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How and Why and What Have We Become?

How exactly did we go wrong?

Was it by manufacturing such a thing as a gun in the first place?

Was it by allowing them to be sold?

Was it by adoring books and movies and video games that portray shootings?

Was it by assuming that a public places are safe, and not creating enough safety nets?

Was it cutting the police force so that there aren’t enough officers to protect individuals from harm?

Was…

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Inspired Refreshes, Disturbs

This is a book that explores the meaning of the inspiration of the Bible. It is also a book about one woman’s faith. For Evans, ‘Inspiration is not about some disembodied ethereal voice dictating words to a catatonic host. It’s a collaborative process, a holy give-and-take, a partnership between Creator and creator.’

The departure from the traditional view of inspiration, that every word was…

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Duh

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Changes to the Wordpress Sharon Link

Changes to the WordPress Sharon Link

Trying this again

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Happy (I think) Birthday America!

The next time you celebrate your birthday, be sure to invite all your friends and family so they can sit around and pick you apart piece by wretched piece. Then let them eat cake. Or watch fireworks. Oh, and make sure everyone has a day off.

Don’t mind me, I’ve been reading my twitter feed.

It’s been fashionable for several decades to delve into the details of the patriot’s lives and judge them…

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Flag Day: Shameless Plug for Spirit of America Drama Camp Imagine America without the flag. Enough said.

Twitter and My Opinions

It’s so easy to pound out a stinging reply to a complete stranger on Twitter. Or a gushing one. I’ve been guilty of both.

Lately I’ve been wondering what purpose I serve on Twitter, and it’s sobering. I think it’s not much different from the purpose I serve in ‘real life’. It’s just so tempting to feel as if I’m part of the Great Conversation and blather on.

I’ve been pausing before tweeting, and…

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The Privilege of Reading

I’ve been a lifelong reader. I came by it honestly. My mother is a reader, as was my grandmother. I believe I could count on one hand the days in my adult life I have not picked up a book to read.

Through books I interact with people I will never meet, some long dead, some too famous or far away to ever have a chance of meeting. Through books I have learned to value good writing and to critique…

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Crown of Souls; a Review

My apologies to the author Ronie Kendig and publisher Bethany House for the delay in getting this review out.

Crown of Souls was a difficult read for me. The book is 470 pages. Print is normally like food to me, so the difficulty lay elsewhere. Let me explain, but first the plot.

The story begins in the middle of the action, with a gunshot wound on a beach. ‘Tox’ Russel, a toughened soldier of…

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Dark Place

Life can be a dark place, but not as scary if you realize whose wings you are under.

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The In-between

No one that I’ve ever met likes to wait. Waiting involves uncertainty, since we cannot predict the future. Science tells us that objects have ‘space’ between them. What appears ‘solid’ is, if we could see at more fine resolution, not really ‘solid’. This state can be said to have ‘possibility’. Obviously, I know next to nothing about this except that life seems to behave this way. In the middle…

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Things I Learned While My Husband Was Sick

Those of you who know me and my husband know that the sickness I’m referring to is not as dire as this post might suggest. Many of you were my support group on facebook during a couple really bad days, and I’m so appreciative. He is, as far as I can tell, on the mend. I’m grateful. Although I never would wish illness on anyone, there were a few ‘aha’ moments for me and I feel you all deserve to…

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I Will I will heed the call of ages and stand with my shoulders tall. I will refuse to be felled by an imaginary future. I will live this moment in gratitude. I will look at my life and see privilege. I will go on moving in the middle of uncertainty. I will bolster my faith with a song. I will look at evil and see good. I will shoulder the terror that has crept into my heart with courage. I am…

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Tune It Up

Piano tuner here today. Our new Shigeru Kawai, as beautiful as it already sounds, needed it’s first inaugural tuning after being moved from the factory in Japan to Sacramento, Ca to Modesto, Ca. For some reason the musical game app we use with our students won’t work with the c. He’s working with it now to fine tune it. Funny thing how musical pitch works. The sound is in the air; you can’t see…

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Out with the Old, In with the New

It is a beautiful thing to stand between one year and the next. The passage in time by years puts such a fine point on one’s life. Although it may often seem as if years crawl by, it never seems so when you’re at the end of one. I love the discarding process nature gives us each fall as she sheds her leafy last year’s clothing and waits, naked, to be clothed again. So now we stand naked before a…

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Merry Day

For one day, forget the ills that abound around you. Forget what you do not have, your failings. Forget that your neighbor may not agree with your political views. Forget what you have left undone, what you have to do tomorrow. Forget your diet, your soon to be made resolutions. Pause on this, the morning that makes all new. Revel in the richest gift ever given, the one whose love makes love…

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