Archives in Category: Things to Ponder

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Beauty

Posted on November 8, 2004

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is as beauty does. Beauty is only skin-deep. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. There are so many clichйs about beauty that the concept is almost a clichй in

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Election Eve

Posted on November 1, 2004

Tonight is Election Eve, where everyone in our country will go to sleep under the current administration and wake up tomorrow ready to vote. Even the undecideds must climb down from the fence. Tomorrow night’s sleep may not be as

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Shipshewana

Posted on October 31, 2004

Yesterday we ran away to Shipshewana for one last look at trees in fall bloom and fields where horses roam. It isn’t even two hours away by road, but it is a lifetime away in culture.

Shipshewana, Indiana, is the

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Life, According to Sweatshirts

Posted on October 27, 2004

I once had an all-black sweatshirt that had the following saying scripted in white across its front: “What if the hokey-pokey really is what it’s all about?”

Whenever I wore that sweatshirt in public, it elicited stares first and then reactions

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Supreme Decision

Posted on October 26, 2004

The press announced yesterday that Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Renquist has cancer, the third of nine justices to meet this fate in recent years. The news seemed good, in that his cancer was caught in time and

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Challenging Times

Posted on October 25, 2004

You’re printing a ten-page document and your printer runs out of ink on page six. You have no spare cartridge. You visit a scenic park for the day and record the outing with your camera. Only you forget to remove

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Apathy

Posted on October 20, 2004

I cannot bring myself to say that apathy is a good thing, but I have come to understand it. And I think sometimes that good people, decent people, appear apathetic because they are not up to the fight. Or the

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No Smiling

Posted on September 17, 2004

I went to my local Walgreen’s yesterday to obtain the two photos required by our government to have one’s passport renewed. Sure enough, in the photo department a woman waited with a Polaroid camera and a pull-down screen that provided

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A Project

Posted on September 15, 2004

Nothing is simple, even when you hire a professional. Take the case of the new awnings we recently ordered for the front of our house. I’d chosen a color, which I thought would go well with the brick, the landscaping,

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Weeding

Posted on September 9, 2004

My current form of exercise is an hour of weeding every day. While this may not sound strenuous, I’ve already lost a pound this past week; and my body feels more stretched and limber than before. My yard looks better

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