Posted at 20:12h
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My younger son bought me a new pair of dress shoes. My old pair is twenty years old and my family told me they looked it. Since it was evident I was not going to trade them in, (one becomes attached to old friends) he...
Posted at 21:41h
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Someday the game show Jeopardy will post the following answer, “Clyde Tombaugh.” And they will accept the following question, “Who is the first human being to fly beyond our solar system?” Today, after a nine and a half year journey of flying over 51,000 miles...
Posted at 20:46h
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Perhaps in an attempt to make the world a better place, if only in our fantasies, we have filled our culture with a host of fictional super heroes. Summer movies, comic books, novels, television series entertain us with good guys, often existentially conflicted, fighting evil....
Posted at 20:55h
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This afternoon I stood in front of a glass box containing a manikin fortune teller. For a dollar I could put my hand on the glass and the seer would read my palm by comparing my life line, etc. to a preprogrammed template. Obviously I...
Posted at 23:06h
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Having gone for a walk in the forest this afternoon we all had to detick when we got home. It’s very difficult to walk in the forest without harvesting a crop that is ready to eat you. The coyotes and bears move away from you...
Posted at 19:53h
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Two of my granddaughters are sitting close by me watching a Netflix program on a laptop. Each of them is also playing a game on their cell-phones. At first the seeming duality of their interest span intrigued me but then I realized this is not...
Posted at 21:44h
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Our house is full of grandchildren for the week. I think my wife’s face is going to crack from smiling so much. Five of six are here. The sixth, the oldest, has joined the world of work. Alas, the end of her childhood has come. ...
Posted at 21:35h
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Laura Bassett and her English soccer team were on their way to the final game of the 2015 World Cup when the ultimate nightmare became a reality. In an attempt to clear the ball from the area near her net she inadvertently kicked the ball...
Posted at 21:57h
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Surely people are the most interesting thing God has created. We come in an infinite array of shapes, colors, weights, ages and intelligence. This afternoon I watched a wisp of an elderly lady dine. Her dyed hair did not disguise her life experience. What amazed...
Posted at 20:38h
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If they had been red-winged blackbirds we would have been bloodied. Instead they were robins and we were merely royally scolded. We had come too close to a baby just out of the nest. I must say they put up a significant defense. The little...