Same Book, Different Day

 
Hey all,
 
During my study time this morning I started thinking about some of the books that have really taught me valuable insights and/or live changing principles. I realized, looking over the list that these are all books that I’ve read several times.
 
After pondering that for a while, I realized that the reason I’ve read [...]

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My Beautiful Shoes

 

My Beautiful Shoes
Years ago, my father gave me a beautiful pair of shoes.
I’d always wanted a pair of shoes like these, but they were far more expensive than I could ever afford, for I was poor and had always worn cheap shoes.
My new shoes were everything I’d ever dreamed of, they were made just for [...]

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Our Seattle Trip

 
Hey all,
 
For our 12th anniversary, we decided to drive up to Seattle and spend a few days seeing the sights. What a great time!
 
Luckily, we’re Oregonians, so we weren’t too disappointed that it rained (or hailed, or snowed) most of the time. The sun did break out at odd moments, but I don’t think it [...]

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AnySoldier.com

Hey all,
In our ongoing support and admiration of our troops, I wanted to share a great website I found this week: AnySoldier.com 
Many of us understand and agree that “Freedom isn’t free,” and would like to support the men and women of our armed forces, who are fighting overseas. But if, like me, you don’t have [...]

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Gracie’s first picnic

At almost eighty degrees today, it’s hard to reember that it was hailing just last week, and snowing the week before that! By the time Vic got home from a rare 1/2 Saturday in the office, we were all ready to get out into the sunshine.

As this was Gracie’s very first picnic, we decided we’d [...]

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There is a tree…

There is a tree…
 
In the midst of the garden, there is a tree.
It is the alpha and the omega.
We are the omega.
 
The omega is the branch, the twig, the leaf…all that is new every morning.
With every season the omega is new.
With every dawn the omega is new.
With every breath, the omega is new.
But the alpha [...]

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On her own two feet…

Okay,
So it was torture watching her pull herself us, waiting for her to thump her melon against the glass as I stood by with the camera ready…but she did it, all by herself…

I’m not sure I’m ready for this…
It seems like yesterday that she was here…

-Perk
 

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Of clichés and excuses

 
Marie Cocco wrote an essay for the Portland Oregonian titled, “The boys are being boys – yet again” (Tuesday, April 1st B7) in which she makes clear her opinion (in the first paragraph) that those in the Obama campaign and in the media who have called for Hillary to “throw in the towel” are doing [...]

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Thank God for the internet…

Hey all,
So, I was thinking this morning about what an amazing a thing the internet and email is. I mean, when, in all of history, was their ever such a compendium of easily accessable knowledge?Here are just a few of the things I have learned over the last few years…I can’t use the remote in [...]

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