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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Weedeating
I hated to weedeat. I never wanted to do it again. I thought that if I killed the grass, I wouldn’t have to do it again. Every spin of the plastic blades was murder. I wanted the grass to die. And it did. But something worse returned. Bare ground, like power, abhors a vacuum. There is…
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Mindset
One of the words I kept hearing over and over in 2013 was “mindset”. Mindset is kind of the new hip way to describe what our elders used to call “attitude“. A mindset can be positive or negative, just like an attitude. A positive mindset is about overcoming limiting thoughts and having an abundance mentality.…
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Are you just going to stand there?
I was standing with my family, talking and waiting for the parade to start. It was that time of year again. The Pork Festival had come to town and today was the big day. On Saturday, there is a big parade and everyone who wants to see it lines up along the parade route for…
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Mind your manners and mix your metaphors
During a rain storm last week, I saw a caterpillar scooting across the sidewalk. He was trying to get from one rain soaked area of grass, to another. It seemed like he was going in a new direction to a better, drier place, but he was really going to end up in a location much…
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4 Steps from Wanting to Receiving
I went to bed last night thinking about my experience earlier in the day with my daughter at the gas station. We walked there to get my wife a coke, but had some “extra” money to get her some candy. When we walked through the candy aisle, she started looking at the bags of candy…
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Attitude…How You Lean
In light of the US Airways flight that safely crash landed into the Hudson River yesterday, my mind raced through what I might do in such a situation, both as a passenger, and as the pilot. As a passenger, I would probably break the “no cell phones during flight” rule and call my children, if…