student I took a job in a canning factory. For nine hours every day I stood on a hard concrete floor beside [...]
Listen to “What Did You Bring Me?” By Fred Smith A big surprise for me when we moved to Tyler was how many people here travel all over the world. I expected a relatively small [...]
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