Friday is one of
my favorite days of the week. I find that my mood is lighter, I’m happier, and
I tend to joke around more. The “push” from the beginning of the week is almost
over, if not over. There is, hopefully, a sense of accomplishment. Some goal,
some task was met and achieved. Perhaps, there is simply a sense of relief. Most
certainly Friday brings us time to pause, time to catch one’s breath.
Friday. Just
saying it or reading it makes you feel happier.
Several thoughts
with that . . .
The first is that,
if we are reflective, we can look back at what we’ve done, what we’ve said, how
we acted, and consider if we did the best we could when we could with whom we
could. Or, did we hold back and did we leave a bit on the table, so to speak. Because
the end of the week allows us to consider our job, our actions, our intents . .
. our heart. Then we can use the weekend to recharge, relax, refresh so that
when Monday comes around, we can begin anew. We can get it right, or at least
attempt to.
The second thought
about Friday is that there are some among us who don’t have much to look
forward to after today ends. There might be a lack of food, a lack of comfort,
a lack of someone to share something . . . anything . . . with. We don’t know
what others might be going home to. A lack of support, a lack of love, a lack
of . . .
Same day, two
different views, two different feelings.
I know there is
only so much I can control. I have my world and there are those who enter it
from time to time, some for a long time, some for a quick visit. In that time
whether long or short, I can do my best to bring a smile, to create joy, to
lift or help carry a load. I can bring some level of understanding, and if not
understanding, I can at least let whoever know I heard, that I can listened.
Sometimes, that’s all that might be needed. Sometimes, that’s all I can do.
Sometimes, that’s all any of us can do.
But I think it is
important to reflect on this Friday, to reflect on any Friday.
What did I do to
make the world, this place we share, a little more joyful, a little lighter, a
little more peaceful?
Or . . .
Did I gossip, tear
down, use my sarcastic wit to cast shadows and hurt? Did I share a story – true
or not – and not care whether or not I hurt someone? Did I pause in my busy day
to care about someone, to listen to someone, or did I just go about my day, my
week, without thinking who might have needed me for a moment? Was I so into my
own world I forgot that others are pulled along with me?
It doesn’t take
much to do one or the other. Seconds, minutes. To smile or frown. To laugh or
add to someone’s sorrow. To be in the present. To be there for someone other
than just me and my own. It doesn’t take much. And if we did slip up along the
way this week, don’t worry too much about it. Monday is just around the corner
and we get to begin again. We get to start over. And before you know it, it
will be Friday once again. Something to think about . . .
Live Your Life,
and Make A Difference!
To My Readers:
My new book, Betrayed, will debut Nov. 12, 2020! It is a contemporary
psychological thriller using some of the same characters from my previous work.
It takes place on the Navajo Nation Reservation in northeast Arizona.
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Caught in a Web is
now available in Audio format. You
can find it at https://www.beaconaudiobooks.com/audiobookreleases/high-school-drug-rings-gangs-and-revenge-are-all-encompassing-in-caught-in-a-web-by-joseph-lewis
Spiral Into Darkness:
Spiral Into Darkness was named a Recommended Read in
the Author Shout Reader Awards!
He blends in. He
is successful, intelligent and methodical. He has a list and has murdered eight
on it so far. There is no discernible pattern. There are no clues. There are no
leads. The only thing the FBI and local police have to go on is the method of
death: two bullets to the face- gruesome and meant to send a message. But it’s
difficult to understand any message coming from a dark and damaged mind. Two
adopted boys, struggling in their own world, have no idea they are the next
targets. Neither does their family. And neither does local law enforcement. https://amzn.to/2RBWvTm
Caught in a Web:
A PenCraft Literary Award Winner!
The bodies of high
school and middle school kids are found dead from an overdose of heroin and
fentanyl. The drug trade along the I-94 and I-43 corridors and the Milwaukee
Metro area is controlled by MS-13, a violent gang originating from El Salvador.
Ricardo Fuentes is sent from Chicago to Waukesha to find out who is cutting in
on their business, shut it down and teach them a lesson. But he has an ulterior
motive: find and kill a fifteen-year-old boy, George Tokay, who had killed his
cousin the previous summer.
Detectives Jamie
Graff, Pat O’Connor and Paul Eiselmann race to find the source of the drugs,
shut down the ring, and find Fuentes before he kills anyone else, especially
George or members of his family. The three detectives discover the ring has its
roots in a high school among the students and staff. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CKF7696
Book One of the Lives Trilogy, Stolen Lives:
Two thirteen year
old boys are abducted off a safe suburban street. Kelliher and his team of FBI
agents have 24 hours to find them or they’ll end up like all the others- dead!
They have no leads, no clues, and nothing to go on. And the possibility exists
that one of his team members might be involved. http://tinyurl.com/Stolen-Lives-J-Lewis
Book Two of the Lives Trilogy, Shattered Lives:
Six men escaped
and are out for revenge. The boys, recently freed from captivity, are in danger
and so are their families, but they don’t know it. The FBI has no clues, no
leads, and nothing to go on and because of that, cannot protect them. http://tinyurl.com/Shattered-Lives-J-Lewis
Book Three of the Lives Trilogy, Splintered Lives:
A 14 year old boy
knows the end is coming. What he doesn’t know is when, where or by whom. Without
that knowledge, neither he nor the FBI can protect him or his family.
The Lives Trilogy Prequel, Taking Lives:
FBI Agent Pete
Kelliher and his partner search for the clues behind the bodies of six boys
left in various and remote parts of the country. Even though they don’t know
one another, the lives of FBI Kelliher, 11 year old Brett McGovern, and 11 year
old George Tokay are separate pieces of a puzzle. The two boys become interwoven
with the same thread that Pete Kelliher holds in his hand. The three of them
are on a collision course and when that happens, their lives are in jeopardy as
each search for a way out. http://tinyurl.com/Taking-Lives-J-Lewis
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