Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Symphony for a Hungry Old Man

 


Symphony for a Hungry Old Man

By Jim “Gymbeaux” Brown, November 26, 2025
Based on an email sent by Joe Tye

 

PERSONAL NOTE:  I have received the following Thanksgiving message from my friend, my mentor, author, trainer and speaker, Joe Tye.  He has written many books, and I believe I have read them all.  Of all his books, “All Hands on Deck” remains my personal favorite among so many favorites like “Never Fear, Never Quit!”  His message on Thanksgiving is worthy of sharing and Joe I sincerely hope you do. 

 

Every Thanksgiving I share this story as a reminder

that blessings are a gift, but gratitude is a choice

 

The blue jay and the cardinal made their livings in the park at the outskirts of the old village. Every day, they sat in the low branches of the maple tree, near the wooden bridge where a small stream twisted back upon itself, gurgling over rocks that God had planted before memory to teach the stream patience.  The morning sun transformed the little brook's mirrored surface into a dance floor for angels, their wings all a-shimmer as they pirouetted across the liquid crystal ripples.

 

Summer days, people sat on the banks watching the angels dance and listening to the lullaby of the brook cascading over the rocks - and to the symphony of the birds. The blue jay and the cardinal made a comfortable living serenading the picnickers, who shared crusts from their meat pies; the young lovers, who tossed bits of bread and cheese; the rangers, who always had delicious seeds and bits of dried fruit; and the old man, who feasted them with chunks of the heavy black bread he made in his own oven.

 

Life was good for the birds, plump and content up on their branch. It was beyond their comprehension that upheavals in the world outside this little haven could someday impinge upon them. They were slow to notice the changes when they occurred. How the picnickers stopped bringing pies, then stopped coming altogether. How the young lovers walked briskly, heads down and hands in pockets, without stopping to gaze at the brook or listen to the birds.

 

How, more often than not, instead of bringing fruits to share, the rangers came foraging themselves, digging up roots and dropping them into the limp satchels at their sides. How thin the old man had become, and how his meager bread had lost the taste and the texture of the old days. The blue jay and the cardinal could now be seen with the ordinary birds, picking through the dead grass of the meadow and chasing bugs in the tree branches.

 

"What have I done to deserve this hunger," the blue jay squawked. "I sing as beautifully as ever, but they don't appreciate me anymore." His trills no longer drifted down from the tree branches; when the old man sat on his bench, the jay just screeched at him, vainly demanding food.

 

But every afternoon the cardinal took his place on the branch. He was scrawny now, and his once regal plumage showed scars from the daily struggle for food. But when he puffed his chest and cocked his head, he regained his ancient majesty. And he filled the old man's ears with the symphony of his heart. For that brief eternity, the hungry little bird and the hungry old man danced with the angels across the stream, floating beyond time and care.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Joe

 

Here are some notable books by Joe Tye — the author and leadership consultant whose work focuses on values-based leadership, organizational culture, and personal development.  All books should be available on Amazon.com.

Leadership, Culture, & Healthcare

  • The Florence Prescription: From Accountability to Ownership
  • All Hands on Deck: 8 Essential Lessons for Building a Culture of Ownership (My personal favorite, Gymbeaux)
  • Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare (multiple editions; co-author occasionally involved depending on edition)
  • The Heart of a Nurse Leader
  • The Pickle Pledge: Creating a More Positive Healthcare Culture – One Attitude at a Time
  • The Twelve Core Action Values (multi-volume program)
  • The Cultural Blueprint (part of his organizational culture work)
  • The Invisible Architecture™ Series (various handbook-style titles)

Personal Development & Motivation

  • Never Fear, Never Quit (Another of my personal favorites, Gymbeaux)
  • Your Dreams Are Too Small
  • The Healing Tree
  • Winning the War With Yourself: Using Timeless Principles of Military Strategy to Defeat Your Own Worst Enemy
  • Personal Best: 1001 Great Ideas for Achieving Success in Your Career
  • Shoveling Smoke (early personal-development themed work)

Specialty / Values Programs

  • The Values Coach Self-Empowerment Library (series of short books and modules)
  • Daily Dose of Values (various editions)

YOU WON’T GO WRONG READING ANY OF THESE BOOKS! 

IN REALITY THEY ARE MY PERSONAL FAVORITES!

