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Chasing Easter
Most Easters find me in motion, without emotions. I am aware, wish to care, but for all that I intend, mostly I just attend. I’VE BEEN ALIVE for 65 Easters. Discount the kiddie ones, that still leaves
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Saving My Bullets
In my youth I watched B Westerns. There was always a horse chase. No matter how flat the terrain, the good guy (white hat) and the bad guy (black hat) always found some mountain
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We Are Each A Quilt
Dear Reader, Someone asked me what turning 65 was like. I thought, ‘Aging is like being a quilt.’ Every House Had A Singer I am old enough to remember a childhood where every house
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Generational Character
I witnessed my father do a U-turn, to go back to a convenience store, because the clerk had given him too much change. Another young man of that generation, parents both dead, he
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And Now Comes 2022
2021 was a fast year. They do get that way, as you age. Aging is quite the mystery, in a million measurements. How one looks at time is something they don’t warn you about
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Hurricane Laura – The Book
Like We Were A Rented Mule Of the 329 million people in America in the year 2020, nobody had a harder year, than the 313 thousand people of Southwest Louisiana. The area’s largest city,
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Poor Childhood, Rich Life
If all you knew about Yvonne was this one picture, you might think she had a soft, easy life, maybe even born with a silver spoon. Not so, not so. She’s the second youngest
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The 2021 Hurricane Season
If I were a declaring type person, I’d declare the 2021 hurricane season over. (Weather type people play it safer. To them it’s not over until after Thanksgiving.) But even a Louisiana civilian
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Purpose For Average People
Tiger Woods was a kid, first time I saw him handle a golf club on TV. I reacted like someone in 1762 reacted, seeing six-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart play a piano for the king.
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Purpose for the Sake of Purpose
Two years ago, I was on the straight road, to purpose. Two years later, I pulled over to the shoulder. GPS can get me to Omaha, but it’s useless, for directions to purpose.
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