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15 Jan 2010

Haiti Disaster Relief

Prayers travel quickly, yet relief takes time. Operation USA has been delivering relief for 30 years and takes contributions of both money and miles (as well as other in-kind and corporate options.) They also have an option for donating specific to their Haiti operation. Life can be full of setbacks and disasters. We are all here [...]
15 January, 2010 at 1:49 by Fred

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16 Aug 2009

The In-Between Time

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. – Psalm 46:1 Normally Psalm 46 is quoted for the verse that comes late in this passage “Be still and know that I am God.” (verse 10).  And I admit it is one of my favorites — I know that God is ok with me stepping away [...]
16 August, 2009 at 21:51 by vonn

Tags: chaos, Psalm
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4 Aug 2009

Do we live thoughtfully or urgently?

A continuing burr under my saddle. Today someone sent me a document for review (via email) and wanted it back by the end of the day. I don’t have it scheduled as a “top of the list” item today — nor will I tomorrow. But because email is instantaneous and we have managed [...]
4 August, 2009 at 20:13 by vonn

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8 Feb 2009

The Real Magic Is in Your Passion

996468-070.jpg “Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.   We all derive from the same source.  There is no mystery about the origin of things.  We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to [...]
8 February, 2009 at 5:35 by vonn

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6 Feb 2009

Texting Gone Mad

Last month my son and girlfriend exchanged 5,000 text messages. When you do the math and, assuming that they each did 2,500, that is just under 100 a day. But wait, it gets better… Those 30 days equal 720 hours. Since he is a teenager lets assume an average of 7 hours of sleep a [...]
6 February, 2009 at 0:40 by vonn

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14 Apr 2007

Silence v. Conversation

I was reading a book on creativity last night and came across a list of opposites to use in a brainstorm. What caught my attention was one of the pairs – silence v. conversation. If you have been around here for a while you know how I feel about the need for thinking time. I think [...]
14 April, 2007 at 5:05 by vonn

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5 Apr 2007

Shakespeare and Cigars

During the past few weeks my son has been reading Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” in high school. As a freshman this class is really his first experience with literary analysis. In middle school they focused much more on “what does it mean to you.” Now they are focusing on “What does it mean?” Now as an [...]
5 April, 2007 at 5:15 by vonn

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23 Mar 2007

The Golden Rule

Here is a great post from a great friend Craig Schiller. Here is the link: 1 Golden Rule and a bunch of Lemmings A nice, thoughtful way to enter the weekend!
23 March, 2007 at 5:54 by vonn

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