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May.20.2013
AbI Gal in front of the Bird of Paradise plant. Now she is a bird in Paradise.
Our house is strangely silent this morning. Sadie walks over to the window in the dining room where AbiGal our cockatiel’s cage has been for almost four years. She sniffs the floor. She runs her...
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Dec.29.2012
How I Became Bitter
In the mid-sixties, at age 12, my neighborhood friend Tuffy took up the business of selling greeting cards. He would go door to door carrying one of his attaché cases, asking people to buy different types, ranging from boxes of birthday cards to all-occasion cards. I went...
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Dec.19.2012
Life is journey we are told.
I believe that to be true. I also believe that at each stop along this path, we are to make the most of it. Not even a wrong turn, or a dead-end is wasted.
My life's path was laid out straight at 18 years old. College, career, marriage, children, house in the...
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Oct.21.2012
My Grandfather was an amazing man. He taught me so much in the short time I was with him that it isn’t even funny. I would hang on every word that man would tell me because quite frankly I thought he hung the moon. Yesterday a couple of events reminded me about the greatest lesson he...
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Sep.29.2012
On September 23, 1991, the pediatric nurse walked down the well lit hallway of Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California. I slept in the waiting room awaiting the approval to enter the ICU room to see our two year old...
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Sep.11.2012
Sitting outside his TeePee the indian chief watched his son approach and sit down. The young boy's face looked sad and the chief questioned this.
"Father, I hunt every day, to try to make you proud. Yet, I still have not been successful in my hunts...
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Jul.31.2012
Two years ago last week, my dad passed away. He was a young guy, only 61, and he died far too soon. As I have grown older, I have come to understand the lessons that he taught me and I now have a much fuller appreciation for what he left me. I have not been shy with sharing my feelings on my...
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May.20.2012
This morning's sermon jolted me out of my daydream.
The priest was listing the things, he believes, that annoy God. There were the usual litany of sins: greed, selfishness, taking creation for granted, and then he let the big one out of the bag.
God hates instant coffee! Suddenly he had my...
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Mar.25.2012
The job pays you very well It is your incumbent duty To do the job damn superbly Well concentrate on the job
You have a fine family Lovingly you maintain it The job helps you do that In not the job really noble?
Develop a different attitude It must enthuse you superbly Once that loving is well-...
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Oct.11.2011
The funny thing about the universe is its impeccable timing....
Never once has the universe ever let me slide through on a test of self.
For the past several days I've hesitated making a decision I knew was best for me and the project I was working on because I wanted everybody to like me.
Now I...
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