A storytelling podcast with a focus on stories of Beautiful, East Texas as it existed a generation ago, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Freemasonry, and Hanks personal experience with Parkinson's Disease. Faith, hope, charity, humor, service, parenting, and storytelling. <br/><br/><a href="https://hankgriffin.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">hankgriffin.substack.com</a>
You've Been Hanked
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A storytelling podcast with a focus on stories of Beautiful, East Texas as it existed a generation ago, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Freemasonry, and Hanks personal experience with Parkinson's Disease. Faith, hope, charity, humor, service, parenting, and storytelling. <br/><br/><a href="https://hankgriffin.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">hankgriffin.substack.com</a>
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September 14, 2024
Classic Hank: That Time I Stole A Dog
<p>This episode originally aired in May of 2023. It is the story of how I met one of the very best friends I ever had: Prissy the wonder dog. I hope you enjoy it. </p><p>Much Love,HankYou’ve Been Hanked!The Hank Griffin Podcast</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://hankgriffin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">hankgriffin.substack.com/subscribe</a>
September 2, 2024
Diagnosis: Part 2 of the Hank Griffin Podcast, Parkinson's Project
<p>So, You or Someone You Love, Just Got a Parkinson’s Diagnosis</p><p>First of all, I am sorry. Parkinson’s sucks. I wish this weren’t happening to you.</p><p>Secondly, while I am sorry and Parkinson’s absolutely does suck, you’ve been diagnosed, and most likely this is real and is really happening.</p><p>So, now what?</p><p>Well, life goes on. It is different. No doubt you feel like someone who just got ran over by a large truck. At least that is how I felt when I was diagnosed. The shock was, it was tough and stayed with me for many weeks.</p><p>I’d been living with it for years by then. I’d had tremors that began in my hands when I was seven. Over the years, it moved to my whole body. Minor at first. Pretty bad eventually.</p><p>If you or a loved one is experiencing it, you know just exactly what I mean.</p><p>In my case, as I said, the shock lasted a long time. That may have been in part, because I chose not to talk about it. Not to anyone except my Bride. It is not an exaggeration to say that, for the first few years, I could not even bring myself to utter the word, “Parkinson’s” aloud in the presence of others.</p><p>I was embarrassed; ashamed. Looking back, that was really dumb. I’d had an essential tremor since I was a kid. My hands always shook. People would ask, “Why are you hands shaking?” Thoughtless adults who should have known better asked questions like, “Why are you so nervous, you up to something?”</p><p>That last one really irritated me because I was a good kid who was struggling but was being treated like a kid whose behavior was suspect and shown no compassion by people who could and should have demonstrated some degree of care knowing it would have cost them nothing.</p><p>I may have felt embarrassment knowing I would be asked for additional explanations. I was really concerned about my employer finding out. Plus, Parkinson’s, as I understood it, is an older person’s disease. I’d been dealing with it since my early thirties. I didn’t know anyone else, personally, who was similarly afflicted. I mean anyone else in my age bracket.</p><p>Obviously, the first name that leaps to the mind of most people is, Michael J. Fox. As it happens, he and I were both stricken with Parkinson’s at similar ages but ten years apart which is also the difference in our ages. I admire the work he has done, the example that he sets.</p><p>Like the majority of those reading this, I am neither wealthy nor famous. I am unlikely, for example, ever to be asked to testify before congress about Parkinson’s and what living with it is like.</p><p>If I were to be asked, I would gladly tell them that it sucks. Parkinson’s sucks.</p><p>I wish I had not lived with that shame and embarrassment for so long. If I could do it over, I would have started talking about it right away. I would have sought out the advice, counsel, and support of those who’d already walked this path a while. But, I didn’t. I couldn’t. I was just too ashamed.</p><p>I was a fool!</p><p>Listen to the full episode by clicking on the player at the top of this email!</p><p>Much Love,HankYou’ve Been Hanked!The Hank Griffin Podcast</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://hankgriffin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">hankgriffin.substack.com/subscribe</a>
August 26, 2024
Weary Woodcutter's Winter Lament, Part 1
<p>Weary Woodcutter’s Winter Lament</p><p>Momma and Dub worked hard to provide for our family. They were good people, young, in love, and they loved us kids. They were, neither of them, perfect. Like me, they were not even close. Curiously, to my mind these several decades later, though it is fair to say that neither of them were perfect, it is also entirely correct to say that they were more perfect, together than either of them were, individually.</p><p>I think back to the words of the prophet, Nephi who, in introducing himself in the Book of Mormon, wrote, “I Nephi, having been born of goodly parents…” Be patient with me, we aren’t about to have church today. He wished immediately to convey a sense of who he was to the reader. Who we are, particularly, in our youth, really does begin with where we are from, who our folks are.</p><p>Nephi was a Jew fleeing to a Land of Promise prior to the destruction of, Israel. He would go on to become a great leader of his future people. He would see and do extraordinary things. But, there, in that moment, he wasn’t yet the prophet, Nephi. He was still just, Nephi, a son of Lehi and Sariah.</p><p>In Sunday School we are often encouraged to “liken ourselves to the scriptures.” That is a fancy way of saying, put yourself in the place of those about whom you are reading.</p><p>They like to talk real fancy at church. Do that do at your church? Whew boy, they sure do it at mine. You should come sometime and listen to them. So dang fancy!</p><p>Its good stuff, to be sure, if occasionally laid on a little thick… and fancy.</p><p>I’ve done it of course, likened myself unto the scriptures, I mean. Sometimes it is wonderfully useful. Other times, it just serves to demonstrate to me how very, very far from the scriptural ideal my life is, was, and most likely, will ever be. But then, perhaps that is the point. Maybe when we do this we are meant to gain personal insight into our mortal state as compared to some ideal that we can then aspire to.</p><p>Let me try it here: “I, Hank, having been born of goodly parents, therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father, and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days, nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days; yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God, therefore I make a record of my proceedings in my days.”</p><p>Huh, I’ll be. I was prepared to write as to how that felt silly. In fact though, it sorta felt right. I won’t dwell further on it. Rather, I will carry on with the record of my proceedings in my days.</p><p>Still, pretty fancy, huh...</p><p>Momma and Dub worked hard to feed, clothe, and shelter us. Dub was a coal miner. Momma was usually a work-in-the-home mother. With four children to tend to, corral, and provide for, both of them worked hard.</p><p>I often felt that Dub was addicted to hard work. He spent twelve hours each workday in the mine. He worked four on and three off then three on and four off. When he wasn’t working mining coal, he was working during what were, ostensibly, his off hours in other ways that usually involved working our farm. We raised watermelons commercially, a huge garden that fed our family and other families too, and we kept beef cattle.</p><p>Aside from the mine and our farm, Dub cut wood to heat our home and to sell to members of our community. He hired himself out to build barbed wire fence. He had a lot of irons in the fire.</p><p>By the time I was just about eight years old, maybe just a little earlier than that, Dub started taking me with him. Where ever he was going, whatever work he was doing, I was right there with him.</p><p>I hated it.</p><p><em>To hear this podcast in full, please click on the link up top. I hope you enjoy part 1 of this two part episode of the Hank Griffin Podcast.</em> </p><p>Much Love,Hank </p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://hankgriffin.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">hankgriffin.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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