Monday, November 24, 2025

Why I Have Hope

 

WHY I HAVE HOPE
By Jim “Gymbeaux” Brown, November 23,2025

DISCLAIMER:  Before you read this, please understand, I am approaching my 81st Birthday and as such, it does not matter much TO ME what happens to America; my time is short to say the least. I do have four children, nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren. I am no different than any parent in that it would be my desire to leave my children with a better world than the 1945 world when I began my journey. If nothing changes, I am afraid I would have failed in that goal because America is on journey towards a far-left Marxist type government. 

I agree with Dr. John Maxwell who said, “Hope is NOT an effective strategy!”  Even with that in mind, I still have hope for America. Let me tell you why. 

Thanksgiving 2025 is only days away as I write this Nugget. I am not sure why I am writing this Nugget other than the thought or subject matter suddenly popped into my head this past Sunday afternoon and I thought I would share my thoughts with whomever decides to read it. 

I am guessing that fewer than 20% of the people who read this Nugget will be unfamiliar with something called “The Q Board.”  Only 20% would not be surprising because Americans, certainly not you, are unaware of the material that would have mentioned it. Therefore, there is no shame in not knowing. Still, with my limited knowledge of what I have read thus far, I DO have the hope that not only the “future” lies ahead of us, but that the “best future of America and possibly the world” lies ahead of us. 

As a brief explanation of The Q Board, let me begin in the year 2017. I am unaware of the origins of the board’s beginning nor is it known who is making the posts on The Q Board unless the creator of each post makes their identity known within each post. I became interested in Q Posts over 5 years ago, therefore, my knowledge does not go back to the beginning, nor have I read every post that has ever appeared on the Q Board. 

This is what I know about the Q Board Posts and why the posts have provided me with the hope for our collective futures. Things you must know about each Q Post: 

  •     The posts contain a specific time and day the post was posted; known as “time stamps.”
  •     They each contain a specific Date of the posts.
  •    The actual post may consist of one to three words, or they made be lengthy but rarely are they more than ten individual lines; most are much short in length.
  •    The posts are oftentimes difficult if not impossible to understand given the brevity of each line in each post.
  •     People who read the posts, typically file the contents of the posts deep within their memory and can recall a post from the past; I am not one of those people. 

How are the posts link to events of today, November 25, 2025? I am so glad you asked because that is what instills within me the hope for the future. We are NOT readily seeing what has been happening behind the scenes. We only see and hear on television, radio and in the newspapers what someone WANTS us to see and hear. Is that so difficult to understand that things happen that we do not know about? As an example, everyone knows about the Stealth Bomber; we all have seen it. Still, for years if not decades, people planned the plane, designed the plane, contracted out to have the plane built, conducted test flights and most if not all of us had no clue until it was officially released to the public that it existed and that it worked as planned.  There is a great deal that people do not know, and that includes me. 

President Trump and members of his inner circle have created posts on Facebook, on “X” and on Truth Social. Like the Q Posts, they all contain date and time stamps. IF, and that is a HUGE IF, if you are aware of the Q Board Posts, not only do you read the actual posts on these social media pages, you pay specific attention to the time and date they were posted because it is NOT an accident or a coincidence as to the TIME and the DATE they are posted.  For example, let us assume that a post made on November 25, 2025, at 1:30 PM includes a statement about something being PURPLE. I chose the word purple for no specific reason; it was totally at random. Then when you go back and look at the Q Board posts that coincide with the time stamp of the post that refers to purpose, WHAM! There it is in plain English, the word Purple! Someone had gone to a great deal of trouble, or they used AI to make the connection. Still, it can’t be just random that someone within the POTUS’ Inner Circle posts today and three, four or even seven years ago as you trace the Q Posts that coincide with today’s time stamp, you can find something posted that specifically matches up with today’s post.  The posts do NOT consist of something you could just make up today because you went back seven years ago and saw the Q Post that referred to it. No, the posts refer to something that is happening around us that no one person could control. For example, assume that a famous person is indicted. You look at the time stamp of the post that refers to it. You go back in time on the Q Board and BINGO, there it is!!!  How could someone five or seven years ago KNOW that a specific person would be indited today? I have a theory but if I were to tell you about it here, you would all believe without a doubt that I was for sure, Bonafide Crazy. As a hint, do your own research on Project Looking Glass, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH OPERATION LOOKING GLASS. These are two different programs. 

To answer the statement that I have hope for our future in spite of the B.S. we CAN see happening around us, boils down to TWO recurring posts on the Q Board: 

WWGOWGA
The Best Is Yet to Come! 

