SocratesDude – Let him that would move the world first move himself

Le Grá Mór (With Big Love!)

by: socratesdudePosted on: March 13, 2025March 13, 2025

Great childhood memories of St. Patrick’s Day approaching in our different New York City apartments…121st, 122nd, and 96th. My Dad packing up our lone orange cooler that had been laboriously dug out of the depths of one of our coveted NYC closets, filled to the brim with the cases of Bud, Pepsi […]

Encouragement , Grief , Hope , Hopeful , Kindness

Love Supersized

by: socratesdudePosted on: October 15, 2024January 14, 2025

A year ago, a woman so full of grace, took the most peaceful of naps and woke up in heaven holding hands with the love of her life. I’m amazed once again at the meaning of and passing of time. Heard the news from my brother at 5:40am that day and gave […]

Encouragement , Hope

Rainy Day Encouragement

by: socratesdudePosted on: September 9, 2021October 15, 2024

Levity

First Attempt at Video Blog

by: socratesdudePosted on: August 23, 2021April 25, 2023

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You’re Closer Than You Think

by: socratesdudePosted on: February 23, 2021August 23, 2021

My hope and my prayer is that someone that could really use a gentle pick me up, hears these words “You’re closer than you think!” and the embers of their soul glow with all of the love infused within them.

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R E S P E C T

by: socratesdudePosted on: July 30, 2020August 23, 2021

Respect. What is it? Why is it important? How do we respect ourselves? How do we show our respect for others? What does it mean to respect? If we recognize that God is within us and that we have been given a gift called life – how do we say thank you […]

Encouragement , Work

Certainly Uncertain

by: socratesdudePosted on: January 14, 2020April 25, 2023

Eric Church, has a line in one of his songs that that I love, “my figured out’s never been more confused.” I’ve done nothing but take leaps my whole life and trust that everything would work out just fine. And yet, the older I get, it’s easy to lose sight of those […]

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Been Awhile, And That’s OK

by: socratesdudePosted on: June 6, 2018January 14, 2020

I have the burning desire to write and have no idea what exactly I want to write. The fear of not knowing, of wanting to write something that it universally loved, or in other words, not criticized at all, have left me silent. My Dad’s passing was the subject of my first […]

Mindful , Self Actualize

Choose.

by: socratesdudePosted on: October 20, 2016April 25, 2023

Choose. My relatively new favorite word. Empowering. Active. Mindful. Two years ago, one lazy summer evening on our front porch in Maplewood, New Jersey, my wife lovingly and encouragingly asked me “What’s your dream job?” If you’ve ever held a conch shell up to your ear, there was a similar sound whooshing through my […]

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Let It Flow

by: socratesdudePosted on: April 28, 2016April 28, 2016

My Dad died suddenly and quickly from a pulmonary embolism on March 1st and I’m having a tough time comprehending that it’s almost been two months since he died. He was 71 years old and was in perfect health. I’m still in shock and trying to accept not only the reality of […]