Tag: StreetLightsOnASaturdayNight
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Two For Tuesday: February 4th, 2025 Love and Marriage
These days I wonder if we should perhaps consider our national identity as a marriage between two basic perspectives. Clearly, the honeymoon is long forgotten as we are currently separated with no reconcilliation in sight. Guess what, as with any marriage, at least any marriage that involves kids, there is more at stake than just…
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No Love For Wednesday
Have you ever noticed Fridays and Saturdays get all the best songs? Sundays and Mondays have been sung about as well. Even Tuesday has a few hits. But there isn’t a whole lotta love for Wednesday. I mean Tori Amos, Prince, even Simon and Garfunkel have written songs about Wednesday. But somehow they aren’t the…
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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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Streetlights On A Friday Night: We Are All Connected
For Mom, Tough day? Rough week? Where is the peace and solace you seek? Is the pain overwhelming? Does every movement cause more pain? Is this isolation all you have left in this world? Is there nothing more to gain? October, my favorite month. The weather changes, the heat finally relents. Football, fireflies, colorful trees,…
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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.…
