You may want to avert your eyes.

Tom Selleck achieved tremendous success modeling underwear. I myself have all but given up.  My best hope may be my little book.

Glad Days Long Ago is a collection of short stories and reminiscences. It’s an assortment of unrelated windows into my life and time; a compilation of just over 40 pieces I’ve written over a thirty year period. As a result, the compositions are written in a variety of styles. Beyond the fact that they are nostalgic windows into the past, my past and the distant past, they are unrelated. The books only flow is the fact that it reflects my life and my interests, from my childhood to the present. The book has no plot, and no villain, other than time itself, and times exasperating inclination to run out.  

My story, although autobiographical to some extent, is a fictional parable about youth, innocence, faith, heritage, nostalgia, patriotism, and growing old. It contains humor, bitter sweet reminiscences, and glimpses of a distant day when life seemed simple, summer was perennial, and childlike faith assured tomorrows joys. 

“GLAD DAYS LONG AGO” is available in paperback or as an eBook, On Amazon.com

I appreciate your interest.

Shannon Thomas Casebeer

New Year’s Resolution 2019

Ready or not, the future starts now. I’m resolved to embrace it. New generations of dreamers are prepared to achieve their dreams.  It will be a new age of enlightenment. We’ll face inconceivable obstacles and reach previously unattainable goals. You’ll have choices to make, and failing to choose is a consequential choice. Choose wisely.  SC

Okay, listen up! I began posting back in 2010. Over the last eight years my facebook posts have been liked over one hundred thousand times, and my blog has received over fifty thousand page views from all over the world. Quite a number of people have suggested I publish a book. “GLAD DAYS LONG AGO” contains around fifty of my most popular posts from over the last eight years. I’d be gratified if you’d read it. I believe you would too. Shannon

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Mindfulness and meditation are basically about occupying your mind with a good diversion. Look for something pleasant that you can relate to. Here's a suggestion.

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GLAD DAYS LONG AGO, and FAMILY

FAMILY

As I sit here in the stillness,

While the crackling embers glow,

My mind casts dancing shadows

Of glad days long ago.  

I recall my granddad’s whiskered grin,

His white and wispy hair,

And Grandma humming blissfully

From a creaking rocking chair.

I see my mother in her youth

And Daddy, young and trim.

I rarely ever walk these fields

That I don’t think of him.

Their council was the granite block

On which my faith took hold.

Their favor was the prize I sought,

As others might seek gold.  

Throughout my life I sought to please

The family of my youth.

Their convictions shaped what I believe.

Their faith became my truth.

Their memories are my heritage.

Their achievements are my pride.        

Their dreams became my legacy,

As through the years they died.

And when my robe of flesh drops free,

And I breathe my final breath,

Their faith shall bear my whispered prayer,

As, trusting God, I close my eyes in death.

Shannon Thomas Casebeer

“GLAD DAYS LONG AGO” Excerpt

Looking back, our lives whiz by before we know what hit us.  We spend our first thirty years thinking about our future, the second thirty thinking about our past, and our last year’s wondering what the hell we were thinking.

During the golden days of youth I tended to envision time as a vast, unlimited resource. Time it seemed was an inexhaustible sea.  Now in the autumn of my life each hour is increasingly precious, and I thirst for each minute as it drips away from an alarmingly finite pool. 

The older I get, the more adamant I become in my belief that we should start out old and grow younger every year. On each successive anniversary of our birth, we could assemble all our friends and family for a truly heartfelt celebration, and joyously remove one candle from our cake. What could be better than spending our twilight years with the carefree hearts of children, when life seemed simple, summer was perennial, and childlike faith assured tomorrows joys?

GLAD DAYS LONG AGO

Now available on Amazon

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

BTW There no one on your shopping list that wouldn't enjoy this book.

My hole life, for the price of a cup of coffee.

                             Here’s another selection from my new book,

“GLAD DAYS LONG AGO”

It’s basically my reminiscences; my whole life in a nutshell.

I guarantee that it will make you smile.

The ebook is about the same price as a cup of coffee,

Cheers!  

SUNSETS

I remember Ferris wheels

And sharing cotton candy,

Walking barefoot hand in hand

Along a beach that’s sandy,

Afternoons on inner tubes

With sunshine on my shoulders,

And the smell of roasting hotdogs

As a stone lined campfire smolders.

I remember sleeping on air mattresses gone flat,

Ballgames in the meadow,

And the cracking of a bat;

Kool-Aid on the running board

Of Granddad’s little Ford,

And popcorn at the theater

With that gal that I adored.

I remember horseback rides

And summertime romances,

Chewing gum scented kisses,

And long, slow dances,

Moonlit walks with pretty girls

In soft gingham dresses,

Thoughtful talks on country roads,

And warm, moist caresses;

And I recall the dawning

Of an inescapable truth,

And reconciliation as the sun set on my youth.

Shannon Thomas Casebeer