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Tag Archives: friendship
Friend
“Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear… But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.” — Martial To the best … Continue reading
Posted in Around the House
Tagged birthday, friends, friendship, happy birthday, home, love, spouse, wedding, wife
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The River Keeps Flowing
(Reposting this story from last summer, August 24th. One of my favorites.) “You cannot step into the same river twice.” — Heraclitus, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives Many years ago a river flowed slowly. It wasn’t a river that anyone cared about. … Continue reading
Posted in Favorites
Tagged boys, fishing, friendship, gravel roads, memories, rivers, summer
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The Dawn Always Comes
“Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” — Robert Brault Dawn always comes. In different ways it comes, but it follows a tragedy, a miracle, a loss, a win, a success, or a failure. It’s the … Continue reading
Posted in In the community
Tagged change, dawn, day after, friendship, hope, Making A Difference, positive change, Sandy Creek Elementary, tragedy
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The River Keeps Flowing
“You cannot step into the same river twice.” — Heraclitus, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives Many years ago a river flowed slowly. It wasn’t a river that anyone cared about. It wasn’t a river that carried ships filled with cargo. It wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in While Traveling
Tagged fishing, fishing poles, friendship, gravel dust, gravel roads, memories, rivers
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Influence Beyond A Lifetime
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Adams Influence can extend beyond a lifetime. My friend Rob and I share a special friendship, formed many years ago here in a small midwestern town … Continue reading
Posted in While Traveling
Tagged Dawson, dawson school, friendship, influence, Iowa, Perry, schwinn bicycle, violet hill cemetery
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Life Is Not Always Fair
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” — Dennis Wholey On Saturday, my daughter and I made a couple meals for a friend. … Continue reading
Posted in In the community, Toastmasters
Tagged friends, friendship, giving time, Kindness, life's not fair, sadness, Toastmasters
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Post-Christmas Resolution, Day 247 – Harvesting Experience
Offered up fifty cents for a lady at the Tigard farmer’s market so that she did not have to break a twenty dollar bill … Also, reaped the rewards of friendship and harvested a fun experience. This afternoon, I got … Continue reading
Posted in In the Neighborhood
Tagged basil, dahlias, experience, friendship, Gardening, harvest, http://www.ttsd.k12.or.us/mary-woodward-elementary/about-us/mary-woodward-gardens, pesto
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