Tag: Featured Blogs
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We Are Still All Connected.
Thank you JH, “Dear God,You’re gonna need to help out today.If people in my life need some comfort and reassurance, it can’t really come from me today because I am in need of the same. I just can’t just blow sunshine up anyone’s ass today, Lord, so I ask that you send what they need,…
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The Struggle The Scars And The Silver Lining Part 1
Have you ever seen the movie Field Of Dreams? It’s a great story about redemption, forgiveness, regret, and hope. But it also speaks to just how connected we truly are. At least I think so. Well, it has a part in this story. But let me start with an event that occurred a couple of…
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The Mountains Win Again
#TBT a day late. This one comes to you from 1994. Do you remember what you were doing then? It was a year of transition for me. 94′ was a year that sort of redefined my life. I had left the Navy and began searching for what was next. I was in neutral. But, we…
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#TBT Roll With The Changes
If this last year has taught me anything it’s that you must accept change and adapt. This great ball of confusion never stops turning. If anything, it only spins faster. If you don’t learn to roll with the changes, you will fly right off into space like a kid flying off a merry-go-round spinning too…
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Stormy Monday In October
October is my favorite month of the year. I love the changes in colors and the cooler air. I feel more alive. But with that fresh picked joy comes some intense emotion and anxiety. It’s the same every year. I feel greater joy and greater anti-joy at the same time. There is a powerful connection…
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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 People Profiles: Mary
StreetLights original post August 9, 2018 I like to repost this one for Memorial day. #Peopleprofiles Mary Yesterday, I had the honor of providing a ride to an incredible woman named Mary. Mary is 92 years old and by her own words “feels great!” She only has a flip phone so she utilizes a service…
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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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All My Empty Spaces Part 5: Love
December 23rd, 2021 Lately, there have been many sleepless nights. My family has endured some very difficult times over the last two years. As we try to process the heartache and sadness we have endured, it has left us anxious, angry, and at times, totally confused as to which is up and which is down.…
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