Month: May 2026
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There’s Nothing Happy About Memorial Day
Reading Time: 4 minutesI originally posted this on May 30, 2023. Based on some of the conversations I had yesterday with friends and family, and because I’m too emotionally wrung out right now to write, I offer this post, timely then and timely now. *************** In the truest spirit of the “holiday”, there’s nothing happy… Read more
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Every Day, Run-of-the-Mill Miracles
Reading Time: 5 minutesOver the past 4 years, as Randy has written posts for Our High Places, he often details what he calls God Winks. He and I first heard the term God Winks years and years ago when we became friends with a much older couple. Randy was still running our pressure washing service… Read more
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Welcome Home, Veteran Heroes
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the book I’ve recommended several times on this blog, The Women by Kristin Hannah, there is a scene where the main character, Frankie, an Army Nurse, rotates back to the United States in 1969 after 2 tours in Vietnam. She is wearing her uniform. The Los Angeles airport is filled with… Read more
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A Deluge of Emotion
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Honor Flight Randy and I were privileged to be selected for took place a week ago today. Since that day I’ve been racking my brain to think of a word to describe how overwhelmingly emotional it was. It is with 100% certainty I tell you I am still not recovered from… Read more