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Entries from January 30th, 2009

25 Random Things About Myself

January 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Blogging, Friends, Inspirational, Philosophical, Reflections

[Note:  This tag thing (see title above) has been making the rounds of Facebook.  (Why did I ever join up two months ago?  I thought I was getting away from tagging!)  Here's part of the "rules" below: Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, [...]

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Where Did the White Man Go Wrong?

January 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Humor, Uncategorized

   Indian Chief ‘Two Eagles’ was asked by a white government official, ‘You have observed the white man for 90 years. You’ve seen his wars and his technological advances. You’ve seen his progress, and the damage he’s done.’ The Chief nodded in agreement. The official continued, ‘Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did [...]

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The Perils of Winter & Other Observations

January 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Humor, Uncategorized

One of my readers sent me several of these Reverend Fun cartoons last week and for some reason, I thought this one was absolutely hilarious.  It really struck my funny bone. It also got me to thinking about baptisms gone bad.  You know what I mean.  In fact, Patrick Mead ran a couple of posts [...]

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What Can I Say? These Say It All

January 22nd, 2009 · 7 Comments · Humor, Tom & Me

A year and a half after moving into our new house, we’ll still opening boxes and finding some neat things we’d long forgotten about.  Like these two items below.  They were in the same box of photos and it’s funny how they immediately made me think of each other.  Take a look and see what [...]

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Laura & Michael Bubba

January 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Dee's Family, Families, Uncategorized

 Me?  I’m not a "dog person."  Laura – my sister – is.  As you can tell, from the photo above.   There she is, flat on the floor so that she can go eye to eye with Michael Maxwell a/k/a Michael Bubba. Actually, Michael Bubba is the name I gave her cute little puppy when [...]

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Thoughts on Friendship

January 16th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Families, Inspirational

Oh, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow [...]

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Know Your Neighbors. Then What? Buy A Gun?

January 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Perspective, Tom & Me

[Note at 5 pm:  Due to the comment left while ago by my blogging friend, Wendy, about felonyspy.com I have deleted several paragraphs of my post below that dealt with that link and my responses to it.  Instead, here's the Snope link that discusses it, if you have any questions:  http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/felonspy.asp.  I apologize for not [...]

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