Giving up desserts, pastries, candy can feel like deprivation, like the winter of our discontent. But a healthy way of eating, moving into a balanced mind, to a life of promises fulfilled can be like the rare beauty of a […]
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For All the Saints
People born before 1900. Pop, my paternal grandfather, was a circuit-riding Methodist preacher, taught in his youth in a rural one-room school, got the attention of the farmer boys by lifting a boulder they could not move in clearing an […]
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“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no […]
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Defense Attorney: Why would there be a presumption of innocence and a requirement for proof beyond a reasonable doubt written into our laws? Venireman: Because of the Spanish Inquisition. It’s an answer I would not have reached. Maybe the thought […]
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You think that the goal is to be over there, and we say the goal is the journey over there; the goal is the fun you have along the way on your way to over there. ~Abraham Daddy driving a […]
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