<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Up Here In The Gray]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wisdom for Aging Gracefully]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/my-blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:07:52 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[What is Beyond?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lot is going on in the world. This constant bombardment of information that we must sort through to find the truth, but to find our truth. Yes, our truth. I have noticed that whatever I read, watch, or listen to has to go through my own filter, handed down to me through my family, culture, society, politics, and religious beliefs. So, there is no truth, or it's all truth, depending on the filter that it's passing through. I've been watching this person for a few years now. He has written a...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/what-is-beyond</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a8540ff1929985ec9449b5</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:56:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_e098b6f800704ac6a7c02b47e0a60b0a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual Gravy]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the many years that I been practicing meditation, hands-on healing, and general practices like Chi Gung or Tai Chi, you start to notice your personal energy field. This energy field can expand and contract depending on our perception of the world. I want to find the right words here. We choose to accept a culture of high stress, technology, and instant gratification. We work long hours, and we use illness and misery as badges of honor.   We live in an age of social media and instant...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/spiritual-gravy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6998b72ef63bd550f09fb929</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:18:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_bedf521b17d74864af26ec658ccc1e97~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Does One Use Faith and or Intention ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I think everyone has faith. However, what I was told about faith was that it was a matter of faith alone, without guidance on how to use it, best practices, or guidelines for creating the most positive outcome, and without knowing how to use this unbelievable creative power we have. I asked a simple question of my computer: Can I substitute the word "faith" with the word "intention"? The answer was yes. I believe these two words, faith and Intention, are tools we need to understand and train...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/how-does-one-use-faith-and-or-intention</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6994a7e2180bb9f884cad74e</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:50:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_76dfc0a4dfd84b1b98565a364c08fb08~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Tidbit on my Personal Healing Path.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'll share small stories from my personal journey with using and understanding energy work and healing. I have been doing some energy-based work for nearly 40 years now. My first couple of years were spent trying to understand it, get past my misconceptions like religious beliefs, cultural beliefs, societal beliefs, and any other belief or judgment that shut off this natural connection to myself. These negative beliefs ran rampant as I tried to cultivate and use the power of healing energy on...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/small-tidbit-on-my-personal-healing-path</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698a308cc54aab42f41c67fe</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:55:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_e7e76e62df194f50938ebca280681219~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is Faith?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I had an interesting question posed to me a day ago. They ask what is faith? It’s a simple enough question, but sharing my personal story of faith aims to inspire reflection and openness in others. As I lay there, pretending to sleep, I began to go back through my own life. I can only speak for myself, and to share my story of faith, I'm going to tell you about my life. My early years, up until my late teens, were filled with religion, prayer, and church. It was a forced following of God. My...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/what-is-faith</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698ccd18d558b030957c96cc</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:46:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_6f4a3f3ee0af43a1804f12961f62573d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My First Real Meditation Practice ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my life, I have been fascinated with the body's energy system-how thoughts are grounded in energy-and how training ourselves to use this energy can seem intimidating or strange at first. Still, it's a natural part of our human experience, inviting curiosity and trust in your own journey. Forty years ago, I came upon a book that was a thousand miles away from what I was reading, what I believed, and what I was even capable of understanding. It was deep into meditation, moving Chi energy...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/my-first-real-meditation-practice</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6988a2770c9b54090fe2a8be</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:41:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_ced554f62caf44a8b1c6ea6db605cbbd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stress in a Chaotic World.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I started by removing the news media from my life. I was lucky that social media and the internet were not yet a thing. However, I liked to be informed about what was going on in the world. So, I made a point of watching the news and seeing that I didn’t have enough going on in my life between being newly married, worrying about my job because I was taking chunks of time off. After all, I was sick. Being sick and constantly concerned about the next flare-up, the next cold, or the flu going...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/stress-in-a-chaotic-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6984e0fe0659032ed49bb839</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:22:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_21b7240634b24041ae784c754e59d904~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You’ve Got to Have Faith]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my search for the meaning of my life, and only my life. I have delved into the depths of knowledge most people don’t explore. This curiosity to understand, or a path to follow, a technique that leads me to a deeper understanding or belief, but most of the time leaves me empty and leads me nowhere. I came upon places in my destination where there was nothing of substance but comforting words, “Son, you have to have faith.”  This unassuming quote, given to me time and time again, I believe,...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/you-ve-got-to-have-faith</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6983a94b0b2d097f708bbfcd</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:36:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_ccb1ef238e3d46bf9b437701a5178377~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Did the Entertainment Business Corrupt the World]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am going to start with the invention of the radio. Radio was the beginning of the end. Hitler used this form of communication as a successful tactic against the German people. After World War 1, Germany was heavily punished by the Allied powers. A new leader, Adolf Hitler, was elected with the promise of restoring Germany to its rightful place in the world. He, in turn, created a propaganda campaign against the Jewish population by removing any oppositional radio stations and claiming the...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/how-did-the-entertainment-business-corrupt-the-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">697ce2b3ccf6db790cb33861</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:59:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_c5785b9515174a9bb6b192e3bfad149b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The True Crime Against the American People]]></title><description><![CDATA[I love this country and the people who built it, who live here, who fought for it, and what we stand for. What I have witnessed these last few years is alarming. This country is being split into two. Every day, I am blasted by the media and the internet that we are living in a war-torn third-world country. I am told every day to watch out; someone is going to attack me. The cops that I wave to are going to pull me out of my car and shoot me. My neighbor is plotting against me because I don’t...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/the-true-crime-against-the-american-people</link><guid isPermaLink="false">697a7376ff1fc7c00332b6c6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:01:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_b0b41a02f8854771be91b6d7358397cc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have Some Grit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recently, I read Angela Duckworth's book Grit, but I realized that understanding grit from a book isn't enough; true resilience comes from experience. Grit is something I learned by being up against it. I learned a long time ago that grit was not a word. It was something you built up. When, after school, you are told to pick up wood and put it in the house, or you have no heat for the night. That never happened because if you didn’t do it after school, you were doing it when your father got...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/have-some-grit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69791336c81bade1ddc17e01</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:43:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_edca7d314f48405aaf2121d920e8024a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food for Thought]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was listening to all the hubbub about the new food pyramid. I am going ask you a question: Did you follow the old one? Basically, I thought the old one was based on a malnourished 18-year-old male; maybe that was a folk tale I chose to believe. As I look at what is on store shelves in the United States and see words I cannot pronounce on the box or packaging labels. I cringe thinking about what I have put into my body through the years, the food I have eaten. I believed I was being...]]></description><link>https://uphereinthegray.wixsite.com/graywelcome/post/food-for-thought</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6970ee412ebbdbad74e4d60a</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:37:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d47618_3289e1aa94fa48629e3d81d3bda63aec~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_648,h_648,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bob Stickles</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>