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As you look back, what are the three most incredible changes you have witnessed? Legacy Story Prompt December Week 3 OK ; I’m not as old as some of you but I’ve been around the block a time or two. I’ve worked on copying machines most of my life so I...
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When I was much, much younger, and that was a long, long time ago, because I have always been as old as I am now--life was lived at a different pace. For one thng, we lived in black and white and often the contrast between those colors was muted. I remember...
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Automatic washing machines as upposed to wringer washers. Clothes dryers instead of clotheslines, (although I loved the way the clothes smelled when I took them off the lines) , Pampers, which I never had the pleasure of using, Garbage disposals (now that's a big one), Medicine for anything that ails you, it...
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All science classes in the small-town high school from which I graduated were taught by a poor soul whom, for out of respect for his memory, I will not name. Consider him “Mr. X.” Mr. X became infamous for the total anarchy that reigned in his classroom. This unfortunate man had...
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A Web of Destruction Down inside the soul of every man and woman is good and evil. One characteristic overshadows the other, and usually by a large margin. For some, evil is the primary inhabitant. Good is only occasionally allowed to rear its head. The souls of these are dominated by...
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Forgiveness is such a powerful action. I call it an action, because it takes conscious effort to go through the process of forgiveness. It doesn't just happen by itself, and it is actually an attribute to which we should all aspire. The result of an unforgiving spirit is bitterness. And bitterness...
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In the 1930’s, Central Oklahoma would have made any film director looking for an “On Location” site for a movie depicting the seven plagues of Ancient Egypt drool with desire. Most of Oklahoma, after enduring the destruction of the Dust Bowl, foreclosures on family farms and double-digit unemployment had one...
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I was indeed fortunate to know both my maternal grandparents and my paternal grandmother. My paternal grandfather, Stephen Harry "Dick" Mason, died many years before my birth, so I only know what I have been told and what information I located doing genealogical research in the Prairie County, Arkansas, Courthouse in...
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Really - only ONE ancestor?? Come on - you have to know me better than THAT!! Me who is working on a book about time travel and going back to watch my ancestors and maybe interact with them.... (still working on plot and story line). So I cannot limit it to...
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Forgive? I have much more to be forgiven for than to forgive. The years between 1950 and 1979 are filled with things I did to hurt other people. It wasn’t deliberate or malicious but that doesn’t excuse the fact that I did hurt people, sometimes severely. I either didn’t know or...
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To FORGIVE.... that is tough... Different from forgetting... I have had to learn that to forgive someone of something doesn't mean you have to forget they did it. And that is a HUGE difference as well as a HUGE gap to cross... A tough lesson to learn and actually follow. I...
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The Spirit of Christmas is the Spirit of Christ. As my son, Golden, was reading a story from Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it triggered a memory in my mind that had been long forgotten. On Christmas...
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There are some things we did in our lives that we may wish we had done differently, but there is a good probability that if we got a second chance we would not do them differently. Why? Because the motivation to do what we did the first time is firmly grounded...
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Oh Boy ; Oh Boy ; Oh Boy Week 2 of the December Legacy Story Prompt is a doozey : Describe an egregious act that is still too difficult to forgive or that you have since forgiven. As a Christian I know that I am supposed to forgive those that trespass...
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Topic "Wisdom and Opinions" Our world is changing faster than civilization is able to keep up. These changes are sometimes for good and others not so. Sharing each others' insights can open our eyes to things we may not be aware of. On the flip side we can have that same...
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