Here Today, Wrong Tomorrow

Carrots don’t improve your vision; toads don’t give you warts; you use more than 10% of your brain (all of it actually); coffee won’t stunt your growth; and cracking your knuckles won’t cause arthritis. It is amazing how many things we easily believe that are not true. In fact, the less we know about something,…

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On The Road

There was once a man who was traveling when he was attacked and beaten to the point where he might have died. Two different people came by, but neither helped, one possibly out of fear and one perhaps out of selfishness. Then a stranger happened by and had compassion and helped the man until he…

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My Neighbors

I noticed her face was wet, and water was running down onto her leopard print shirt when the little girl that lives across the street came running over to my driveway. When she saw I was outside, she asked her mother and then carefully looked both ways before crossing the street. Once safely in my…

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Blissful Ignorance

I may be an overthinker. Anyone reading this who knows me just laughed out loud. I like to do graphic design. I was recently working on a brand design for a group, and I found myself making tiny, almost imperceptible changes as I “cleaned up” the design. In fact, I have actually sent people a…

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Can You Hear Me?

A sound wave is the pattern of disturbance caused by the movement of energy traveling through a medium. Humans can perceive “waves” of energy between 20Hz and 20,000Hz as audible sound. However, we use the term “hear” to signify much more than auditory perception. This past Thursday and Friday, I was blessed to attend the 2022 Global Leadership…

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All Hands On Deck

We built a deck at my son’s house last week. Of course, we chose the hottest week of the year so far to be outside lifting 2×10’s into place and running an overheating screw gun. It was brutal, but it was also fun and very satisfying. You will have to take my word for it…

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Colorful Expectations

It disturbs me when I open a package of M&M’s and there are significant differences in the quantity of each color. When I was about six, I sorted an entire box of Fruit Loops by color, only to be terribly disappointed that there were vastly different amounts of red, orange, and yellow (the only three…

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Closer To The Heart

I have a friend who shares my love of music. We play a game where we use song lyrics and titles to carry on a conversation. The game often begins with one of us texting an obscure lyric and then waiting for a response. Most of the time, this leads to both of us listening…

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The Best-Laid Grass

While spending two days discussing high beam planning with the officer team, we had a second-floor overview of an intriguing process. In the center of the grass courtyard below us, workers began removing sod from a carefully measured circle about 50 feet in diameter. We learned from one of the workers that they were raising…

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Let Freedom Ring

Popular use of the phrase “let freedom ring” comes from its use in the song “America” (My Country, ‘Tis of Thee), written by Samuel Francis Smith in 1831. Dr. Martin Luther King referenced both the song and the phrase in his famous speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August…

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