Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
I was walking east on the north side of the road in the brisk pre-evening pre-dusk late afternoon.
“Hi, Mark!”
He was driving east on the south side of the same road.
He had slowed down to shout out his open window.
I turned to look. He waved. I waved.
Happily. With a big grin.
I hadn’t seen him in way-too-long. Weeks.
My good friend in his old four-door blue-green pick-up. Read it all
If you start feeling like I’m conditioning our friendship on your 100% compliance with my wishes, please let me know.
In fact, let me know if such conditioning reaches even 20%.
I don’t want to be that kind of friend. Read it all
Ruby (she’s my wife!) wanted to make a gift for the bride-to-be.
Oh, she could have bought something much more easily.
And saved herself many hours of work.
(I hope that doesn’t understate how much time she put into this project.) Read it all
Well, Harmony on World, anyway.
Or maybe this should be titled “Headings for World”?
I know that girl! She’s the daughter of one of my babyhood friends and good buddies, Darrell. (We grew up in Mexico together.)
Many WORLD readers nominated compassionate ministries for this year’s Hope Award for Effective Compassion contest. Charity expert Jill Lacey and I researched and assessed the entries and then sent a reporter and a photographer out on the road to see firsthand what groups are doing.
The first fruits of this exploration are on the pages that follow. We chose three finalists—Christ Clinic in Spokane, Youth Horizons in Wichita, and New Horizons in Colorado—and in San Diego late last month announced the champion: New Horizons.
Source: Effective compassion
Wow! Congratulations to New Horizons. God bless them in their service. And Harmony and other nannies also.
“Iced tea I know, but what’s ITF?” you might be asking yourself.
In this case, ITF stands for Iced Tea Forever.
He’s the second tenor in the no-longer-singing-together A Cappella Harmony Quartet.
The purpose of this post is to show him this “staged” photo I took an hour or two ago in our kitchen:
I make the iced tea around here, Tom. And mighty fine iced tea, I dare say — half peppermint, half spearmint. (I really like my Mr. Coffee Iced Tea Maker.)
Somebody shot my good ole friend from way back when. Or maybe he shot himself. Even so, he’s not looking so bad. Really well, in fact.
But a cane?! He’s using a cane? 😯
Seriously, though, SRS, I hope things are looking up for you and your distinguished spouse.
Amen.