Chocolate and Hope

When the world gives you nothing but crap and pain all in one week, chocolate daisies come to the rescue to make you shoutout in glee when you discover them.  A large patch of these divine daisies were discovered in Seminole, Texas this week. This is March, not April. Our rains have been nonexistent, but…

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The Grace of Applesauce

A Motivational Reflection on Instinct, Grace, and Paying Attention You never really know the moment something small becomes something big. Sometimes, it’s not the dramatic scenes that shift your life—it’s a quiet decision in a grocery store aisle. A few weeks ago, I was at H-E-B catching up on errands. Nothing major. Just another grocery…

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Thankful Moment

What do you see in this image? A car dashboard, raining outside, lots of trees, an undeveloped road. Anything else? This image is the perfect reminder of a moment in my life. A moment when three friends were together on a rainy day in Lexington, Kentucky. We were exploring cemeteries, distilleries, getting lost, eating dinner,…

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