I Remember You

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I think of you today, Dad. I miss you, and wish you were still here for a whole host of reasons. I celebrate my birthday today; I also celebrate the first anniversary of your death. There’s got to be some significance in that. Maybe it was just a reaffirmation of the bond we [...]

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Elevate Your Thinking!

I’ve been learning a lot about walking in Kingdom principles this past month or so, and I was really excited to visit Covenant Church this past weekend and find that Bishop Tudor Bismark was a guest speaker and was preaching along the same lines. Oh, he fired me up!
He talked about breaking the barriers of [...]

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POW: Passive Aggression

Just stumbled across this WordPress site and it sure makes the Post of the Week! This post I found especially hilarious. For more good stuff, go to www.passiveaggressivenotes.com.
I’ve written some passive aggressive notes in my time

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Surreal Jobs: Les Misérables

I once worked in a group home for troubled teenage girls for about 3 months. I can’t believe that I lasted that long. There were 3 shifts: 8am-4pm, 4pm-midnight, and midnight-8am. Understandably, training sessions were conducted during the 4pm-midnight shift because it provided maximum interaction with the girls. The organization I worked for ran 3 [...]

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A Tribute to Jangs (Luos)

Don’t Let Them Kill You
What depth and treasure
Lies in my history?
Hidden in the graves
of my bold, fish-eating ancestors.
They killed you!
Where are the dances?
Where are the feasts?
Where is our identity gone?
Children, retrieve your roots.
Don’t let them kill you, too.
                         M2. 1999

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PTS: Montana. Big Sky Country

I was in Billings, Montana last week…the most breathtaking geography I have seen so far in the U.S. Talk about wide open spaces, hills and valleys. As we drove into Billings from the aiport, I was convinced that the Rift Valley had somehow relocated to Billings, Montana. The aiport is at the top of a hill, [...]

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My People, the Luo

In my very first post I indicated that although I am a Luo by birth and heritage, my relationship with things Luo is troubled. This, I understand, was interpreted by some to mean that I hate Luos. Far be it from me to hate Luos, although I decidedly dislike certain Luo traits, like their (our?) arrogance. [...]

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