Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

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Entries Tagged as 'Movies; Music'

"Hymn to Hope" by Secret Garden

August 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Inspirational, Movies; Music, Photos, Videos, Spirituality, Uncategorized

May we all as Christians be reminded of our hope in Jesus Christ, Our Lord, and be inspired as we listen to this beautiful, poignant rendition of “Hymn to Hope” by Secret Garden.”
God bless us every one, as we journey on this road we call life together in our walk with the Lord.  In Jesus [...]

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Julian Plays Violin on Classical Radio in Dallas

February 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Families, Movies; Music, Tom's Family, Uncategorized

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Tom’s grandson, Julian Nguyen, a 10th grader, was on a Dallas classical radio station Thursday playing an excerpt from a Beethoven Sonata on his violin.  His companion was a young lady who is a pianist and a high school senior. 
The two were featured members on the station’s lunch time program in a big [...]

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Slip, Slidin' Away*

September 9th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Health, Movies; Music, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Sorry I haven’t been around the past few days.  
It’s a long story not worth the telling.
But yesterday, and full force today, I’m not feeling well at all with a sore throat and cold like symptoms.  Got it from Tom, I guess.  I feel plain lousy.
In fact, I feel like I’m slip, slidin’ away, as [...]

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The Good Shepherd

January 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Humor, Movies; Music, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

We went to see "The Good Shepherd" last night, which is the story of how the CIA got its beginnings in this country back during and immediately following World War II.  It’s a fictional account, but is "based on" reality, whatever that really means. 
It was a very long movie presented in a very slow [...]

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Odds & Ends to End the Year

December 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Blogging, Humor, Movies; Music, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

I slept really late yesterday morning, being tired out still from Christmas Eve and Christmas day, and then woke up at 5:20 a.m. this morning.  
So – what’s the deal with that, anyway?  How can I win?  What would you do?
Me – it’s the holidays, but I guess I’ll blog!
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We got a tax bill from [...]

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I'b Got A Code & Cougff, But I'm Thankful

November 25th, 2006 · No Comments · Families, Friends, Historical, Humor, Movies; Music, Philosophical, Popcorn, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized, Wind Vane Stories

I’m sick.  
But we’ve had a great holiday weekend anyway.  I think I’ll live.  Our friends from Texas said when they got here and found out I had a cold, "You should have called us and told us not to come.  You should have let us know because we told you if you got sick [...]

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Odds & Ends

February 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Dee's Family, Families, Friends, Humor, Movies; Music

Just down the road, between here and downtown Slidell there’s a nice city sports park that has long had nicely trimmed shrubs on a small rise of ground out in front spelling out the name "John Slidell" in greenery. I know it’s been there since I lived in Picayune, Mississippi, and I left there in [...]

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