Category: StreetLights on a Saturday night
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: Janet
Well, here we are, in September! School is back. Football is back! There is a hint of fall in the air. Fall happens to be my favorite season. October is definitely my favorite month. I decided to repost this story as a reminder duringthis upcoming holiday season and, well, in any season, be careful not…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: The House Of The Lord
From the unpublished notes… Before I had to hang it up for health reasons, I drove over 6200 Uber and Lyft trips. Best guess, at least 20,000 different people rode with me over the 4 years I drove. While I have shared some of those stories, there were many more people who made an impression…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: Sisyphus
“We like to think we are rational beings who occasionally have an emotion and flick it away,” and carry on being rational. But rather, she says: “We are emotional, feeling beings; who, on rare occasions, think.”Brené Brown Let me start with a small introduction on Sisyphus. “Sisyphus was a cruel Greek king who was punished…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: The Longest Trip Part 2 of 2.
March 4, 2019 StreetLights on a Saturday Night The Longest Trip part 2 of 2. As I made my way back up I35 from Waco, I received a request in Midlothian. The pickup location was 30 minutes from my current position, just north of Czech Stop. I accepted the trip. If not, I wasn’t going…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: The Longest Trip Part 1 of 2
I wrote this post below on March 4, 2019, not long after I had a heart attack and received 2 stents. I got a third a few months later. Now, as I write this update to the story, my father is in the hospital in Carson City. He and his wife live in Reno, but…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: The Importance Of Now
Hi welcome to Chic-fil-A. Can I have a name for the order? The sun is setting here in Arlington, TX. A sunny but chilly day has melted away most of the ice and snow from our biggest winter event of the season. That’s just another weekday for northerners. Our landscape has lost the bright white…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: Finding Joy
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, being normal is my greatest lust. Reality bites but you know what you get. It is the dream and hope where I place my bet. Finding joy is a diificult task when you don’t know where to look.But the truth and solution to this enigma, is realizing that you…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: Phoenix
From his Daily Meditation, April 4, 2021, Easter Sunday… Today we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which allows faithful Christians to trust that, indeed, all will be well. I like to think of the resurrection as God’s way of telling us that God can take the worst thing in the world—the killing of the…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: Oscar
StreetLights On A Saturday Night: Rerun from 2019. The Uber Machine is still garaged due to Covid19. #Peopleprofiles Oscar When Oscar was 11 years old, he suffered a traumatic accident. Oscar was leaning on a shotgun when it suddenly went off, destroying his left arm below the elbow. He lost his left hand and part…
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StreetLights On A Saturday Night: A Tale Of Two Felons
A Tale of Two Felons Tom A few years ago, my next-door neighbor, Mark, decided to buy another house and rent the one by us. After a few months of living next to an empty house, Mark finally found a renter, Tom. From day one, Tom was a great neighbor and we became friends. We…
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