Hope from the Hills
Abigail’s friend
May 13 2008It was April 23, 2004, in Auckland, New Zealand, but memory makes it seem like here and now:
Abigail O’Flynn is five years old. Tonight, I heard little feet on the stairs pattering down to my guest quarters in the lower part of the O’ Flynn house. She was obviously insistent that I would visit, so I kicked the door open, pulled out my note book and begin to listen.
Hogs & Demons?
May 09 2008For three years, my wife Carolyn has been locked in a civil war with wild pigs—a scourge in our part of Texas. These hogs multiply like rabbits and they are enormously destructive. Some mornings our lawn looks as if it had been roto-tilled, leaving flowers and shrubs uprooted and mud-stomped. These monster-pigs even challenge cars. One stepped into the path of my speeding Toyota 4-Runner one dark night, re-engineering the vehicle to the tune of $2300.
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April 24 2008This time of year Lexington, Kentucky spreads a visual welcome banquet. Miles of blossoming trees blush colorfully along road-sides that wind among green paddocks. Beyond miles of rail fence, graceful, ‘high-dollar’ horses nibble on ‘blue-grass’ salads, accompanied by their wobbly-legged foals. A more picturesque county one could scarcely imagine.
However, it was the shepherds, not the scenery, that captured my vision last week-end in Lexington. Shepherds you say?
The Pope in HI DEF
April 23 2008 My friend Darrell Gilbertson just E-mailed this reflection to our circle of ‘comrades at arms’:
Boy howdy! This morning I am watching the Pope Benedict XVI at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on television in high definition, described below:
“A common native resolution used in HD Ready LCD TV panels is 1366 x 768[11] pixels instead of the ATSC Standard 1280 x 720 pixels.”
DEADLINES
April 18 2008This morning, long before daylight, I woke up obsessing on deadlines! Four major events are roaring down on me – all with ridiculous demands – and ruthless - deadlines. Deadline!
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