Our Stories Unleashed

Peace

Here is a peek inside a conversation in my car at school pick up on Thursday afternoon:  ME: Hey, Sawyer, how was your day? Sawyer: It was great. ME: You ok?Sawyer: I am fine, just fine. Maybe. I guess. I don’t know.   The truth is that two hours earlier, Sawyer found out that her choir teacher was offered a full ride scholarship to work on a PhD in conducting at Texas Tech.Sounds great, right? While that is great for the choir teacher, many of the...

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Good Work

I just finished a project. It had been hanging out on my to-do list for at least months, maybe even a year. Based on the time elapsed since I added the project to my list, it evidently had no urgency to it, but it was an important task, nonetheless. Also, it’s one of those behind-the-scenes projects that others won’t see. Few know about it; fewer care. But you know what? It feels good to have it completed. Recently I reviewed the Eisenhower Matrix, a...

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Hide and Seek

One of my favorite games growing up was hide and seek.  I lived in a neighborhood with several other boys my age who became my closest friends.  Most days, we would gather at one of our houses and run through a list of options of things we could do.  This list included the typical options of riding bikes, playing sports, jumping on the trampoline, or playing video games.  When we were younger, however, hide and seek was a popular choice.  There was even a stretch...

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