Month: July 2016
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A moment of Silence
The French President declared that today at noon there would be a moment of silence. I was in a massive hardware store when over the intercom I heard, "We will respect the moment of silence …" The entire store stood…
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Chelsea’s Classmates from Junior High
Chelsea took a few days of vacation to come home, and to be her friends Domi and Leah (friends from the sixth grade.) Leah lives and works in Milan, and Domi works and lives in Guyana. We had dinner,…
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Remember Love…
The moment tragedy hits, soon thereafter a piercing reality that life is a balancing act of both frailness and strength, and when tipped life seems it will never be same again. At first, it is painful, seemingly unbearable at…
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France in a day of Mourning
Photo via my childhood friend Laurie SF I wrote about Laurie here…. http://willows95988.typepad.com/tongue_cheek/2012/05/living-in-france-1.html The photo was taken in Nice on the Promenade des Anglais. Also, today my friend's daughter, Natacha you may remember her when she came to visit in…
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Nice ….
We came home, all four of us, we had not all been together since Christmas, the minute we walked in my phone was buzzing, "Are you safe?" Yes we are. I am speechless. My prayers are with those who…