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Ejected
I can finally tell the tale. They say dead men tell no tales and that day I was alive and dead at the same time; being alive won. I was ejected from a high-speed automobile accident with hardly a scratch. The event has haunted me most of my life. This…
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Kansas City Commodities Report
The paths we follow in life often spring from a series of personal decisions. Some are so small that they go unnoticed while the bigger ones are plain to see. The paths we take become set while time and perspective can change how we view the importance of those decisions.…
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Drogonfly
The beauty and magic of a rainbow fascinates many people. They look for them, going out of their way to point one out. To some, rainbows promise that the worst is over. To others, the vibrant colors are enchanting. There is even the allure of gold at their end. I…
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When Wheat Was Taller
Once, a very old man, who could have been mistaken for a more animated sibling to an ancient Egyptian mummy, said that the last time he had seen me I was, “knee high to a grasshopper”. While many things seem much larger as a child, like the towering cliff of…
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SYNTAX ERROR for Christmas
There isn’t a word in the English language that accurately matched my father’s feelings about computers, but let’s settle on the word “detest”. You can use the word “hate”, but “detest” alone gave him the ability to put emphasis on the “st”, like a snake hissing. One Christmas, Dad embraced…
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Facing the Reaper
Most of the time our days focus on what is immediately in front of us, with the trivial and frustrating as its highlights. A coffee spill as we stop short driving, the silly joke with somebody, a radio jingle that won’t leave out head. But sometimes at night or especially…
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Harvest Moon
A lot of the rural life does not see much excitement, especially where I grew up in the “middle of nowhere” USA. It was a big deal when a local town began offering “free land” to businesses willing to relocate and invigorate life with new jobs; that one made it…
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The Choice
People’s lives, despite their choices, usually follow a general direction, a slightly wavy but for all intents straight line. What we ate for lunch yesterday is one of those minor and inconsequential choices that is often hard to remember the next day. A string of poor financial decisions over time…
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There Will Come Dark Rains
Most of the time, thunderstorms are just a nuisance. They postpone the feasts for ants at picnics, make convertible owners scramble to put up the top on their rides, and overall cause us to resemble droopier versions of ourselves. There is always a chance you could be caught in a…
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Holy, Holy, Holy!
My mother maintained a reverently religious household and is convinced to this day that I teeter on the razor’s edge of falling from grace. While I admit that I do not actively attend church, if I did, Mom is certain that world balance would be restored in myself, and potentially…
North of Nowhere - Bridging Different Worlds 