Category: Beliefs
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How To Vote
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I am going to give you a quick lesson on how to pick your candidates. Probably the most important thing an American can do in our democracy, which is actually a representative republic, is often relegated to listening to 30 second attack ads and a biased propaganda machine. If you…
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I Really Am Sorry But That’s No Excuse
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I am really sorry I haven’t been around for a while. I have been “sleeping in” until 4 or even 4:30 and so have barely even gotten to my e-mail. It is hard to write updates when the house is full of people. The laptop is officially dead and while…
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The Visitor
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I have seen it around in various forms and perhaps you have, too. The message is pretty clear. It is not original with me, but I wish it were. Feel free to copy it and send it around. I am still working on a couple of entries as I wait…
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Remember! Remember! Remember!
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This is a reprint from one I found a couple of years ago that I think is even more relevant now. I found this floating around a couple of places and do not know who the author is. I wish I had written it, but I didn’t. If it belongs…
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Funeral Visit
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I would so much like to thank all of you for your prayers, kind thoughts and words of encouragement. The trip was long. I was thankful to have learned a lot from reading Pops’s accounts of his father’s last days because I was somewhat prepared for the emotional roller-coaster ride.…
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Update 7-22-06
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Thanks to all of you for your kind words and encouraging comments and everyone’s support. I especially wish to thank Pops, for writing so eloquently and often poignantly about his father’s last days. It has been comforting in this time since mom has gotten sick. She is steadily declining to…
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Update As Of 7-19-06
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Not much time to update since the laptop went belly-up but here are a couple of things, “hot off the wire.” Mom was in the hospital last couple of days, didn’t sound very good at all, but they pulled her through. My brothers, who live there in Shawano area, had…