Mike reads “Gratitude”

REPOSTED FROM 2020: Had a snowed-in Easter with our little family of four. Kinda redundant, to be snowed in during a quarantine. Anyways, we had a good day, a good evening, now the fire’s banked, and having just tromped out through the white stuff and back to lock down the chicken coop, I’m gonna call it a night. I hadn’t recorded anything yet, so I’m going to re-post the recording of the time I opened up Roughneck Grace and read the “Gratitude” essay on Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know? show. I was unprepared for the reaction it received. I can’t know the state of your heart or situation, and I do not presume to preach, but I’m grateful for the good people out there, and the good they do. (This essay is the last piece in the book Roughneck Grace, available in most bookstores and along with all the others in the Sneezing Cow store.

The complete text is here.