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A smile, a helping hand and time

You can’t go back. It’s that simple. You can’t go back in time. Oh, you can dream about the past. You can reflect on past events. You can wish time travel existed.  But you can’t go back. You can adjust and adapt to what happened. You can try to live with the choices made and […]

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Fight the madness

Madness. How else to describe it. Absolute madness. Not only the shooting. Not only the deaths. Not only the ages of the children. Not only the  devastating loss. But the helpless feeling. The hopeless feeling. The sense of lack of any rationality to it. How to respond. How to react. What to believe. A moment […]

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Fighting against the ordinary

An endangered species. Ever think about the endangered species. I am not talking just about certain animals that may have been put on some such list. But rather certain qualities in people that seem endangered these days.  We get so used to the mediocrity that we don’t even recognize the truly exceptional any longer. We […]

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The why of the day

Ever look out a window and just wonder. Just wonder why. Not any phrase after the word  “why”. Just why. Why we hustle around. Why we run here and there. Why we argue or need to win at all cost? Why?  I keep thinking that why should be taken off the table. It just doesn’t […]

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Embracing the unknown

What is beautiful to you? What gets your imagination flowing?  What brings a smile to your face…even at a rough spot in the day? What puts the light in your eyes? What inspires you? I would love to know what does those for you. For me it is the honest connection between us all. The […]

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What would you fight for….

What would you fight for? What would you sacrifice for? What would you give it up for?  Who would you stand with? Who would you protect? Who would you put it on the line for? Although you may think these are merely rhetorical question, I submit they are not rhetorical at all. Each day we […]

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Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving.  A day of expressing gratefulness. A moment to be appreciative of family and friends. A day to sit down and share both a dinner and great conversation. My favorite moment is to sit in the family circle and listen to the expressions of grace. Grace. What a great word. This year I […]

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One more dance

The song came on and took me away. Maybe it was the song, the email I just got a moment before the song came on  and the movers carrying all the boxes and furntiture in from the truck. I don’t know. But…well, it got me thinking…again. Dance with my Father Again was the song. It […]

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Alive and well

The packing continues. The pictures are coming down off the walls. The boxes are filling up each room. The years and memories are being boxed up and labeled. We slowly walk from room to room.  The stories are still there. But then I saw it sitting in the bottom of a draw that hadn’t been […]

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Peace and memory

I never read anything like it before. At least I don’t recall. I am sure that it has happened often but I never read anything like it before. It just stopped me cold. It sent a chill up my spine. I literally shuttered. The obituary told the story of a once prominent person. A person […]

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