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Take Five
One of the most famous jazz tunes of all time is Take Five, composed by Paul Desmond and made famous by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. Its percussive rhythm and distinctive saxophone melody may be familiar to you. It continues to be…
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Butterfly Wisdom
It was mid-afternoon a couple of months ago when I received an excited call from my good friend who lives down the hill. “The monarch butterfly has broken out of its chrysalis! Can I come up and release it in your…
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A Scrap of Courage
If good fences make good neighbors1 then our little subdivision was the perfect setting for neighborliness to grow. The streets were lined with rows of 70s-era ranch-style houses. The small back yards were bordered by the type of chain-link fences Texans…
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The Hiding Place
There is a very moving book published a few decades ago called The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom.1 It tells the story of a Dutch Christian family during WWII who hid and saved many Jews in their home in Haarlem.…
