Since this is Thanksgiving week I’m focusing on gratitude for blessings received in 2025.
I’ll start with the doctors and nurses at Riverside Methodist and Dublin Methodist Hospitals. They detected an aortic aneurysm and replaced it in July.
The rest of these are in random order.
My friends in the National Speakers Association and the Ohio Chapter of NSA are inspiring and generous with tips to make me a better speaker. Several have been friends for more than 30 years.
I’m grateful for friends and colleagues in my work as an agricultural engineer, especially at Ohio State University since 1979, and farmers and other professionals involved with no-till farming and soil health across the state and country. It is a pleasure to serve with them in making our food system the best in the world. Healthy soils are the foundation for healthy people.
Jennifer Rogers (Will’s great-granddaughter) is the co-author of our new book, “Common Horse Sense from Will Rogers: 7 Timeless Tips for Leaders (and Everyone Else).” At a time in the country when common sense is often lacking, this little book provides inspiring, uplifting stories from Will Rogers. We’re grateful for readers who have left wonderful messages. (Available for $4.95 at ShopWillRogers.com/collections/books)
Carl and Deb Potter of Haskell, Oklahoma, suggested I write a leadership book based on Will Rogers and in one evening we had the basic framework for it.
Tracey Jones, owner of TremendousLeadership.com, published our book. It is the 37th in a series of Life-Changing Classics.
The YMCA in Hilliard provides the equipment to help me get in good physical shape and stay in shape.
Of course I’m grateful to family. My sister and a lot of cousins in West Virginia always welcome me when “Country Roads” take me back home. Our son and daughter, their spouses, and six granddaughters are delightful. The granddaughters are in the Gen Z generation and are nothing like the negative stereotype of that age group. They study hard, work hard, earn money, pay off loans, and they have lots of friends. The oldest is married to a Lt. in the new Space Force.
To all of you who read my Weekly Comments, I thank you also.
I’m grateful to others not mentioned here. I’ll thank them personally.
Who are you thankful for? What blessings have you received in 2025?
Historic quote by Will Rogers:
“Thanksgiving Day. In the days of its founders, they were willing to give thanks for mighty little, for mighty little was all they expected. But now neither government or nature can give enough but what we think it’s too little. Those old boys in the Fall of the year, if they could gather in a few pumpkins, potatoes and some corn for the winter, they was in a thanking mood. But if we can’t gather in a new Buick, a new radio, a tuxedo and some government relief, why we feel like the world is agin us.” DT #2594, Nov. 28, 1934