Category Archives: remembrance

A story in six words

Jasmine Star’s hosting a contest — following Hemingway’s lead with writing a story in six words. Well, here’s my entry + the image that inspired it. Arrived. Humbled. Inspired. Captured. Forever changed. I’m in Fredericksburg this weekend sightseeing, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells of Weihnachten (Christmas Festival) as well as the activities surrounding...

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Mid Week Loves

This week’s edition is charity-themed … I thought about saving it for next week since charity fits in well with Thanksgiving, but decided to share the links a bit early so everyone can start putting them to use earlier Personally, the charities I regularly support include … The Humane Society of the United States Paralyzed...

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One Hundred

No — this isn’t the 100th entry, hit that awhile back … It occurred to me early this morning when I was writing the date down on a folder at work that, had my grandfather still been living, he would be 100 years old today. So — in lieu of this week’s Mid Week Loves,...

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Always Remember, Never Forget …

  I created this image just after September 11, 2001 and each year I post it in memory of everyone who lost their life in the attacks on the WTC towers, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania, along with the rescuers that gave their lives as well.

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and God cried…

There’s many kinds of heartbreak. And while I haven’t suffered them all, I’ve twice suffered the kind that no matter what I do, I can’t take away the pain or stop the suffering. Once I couldn’t save them from enduring the battle they didn’t deserve. Six years ago in June, I lost my beloved Wilbur…...

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