Category: Musings
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Harper, the Baby Seal…Robot
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have a caring, faithful, selfless friend named Carla who is a volunteer for a non-profit hospice program. Carla’s been working with hospice for years, something I don’t think I could ever do. She is an amazing woman whom I’ve been privileged to call friend for close to 45 years now. I… Read more
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can put your whole life on hold waiting to emerge into the light at the end of the tunnel. What I mean is that there’s always something that’s going to happen in the future that you think is the end of whatever you’re going through right now. And you’re always… Read more
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Rethinking God
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow many times have you believed something to be true for a very, very long time, only to find out that what you thought you knew to be true might not be true at all? Sounds like I’m setting you up for a trick question, doesn’t it? I’m not. And what does… Read more
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Why Not Say What You Mean?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have an Associate’s Degree in Marketing. It’s been interesting to me, over the years, to watch the language of our culture change to put the best possible spin on the baloney that happens so they can shape and control our opinions and thoughts. Words I grew up with, like gay,… Read more
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The 4th Quarter (of Your Life)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor my birthday last week a friend gave me a copy of a book called No Regrets and its accompanying workbook, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life. No Regrets is a quick read, a parable of sorts, and Randy and I both read it in a couple of hours. We started… Read more
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Anniversaries and Other Dates
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the problems with retirement and aging is that time kind of all runs together. As the years roll by, memories start fraying. I don’t have any problem remembering spectacularly momentous things, but Lordy, I have a problem remembering when things happen. I’m not talking about minor things here. I’m talking… Read more
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If Money Were No Object
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I was contemplating subject matter for this week’s post, nothing inspired me. Absolutely nothing. So, here it is, Tuesday morning, 7:38 am, and though I mostly wrote a post yesterday on minimalism, it was (as I mentioned) completely uninspiring. It had no purpose and would be an effort of which I… Read more
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Snow? Ah….NO!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI saw a picture on Facebook the other day of the snow that’s falling in the mountains of California. I thought it would make a good post, but couldn’t find that particular photo again. But I did find this one. Oh Lord, the news article said that more than 400 inches… Read more
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I Have an Idea
Reading Time: 4 minutesRandy and I were driving down to Naples this weekend to spend the day with sister Lisa, brother Denny (from Wisconsin) and their spouses, Jim and Marlene. As we often do, one of us said something that triggered a reminder of a bit of a song from our past. In this case,… Read more
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A Perfect Life
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAllow me to wax philosophical for one minute. I am content, quietly happy and fully satisfied. I have enough. I am at peace, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. I am happy to be alive and living in paradise every day. There is nothing I need or want that I don’t have the… Read more