Windmills have served this arid, high desert region well (pun intended), bringing cool, clear, life-giving water to an often parched surface for people, crops, and […]
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Back from Scotland: April/May 201906/01/2017-6:18 am At Angela’s in Deer Park, (IL) sitting in the back garden by the pool, enjoying the sound of an […]
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In the early seventies, I found myself at Remote Site H-2 in Iceland. I’m told our mountain was 17 miles from the Arctic Circle. Travel […]
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I woke up and as I had my morning coffee, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter […]
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After his Dad’s recent narrow escape of a sniper’s bullet, Donald Trump Jr., in several interviews said, “I’m not an overly spiritual guy but,” and […]
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The Battle of the Bulge, for five weeks in the winter of 1944-1945, was a surprise for some, at least initially. It was brutal. It […]
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Michael SpragueCapitol Commission ChaplainMandeville, LA Chariots of Fire won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1982. It depicted the true story of Eric Liddell winning […]
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As I watched a youth rodeo recently at the Chisolm Trail Saddle Club rodeo grounds near Clearwater Kansas, it occurred to me that corporate headhunters […]
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As I sat in the examination chair at Southwest Medical Center, there to get a skin cancer removed (cut) from my elbow, the Doctor came […]
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History tells us of world-changing leaders who have been shot, or shot at and missed, surviving to carry on in the cause of freedom, changing […]
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