Tag: StreetLightsOnASaturdayNight
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The Unnecessary Hate
If we are all made in God’s image, then why are so many of us persecuted, shamed, and cast out for simply being who we are, how God supposedly made us? Short side rant… I will never understand book burners. If they truly thought burning books would help, they should have started with the Bible.…
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The Checklist
#drivingawaydepression Sully!! What an awesome pilot whose actions saved the lives of everyone on US Airways flight 1549 when they struck multiple geese and had to land in the Hudson river. It has since been called the Miracle on the Hudson. Miracle? Maybe. Or just incredibly well trained and experienced pilots. A pilot is trained…
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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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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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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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All My Empty Spaces Part 3: Peace
Personal peace. It was just after midnight when Ricardo brought the snacks consisting graham crackers, peanut butter, diet shasta, and a plastic sealed turkey and cheese on white (made by Goodyear). It was remarkably delicious, given it was the first thing I had to eat since breakfast; which comprised of powedered eggs, 1 slice of…
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All My Empty Spaces Part 1: Faith
I have a messy mind and my writing is a process of cleaning up the mess.-Judy Blume I know I have used that quote before but I love it. And, it truly describes my own mind and process. Actually thinking of putting it in everything I write. When I was twelve or possibly thirteen, I…
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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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