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Art and prayer

My friend Darrell gave me a book titled “The Color of Jazz: Album Cover Photographs by Pete Turner.â€? Turner is a professional photographer whose photos were used on album covers for jazz musicians during the 1950s and 1960s and 1970s. It’s one of those big coffee table books, but since I don’t know anyone who […]

Soul satisfying

Last weekend, Cyndi and Katie and I drove up to Raton, New Mexico, for a family wedding: Cyndi’s cousin’s daughter got married. It was a fun time, and very few from Cyndi’s family were missing. And I should add, whenever Cyndi’s family gets together, the room will be full of the tallest long-legged people you’ll […]

Even in elementary school,

I read books all the time. We would go to the library once a week as a class and I always checked out a book. I remember one year, my teacher – I don’t remember which grade (I think 4th or 5th) or which teacher (Morris or Henry), but I can picture the layout of […]

Leaning gracefully

I walked into the small banquet room to see a mission presentation, and sat at one of the large round tables in a back corner where I could see the screen and the speaker. As it turned out, I sat next to a distinguished gentleman who looked familiar to me but in that moment I […]

Wind beneath my wings?

When I finally made it back home, I turned on the Weather Channel to confirm how bad it was outside. The TV said it was 47 F, which ordinarily would’ve been wonderful for 8:00 AM Saturday morning in February, except that this morning the wind was blowing 20-40 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. […]

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