Month: July 2016
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Essential Exercise for the broken
For a person who despises exercise, I sure do spend a lot of time doing it these days. Leg lifts, quad sets, wrist twists and turns, weight lifting, leg squeezes, stretching exercises and lounges. Thirty of each and repeat three times a day. I know I need to do the exercises if I ever expect…
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Sacred fabric shears
Quilters make and share quilts. They share patterns, tips and techniques. Quilters never share their best pair of fabric scissors with anyone reaching to use cloth cutting shears for any purpose other than cutting cloth. Every seamstress knows that using fabric shears to cut anything else could ruin them for cutting fabric. That protectiveness generated…
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Cell phone in court
Cell phones. Can’t live without them, can’t live with them. They keep us in touch far from home or the office. They interrupt conversations and meetings. Even silenced, fingers twitch to take just a peek for messages or to see who might have called. The urge dictates so strongly that pastors admonish folks, “please, turn…
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Socializing in the rehab unit
No one in the rehab dining hall at the hospital considered it rude to ask, “What happened to you? Why are you here?” The sudden, abrupt changes to their bodies that each had endured, screamed to be discussed. The guy with one less leg than the day he retired a couple weeks ago, wanted to…