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SCARS OF GOLD
Our home is like a beautiful “storage room”, we have a lot of stuff. But I can point to each item of mine and tell you the story behind it, and...
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SALTY
One of the best things about bacon (and my other addictions: popcorn, Fritos, and crackers) is salt. You can keep your sugar…even chocolate does not have the same appeal as...
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August 19, 2025
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A LITTLE GIRL WITH WINGS
Every once in a while, when you travel, you experience moments like this (actually they happen more often these days). We were in the airport getting ready to board our...
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August 12, 2025
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IF I KNEW THEN…
Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s something else, but lately I’ve been obsessively fantasizing, and even had dreams about, going back and starting over…beginning with my Freshman Year in High...
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August 05, 2025
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CONSIDER THE LILIES by Rev. Ken Rickett
Luke 12:27 “Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of...
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July 29, 2025
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SUNDAY MORNING RITUAL
Every Sunday morning, I have a tradition or ritual, if you will, when I arrive at the Church Building. This “ritual” started as things that needed to be done by...
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July 22, 2025
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CATASTROPHE
Sometimes, often, the news is devastating, shocking and altogether too familiar. We, who have lived more than a few years, are used to the fact that disasters, natural or otherwise,...
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July 15, 2025
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STILL COUNTING by Rev. Ken Rickett
Upon moving to Anderson in July 2017, I set out two peach trees, each of them only a foot high. Now they are about 12-15 feet high and have been...
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July 09, 2025
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TEACHERS & STUDENTS
She was as colorful a person as you would like to meet; my first piano teacher, Mrs. Beardsley. With a smoker’s cough, low voice, and a pink living room (I especially...
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June 30, 2025
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MICHAEL
Each June (PRIDE month) I think about my friend, Michael. Michael was a conductor, chorus master, lecturer, author, musicologist, accompanist, and my vocal coach when I performed opera. He was...
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