After scanning 1600 slides (and who knows how many negatives) I can't help but remember my first camera, and my first photo contest.
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Help! (I need sombody)
Many years ago there was a song written and performed by a very popular group:
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The Panic Attack
It happened sometime in late summer or the fall of 1991, the exact date I can’t remember during a year I don’t care to remember, not all that much anyway.
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Find Your Place (money can't buy it)
Like a bird that flees its nest is anyone who flees from his place.
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The Black Ribbon
I wanted to write something today and then this 2014 post from my FMCA blogging days popped up in Facebook Memories, so I thought “Why not repost it here?” So I did.
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Five Thousand Words
I read somewhere that the average person speaks between five thousand and twenty thousand words a day.
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2 + 1
Today Diane and I are having our wedding anniversary. It is our 50th. We met when we were both 17 years old. That means we have been friends for over 51 years.
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50 Years
50 years, hard to believe how good they have been, and how blessed I am to have had them with my best friend in life.
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A Philosophical Self Discussion
On more than one occasion in my past as an employee or friend or even a family member, I have found myself being “accused” of being an idealist.
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Gary, Diane and Janis, outside Tamarack.
Remembering Elkhart
This is the story I wrote back in 2010, about that trip the four of us, five if you count Nicholas, our Cocker Spaniel, took together to Elkhart, Indiana.
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Wisdom Revisited
The Bible talks a lot about wisdom. The word wisdom appears over 200 times in any translation of the Bible. It is used 46 times in the book of Proverbs alone.
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Talbot Park Babtist Church
Y'all Pray For Me Now!
My Mom and Dad have a lot of pictures hanging on the walls of their home. They also have a lot of plates. The kind that used to be popular years ago, with pictures of tourist places and churches
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Mercy
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Faith and Facts
People have asked me, in times past, how can you believe there is a God when there is so much evil in the world? It seems so stupid!
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Three Part Question
Have you ever looked back over your life and realized that there were things that could have happened, bad things, but did not happen because the Lord God Intervened?
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David and Nathan
You Are The Man!
Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end
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Unsplash Image by Tanner Mardis
When Real Life Meets God
I am sitting here at my laptop trying not to complain out loud.
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Are You Making God Sick?
You may be thinking, What a terrible question to ask. How can anyone make God Sick? Is that even possible? What does that have to do with Fire?
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Have you read this?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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The Look
Attitude
When I was a young kid, I got into trouble a bit. I brought a lot of that trouble upon myself because I "took an attitude." That is exactly what my Mom used to say. "Don't you take that attitude with me!" or "Don't you give me that look!"
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