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Conversations with Myself: Powerful parallels
The older I get the more I think all things look alike. This sometimes applies to people. I remember standing on “The Spanish Steps” in Rome and seeing Bub Collard in the crowd. Once, while watching Bo, Brock, and Blair play Upward Basketball, I was sure the gentleman sitting directly across the floor was the waiter who spilled soup in my lap at a restaurant in Prague. A few years back, in Trafalgar Square I asked a guy to take a picture of Cindy and me. I knew he was Barry Corbin of Lubbock. (I was wrong---the guy was from Lufkin)
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Thinkable: Two very different perspectives
I would be very hard pressed to find a bigger contrast than our human views compared to God’s perspective. Many know that Isaiah 55 says clearly that God’s thoughts and ways are so much different from man’s as the heavens are higher than the earth. Sometimes we get so self-centered and self-absorbed that we tend to think we are the center of the universe.
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Laura on Life: A lesson in buoyancy
Some kids simply have to learn the hard way. They are not wired to accept information from their parental units.
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Conversations with Myself: Wisdom
Have you ever known anyone that was really smart? We all have, I’m sure. At least we’ve know those whom we perceive to be smarter than we are. I hope you have anyway. If you’re the smartest person you’ve ever known, don’t look now, but you’re in trouble.
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Thinkable: Avoiding the thieves
What do Joni Eareckson Tada (paraplegic) and astrophysicist Stephen William Hawking, (who has a disease like ALS- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) have in common? Answer: she paints with a brush between her teeth and he operates his computer with a stylus held between his teeth.
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Conversations with Myself: We pointed them north
In 1871, twenty-five-year-old Mark Withers left Lockhart, Texas with a herd of 3,000 Longhorns. Mark had trailed his first herd at the age of thirteen, driven cattle to the Confederate commissary in New Orleans during the war and was now a seasoned veteran.
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Laura on Life: Sleepless in the Bahamas
Wandering around a foreign country with my mom and my daughter was an eye-opening experience. My mother, being the oldest, certainly should have been the wisest. All I can say is that if she ever travels abroad on her own, I will have to attach a homing device to her bra.
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Handicap parking in Bonham
I have noticed that over the years the wheelchair ramp area in front of Whitlock’s Pawn and Los Amigos has been used by many as a regular parking space.
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Thinkable: Dot-to-dot
Most of us have experienced an activity which was consummated with the appearance of a picture or a solution not previously visible. For example, as a kid, we laboriously traced “dot-to-dot” until that mysterious picture emerged. Or later we even more diligently filled in a cross-word puzzle until the overlapping clues fell into place, and we completed the puzzle. And finally there is the inverse example, a You Tube video ad for Diet Pepsi, “Now you see it, Now you don’t.”
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Conversations with Myself: Your response is (not always) appreciated
Writing for public view is an interesting process.
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Laura on Life: Cruising
If you want to learn about another person’s personal habits, the best way to do it without asking is to go on a 5-day cruise with them. There is nowhere to hide.
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Thinkable: Effective teaching, communication, and revelation
Since children have different styles of learning, sensitive, efffective teachers will use a variety of teaching methods to help their students learn, as they observe their styles.
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