All posts by Tony Burgess

Hi there, my name is Tony Burgess (my friends call me T-Bird) from Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. I am a believer, bleeding heart, idealist, and blogger. I'm married to Laura the Soup Diva and a dog dad to Frankie, Cody, and Mikey. Daily I work for a blood bank recruiting donors. My blog is where I chronicle and curate the sacred, serious, and silly things in my life. I am a member of The Episcopal Church. Thank you for connecting with me. Grace, peace, and love!

Doctor Who – Season 9 Coming Soon!

I can’t wait til the next season of the adventures of The Doctor and Clara Oswald. The trailers are getting me excited for what is to come. Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are great together. September 19th can’t come fast enough.

Male Pattern Blogging

I have come to the conclusion I need to be connected with more bloggers who happen to be men. My question is are there more women who blog because they are more verbal, expressive, thoughtful? Men do have things to day but we aren’t always in touch with our feelings to say what we need to say. Perhaps its just things I have in common with different people or something like that. There are some cool dudes out there who are like minded and fun, just need to find them. Male pattern blogging has nothing to do with how much hair one has….yeah that was a lame attempt at humor.

In Honor Of The Fallen of Chattanooga at The White House

Thank’s to the President and the White House for making this happen to honor the four Marines and one Sailor killed last Thursday in Chattanooga. A very fitting tribute.

Twitter

I am on twitter @tonyburgess1969 so if you have twitter I invite you to follow me there if you like. Twitter is going to be my social aggregate system during my hiatus from Facebook. There are things we post there that aren’t always related to our blogs so I wanna keep up with you. I have built lists to make it easier to find out what’s happening with you my blogging friends. So far I think it’s going to work out well. See you there good people.

Being Positive

As a generally positive person I do have my moments. But I work hard at seeing the better side of life and people. The world has enough negative energy where it can really wear on us. Having more words of affirmation would do us all good.

You have to be intentionally positive or at least fake it til you make it. This is hard for some because of prior life experience. Positive people do have the right to complain every so often because they want to effect change in their lives and community. I even complain about things, it’s just a human thing to do. Being an idealist is not easy because not everyone shares your vision of how things can be. Ones attitude about life in general informs us about where they are coming from. I heard in a movie once your attitude is the aroma of your heart so sometimes your heart has to be in a good place for you to be positive. Sometimes life hands you situations that require complaining. However I think you can complain from a positive place though.

Blogging can provide a great platform for people to share their hearts and minds. Posting positive things is fairly easy if you get into the practice of doing so. Our world is filled with great things you just have to look for them and to filter out the negative. Being positive isn’t easy, it’s a choice, its worth it.

To you my followers

Thanks for being an open minded group of bloggers who think for yourself. I appreciate you for your largely positive posts. You make it fun to be here. You rock.