Category: hmm… thoughts
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5 Simple Pleasures I am Digging Right Now
I like big and fancy things as much as the next person. But sometimes it’s the little things in life that just rock. Here are five simple pleasures I’m digging right now. Evening walks with my lady friend. Seriously, it doesn’t matter what happened good or bad during the day. But a nice long walk with…
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Two Stories, One Story, Our Story
Pedro We met Pedro completely randomly. I had a stomach ache, so sitting around the church was just a reminder of the discomfort I was experiencing. Rob and Ross, my compatriots and Praying Pelican staffers, were stir crazy. We decide to go for a little walk around the lake just to see what we could…
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Here’s to the curious
Have you ever woken up with the thought, “I wonder why sardines do that?” and then spent four hours on a Saturday watching videos on YouTube, tracking down the latest on sardine research, or wondering about the first people who decided sardines needed to be paired with mustard?
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Glass
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. — Genesis 1:27 If we are image bearers of God. We are made of glass, fragile in comparison to the One we reflect.
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It might just be the content…
I’ve been the recipient of a lot of back-sided compliments because of my blog. “I’m amazed how consistent your blog is– how do you find the time to post?” (Instead of, “I’ve been reading your blog for years. It’s cool how you’ve kept my attention for that long.”) “Where do you find the time to…
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Hello Candy
On New Year’s Eve we stood around our little kitchen butcher block talking to the kids about 2013. We shared some plans we knew about, some things we were hoping for in the new year, and then we turned it on them. “What’s your new year’s resolution going to be?” Our kids aren’t exactly forward-looking.…
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The Problem with “The Number Is” Thinking
As a small business owner, I have a number in mind for what my business must make each month. It’s an actual number based on the amount of money the business needs to make so we can pay all of our bills and ourselves. Here is something that I’ve been wrestling with lately: The number,…
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John F. Kennedy on Gratitude
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John F. Kennedy, assassinated this day in 1962
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Theodore Roosevelt on Criticism
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who…
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A rant on the National Mortgage Settlement letter I received
You stole my house and you want me to accept $840? Here’s my rant to share what I think about that.