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Month: September 2020

Posted on September 30, 2020September 29, 2020

Contributing kids

"In an agrarian society, kids realize their worth because parents really need them. Today with day-care, etc., they never realize how worthwhile they are."--John D.…

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Posted on September 29, 2020September 29, 2020

Failure, the coach

High performers tend to hate failure. Some of them hate it so much, they will deliberately not engage if they feel there is a decent…

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Posted on September 28, 2020September 28, 2020

Do you know them?

We teach our kids (rightly) not to talk (too much) to strangers. My children are working to learn their community--trying to remember names and faces.…

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Posted on September 26, 2020

Translation

Long words save time because they carry the meaning of longer sentences, even paragraphs, of information. Can you translate yourself? Can you break it down…

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Posted on September 25, 2020September 24, 2020

You hangry?

It took Diedra and me longer than we care to admit to notice that we were getting in petty arguments right before dinner. Eat some…

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Posted on September 24, 2020September 23, 2020

Names gene?

"I'm not a names person." "For the life of me, I can't remember people's names." I've heard that there's a neurological reason we find it…

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Posted on September 23, 2020September 22, 2020

On friendship

C.S. Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, and J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were friends.…

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Posted on September 22, 2020September 21, 2020

You come too

The Pasture By Robert Frost I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water…

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Posted on September 21, 2020September 19, 2020

Concerns and responsibilities

My pastor, mentor, and friend, Pastor Mark Biehl, regularly and gently reminds us that our areas of concern will always exceed our areas of responsibility.…

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Posted on September 19, 2020September 17, 2020

Refresh them

What is it about flying that makes the beverage service so refreshing? When we lived in Dallas we were regularly picking up guests from the…

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