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Survival in Tough Times: I learned a great deal from him when he didn’t know I was watching him. Love ya, Bro. Thank you.

It is time to learn what new mountain must be climbed. It looks like there is much hard work tomorrow

Survival in Tough Times: We can find most anything we want right now, and that’s a good thing. A little prudent shopping or gardening might be something to consider. It’s just a thought

Survival in Tough Times: All of this awareness and appreciation of the landscape starts with a reference point and the compass rose. Check it twice a year on the equinoxes or on a clear night. If you’re going most anywhere, pack a good atlas

Survival in Tough Times

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Did you think I’d crumble? Did you think I’d lay down and die? Oh, no, not I. I WILL SURVIVE!

Survival in Tough Times:

When people say I must have had a boring life because I didn’t have the tech toys of today, I am forever grateful that Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates widened my horizons

Survival in Tough Times: My excitement grew steadily. We were snowed in, stranded at the farm, the happiest place of my childhood in my first blizzard.

Survival in Tough Times: Musical Perfection in Movie Themes

Survival in Tough Times: With luck it could be the start of a fine new tradition that will inspire writing, evoke sympathy and understanding, and teach a bit about family history. We could do worse.

Survival in Tough Times: Finest Screen Performances:

Survival in Tough Times: The words of Katherine Lee Bates just shock me now. What a time she knew, when the towers of alabaster were the pillars of a great civilization now fallen on hard times

Survival in Tough Times: So at the hip places that demand conformity with their policies, the message is clearly this: Do it our way and like it, or just don’t come back. In the case of one mega restaurant chain, that has already been arranged.

Survival in Tough Times: In my memory it is always green and there are fuzzy brown acorns scattered on the ground. I go there in my memory quite often, but I’m never tempted go west of Lewisville to peek over the edge of the world.

If you’ve ever set out on the road to someplace different, or if you remember leaving home to find a living or a love, it might just speak to you.

Survival in Tough Times: One thing is for sure. Inside of the next calendar year, we’re going to find out whether all is lost or no

An Intellectual World Just One House Away

The Christmas spirit is about showing God's love for families, neighbors, and their communities. Politicians can't save us. It will be God's people who save democracy and America!

Survival in Tough Times

Survival in Tough Times: Get ahead of them by consulting the barometer and the old weather vane. You don’t have to tell them you looked at the latest maps and radar.

But in the material chase to bring happiness to others and especially to children, we forget the simple pleasures of Christmas, love, laughter, being here and now, songs, and the presence of God in our lives

We’ve just passed Thanksgiving week. We try to remember to be thankful on that day, and with luck, we’ll remember to be thankful every week of the year. So far, so good

For 25 years now, Mike and I have celebrated Thanksgiving by having pie with our morning coffee

Survival in Tough Times: Fuel, Food, Groceries, Tea, Coffee, Store Brands, Name Brands

So as a listener and as a narrator, neither exploiter nor abuser be. It’s a good place for applying the golden rule

This list goes on for several more pages, but listening to an old man rattle on about things they can’t change is probably one of your pet peeves.

One of the Most Important Choices in Life

In this month of Thanksgiving, we can give thanks that there are miners and sailors and steelworkers and factory workers who provide for us without knowing who we are