It is a meeting of two thoughts. Q Posts have been spot-on correct down to the day and year that events have happened from one to seven years out. If you believe that whoever is creating the Q Posts can so accurately predict these things and then they eventually become reality, it is understandable that you could get excited when you see, WWGOWGA. What does that mean? Where We Go One, We Go All, AND they and other posts read, The Best Is Yet To Come, it gives me the hope needed to endure the massive amounts of exposure of corruption, within our government, various organizations and corporations throughout America and the World.  The more we all expose the evil corruption, the better our lives will become PROVIDED the evil doers of this corruption are all brought to justice. THEY WILL NOT GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT! As an example, the Biden Administration used every department to create “lawfare” against a sitting president, a presidential candidate and then again against a sitting president. When the sitting president attempts to clean up the corruption within the Federal, State and Local governments, the opposition accuses him of committing the very lawfare THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS AND THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION USED against him! What is the difference? 

Legal attempts targeting President Trump were at best, made up. Laws were changed or created from thin air, like in New York City. This created the appearance of a crime(s) where no crime(s) had been committed. As judges and courts have ruled against President Trump, the verdicts are then overturned by higher courts. This is lawfare at work within America. 

The problem for most Americans is apathy; they just do not care. I believe there is a reason for this and it started in our educational system in the early 1970s. You may not agree with what I am about to say and that is okay. If you are still with me, I am glad you stuck with me. In the late 1950s, The Communist Party USA, yes there is a party by that name, and it still exists today, they created forty-five specific goals that if achieved, would result in a take over of America without ever firing a shot. The one attribute in their favor was patience. They KNEW that if they had patience, their goals WOULD be achieved. This accomplishment would be a result of America coming to its need from within, not an external military force. This WOULD enable an overthrow of America without firing a shot. The most important objective of the forty-five was Objective #17. It reads: 

17.  Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. 

Here is how it works. It took time to infiltrate the schools and more importantly the “teacher’s union(s).”  Once the infiltration was accomplished, curriculums began to change to include the “party line in textbooks.”  I am guessing that by the early 1970s, the seeds of their forty-five objectives had already been sown and began to grow. Young children exposed to this new Marxist/Communist training eventually grew into young adults. These young adults went to universities and who is not aware of the far-left leaning universities in America, therefore, their Leftist education continued throughout their college years. These same children/young adults/college graduates when on to become teachers and college professors. You can only imagine their thought processes as the cycle began all over again with these teachers/professors now teaching the youngsters enrolled in the government controlled educational system. It is a cycle that will certainly spell doom for the America we have known and loved if it not already broken! 

To emphasize this point, one only needs to review something that none other than Joseph Stalin said: 

“Give me just one generation of youth,
and I’ll transform the whole world.”

Stalin also said:  

“Give me a child for the first five or seven years of his life,
and he (she) is mine forever.”

Either way, it is NOT good news! 

In my opinion, repeat opinion as compared to a conclusion based on facts, I believe there are only two ways that American can persevere the onslaught of Marxism/Communism ideology:  Hope and believe that the Q Board is right and whoever is posting the Q Posts KNOWS that is happening as predicted.  The second way is to pray for the intercession of God. There is NO ONE coming to help us defeat an unseen enemy that is within us when so many people prefer NOT TO LOOK or GET INVOLVED – DEATH BY APATHY! 

Where we go one, we go all could be either a good thing or a horrible thing. Hopefully, it is something good that we all hope and pray will eventually turn the country around. If this does NOT happen, the march towards Marxism/Communism will continue until America as a Constitutional Republic will fail to exist! You can no longer sit on the fence of apathy and just ignore what has been happening unless you are satisfied that America, which is now circling the drain, will eventually become just another failed Socialist State for its people as history has proven to be the case 100% of the time! 

Since you have read this far, I am begging you to listen to an interview conducted by Lara Logan. Ms. Logan is one of the few remaining real journalists that exist in 2025. “Real Journalism” is all but dead in America in 2025. It is a long interview, but EXTREMELY revealing and it reinforces what I have written in this Nugget. I listened at 1.25 speed and then 1.5 speed to save time and I did not lose the ability to follow along. If the link provided fails to work, copy and paste the address to your browser and it should access the interview. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA9OCusr64A 

WHERE WE GO ONE, WE GO ALL!

THE BEST IS YET TO COME!