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You breathe a perfect breath  I’m listening like a lonely sinner Hearing the last sermon on earth Here in the darkness I see things in a different light My love is a helpless balloon  Rising endlessly in the night  The … Continue reading

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Talking about Cycling: YikeBike – The world’s first super light electric folding bike

This is pretty cool. http://www.yikebike.com/site/ It’s an electric folding bike. The incredibly small size, suitable speed, and handsome design make this one of the few true innovations to come along in decades for two-wheeled transportation.   I’d much rather have one … Continue reading

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Top Rock Albums of 2009

OK—If you’ve read my tech blog, you know that I regularly post the “Rock Thought of The Day” as a little add-on to my technical info. I’m adding a longer entry here (with no computer techno mumbo-jumbo) of my choices … Continue reading

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Moving Toward “Total Sedation Airtravel” or T.S.A.

For nearly all of us, especially after 911 if not before, air travel has become loathsome in nearly every way. Now, with the newly proposed TSA measures in response to the 25 December attempt to destroy Delta Flight 253, things … Continue reading

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Deep Calls To Deep

David, the historic king of Israel and composer of many psalms, was more like Bob Dylan than a politician or bureaucrat. Take for example these words from Psalms 42:7-8 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: All … Continue reading

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Steven’s “Gratitude List”

My son, Steven (4), wrote down the things for which he felt grateful yesterday. Here’s what he came up with. I love the double-mention of pasta! My familyThe missionariesJesusThe prophetChurch buildingGymnastics preschoolFoam pitMy roomBrothersWhite Sauce and noodlesMyselfMy testimony and the … Continue reading

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What Do We Really Want?

Over the decades of my life, I have been able to see at very close range the impact of a full spectrum of choices in the lives of others and myself. Some of the choices and their consequences I have … Continue reading

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I Am Rain That Was Meant to Pour

This is the kind of lonely song that comes from wearing my heart on my sleeve for one woman.  I Am Rain That Was Meant to Pour Only true love can truly hurt It’s ours, but we don’t get any … Continue reading

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A Safe With No Walls

(From my hand-written journal yesterday while on a plane over the Atlantic) I think, in the end, Heaven is a place where all our love, like every perfect feeling I have for Carolyn and my boys, goes. And, those feelings— … Continue reading

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Giving & Receiving = Charity

Giving is vital. But, it is also good to receive. I am not talking about selfishly taking. I’m talking about humbly receiving. Too often, our pride, stubbornness, or other feelings get in the way of receiving what is selflessly, graciously, … Continue reading

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