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History
Posing and playing in costumes of old, we snapped pictures for a fictitious newspaper article. Teenaged girls with spiral perms trying to play like we were crusty old barnacles of men, skilled at their craft on the high seas. Two sailors featured in photos with towering oak trees as a backdrop. Makes sense, right? Well,…
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My Own Two Eye
Rumbling across the desert sands of West Africa, two white Toyota pick-up trucks headed to a village found only via GPS and sunlight. Passing the time with funny stories and passing random travelers headed somewhere in the middle of nowhere, we headed to our destination. Hours into the rugged off-road distance. Out of habit, our…
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Best Life
Live your best life. What exactly does that look like for you? What is the best of the best, and how do we aspire to live in such a precise peak of existence? Depends on who you ask, who defines your terms, and who decides what the “best” looks like. Every time the world rallies…
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Paper Chains
Positioned in a hard plastic chair, perched up high to reach the table, the craft time begins. Reaching for little strips of colored construction paper, little people line up supplies. Growing fingers grabbing and stacking, sorting and planning. Finding the glue, or stapler, or tape, it begins. Busy fingers looping paper into a larger plan.…
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Flip the Script
Flip the script. Change the default. Which direction will your brain go when all those daily thoughts kick in? Negativity or positivity. Two directions. Two choices. We have a choice. Every second of every day. Sometimes it takes every single one of those seconds for us to make a single second-long positive change. Sometimes right…
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About Me
A plain old Jesus follower who understands more each day what it means to embrace the grace of God, and glorify Him in the simple things of life.
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