Category: Musings
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That Wasn’t So Bad
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Tuesday I wrote about my love/hate relationship with smart phones. I was in the dread phase of the hate end of the relationship that morning because we had an appointment to get new cell phones on Wednesday. Today is Friday morning and Randy and I are both chock full of relief.… Read more
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Just the Facts, Ma’am
Reading Time: 6 minutesAs we contemplated whether or not to undertake the Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Road Trip, we greatly considered the cost of the adventure. I’m a relative cheapskate which is why, Randy claims, we have the money to even consider doing something of this magnitude. Part of the considerations, as I’ve written… Read more
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Glacier NP, Bucket List Experience – Check!
Reading Time: 4 minutesLynn and Dave have been married 47 years. Before they wed, a friend of Dave’s asked him to go with him to Glacier National Park. The plan was to explore the area on horseback. His friend figured they’d have one of the greatest adventures of their young lives. He didn’t go back… Read more
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This Could Now Be Home
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I was planning for this Grand Adventure Road Trip (GART) I made a spreadsheet detailing the duration of the adventure. Each row on the spreadsheet represented one night. The columns keep track of where we spent the night, how many miles we drive, and how much money we spent on food,… Read more
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What If…Our Souls are Eternal. And Eternally Active.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere’s no controversy over whether or not humans have a soul. I can’t think of a single person who doesn’t believe that. Most people, including Christians, believe that our souls are eternal which, by definition means lasting or existing forever, without beginning or end. Where the controversy starts is when those souls… Read more
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An Unexpected, Thoughtful Gift
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of days ago Randy and I got a package in the mail. In it was perhaps one of the most unexpected and thoughtful gifts we’ve ever received. The package was sent by our financial advisor and her office administrator in honor of our upcoming Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure… Read more
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What If…There’s No Money in a Healthy Population
Reading Time: 5 minutesImagine an America in which you had to go to a specialty store to get any clothes size with an X in it. Imagine an America in which you know almost no one taking prescription medicine. Imagine an America in which only 1 in 2,000 children are diagnosed with autism (as in… Read more
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What if…Government is Untrustworthy
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe United States of America, in the late 18th century, formed a country and adopted a constitution like no other nation on earth. For the first time in recorded history the citizens of a governmental entity chose to codify how the people of the country are sovereign and the government’s authority over… Read more
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Dump, Dumpy, Dumpster
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome derivative of the word dump seems to be my expression of the week. And it’s been a great week. It started as I began pulling our warm clothes stash out of the hidden recesses of our closets to see what we still have that might work for the Alaskan cruise. We… Read more
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What If…
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat if we never lost our child-like wonder? What if we really knew our purpose? What if we are living in a computer simulation and nothing is real? What if we found out that most everything we believe to be true is really not? What if the world is destroyed by some… Read more