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Today's Fresh Blogs...| How I Learned to Forgive - Part 7 |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 3:43 am |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Forgive |
| At meetings like this my mom generally made me wear my Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, usually a plaid flannel shirt, corduroys and today, a pair of new black Converse sneakers. A picture of Jesus walking on the water hung over my right shoulder. Did these people expect me to be as perfect as him, I wondered? |
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| 88-Year Old Earns Eagle Scout |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 1:42 pm |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Boy Scout, Eagle Scout, Navy, Walter Hart, World War 2 |
| An 88-year old man finally received the Eagle Scout award that he earned more than 70 years ago.Walter Hart earned 23 of 120 merit badges in 1923. 21 badges are needed to achieve Eagle Scout.However, in between the time he was to receive his reward and completing the requirements, he went off to war....the US Navy. He rediscovered his old Boy |
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| How I Learned to Forgive - Part 6 |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 3:40 am |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Forgive |
| Before I knew it, there were teachers’ and PTA meetings being called to discuss what had happened to JJ, and what my role was in the whole affair. My parents, the principal, the superintendent, and all sorts of other people got interested in the playground happening between JJ and me. It could have been fun to get so much attention but no |
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| How I Learned to Forgive - Part 5 |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 3:37 am |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Forgive |
| Later that same year, Jackie J -- JJ, I called her -- some other kids and I were playing ‘It’ in the parking lot behind the school. “It” is played just like tag. The last person tagged was called ‘It’ and then they had to do the chasing. JJ was pretty, with big teeth and a smile that |
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| 7 Reasons to NOT Be Barry Bond's 756th Home Run Ball |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 9:08 pm |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, 756, 757, 758, 800, Alex Rodriguez, Ball, Barry Bonds, Baseball, Fans, Hank Aaron, Home Run |
| I sometimes wonder what other things I might be doing with my life if I weren't where I am now doing what I am doing now, whatever it might be at the time - serving in the Navy, preaching, teaching, blogging.I do know that I do NOT want to be the 756th Home Run Ball that Barry Bonds will inevitably hit.My reasons - 1. It is going to hurt when |
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| How I Learned to Forgive - Part 4 |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 3:36 am |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Forgive |
| Cleo Junior’s father was a barber on the east side of Cincy. It was Cincy’s bad side was the rumor that went around school. But no one clearly said why. The perpetrator had gone into Cleo Sr.’s barber shop and shot Cleo Sr. for no reason that could be spelled out on the radio. The east side was also where the black people lived, |
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| How I Learned to Forgive - Part 3 |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 3:35 am |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Forgive |
| “It’s 7:25am and here is some news from Cincinnati’s East Side. Cleopus Jenkins, Sr. was shot to death while working in his shop yesterday evening,” the WKRC radio announcer said. My brothers and sisters and a few classmates were in the school van on the way to school. It was my mother’s turn |
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| How I Learned to Forgive - Part 2 |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 3:33 am |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Forgive |
| sometimes flaunted, learned or were taught. When they were lived out, those actions drove wedges between parents and kids who otherwise got along quite well with one another. I learned that could happen firsthand. |
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| How I Learned to Forgive - Part 8 |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 3:07 am |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Forgive |
| My parents asked, “Do you know what’s going on, Billy?” “Nope,” I answered honestly. “They think you hurt JJ on purpose,” Mom said. “They think you hurt her because she is black.” I didn’t understand. |
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| How I Learned to Forgive - Part 15 |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 8:13 pm |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Forgive |
| JJ was to my right and I could almost reach out and touch her if I leaned forward and pretended to drop something. But I knew better than to try. Besides, I had nothing to drop. Voices went high and low, loud and soft, and more words were thrown around that I had to look up later – expulsion, suspension, and law suits. I slid back and forth |
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| How I Learned to Forgive - Part 1 |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 3:31 am |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Forgive |
| F. Kennedy was killed and I learned a new word – assassination. A fourth grader at the time, the full gravity of it all somewhat escaped me. I don’t remember how long it took the news to get from Dallas to the Cincinnati news stations and then to the Concordia Lutheran Elementary School where I attended. I do remember clearly that I |
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| Mozart Increases Math Tunes and Chases Away Gang Members |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 6:47 pm |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Drugs, Math, Mozart, Scores |
| Mozart is working his magi several hundreds of years after his death.The Shanghai local government organized a math camp.Two groups of students were challenged to solve geometry problems. One group had a Mozart sonata playing in the background, the other did not.Guess which teams did the best.The Mozart group saw their scores improve 62% while the |
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| How I Learned to Forgive - Part 9 |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 3:08 am |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Forgive |
| “No, Cleo is one of his best friends. Cleo’s been to our house to spend the night several times,” my mom retorted. “Cleo Jr. used to come to the house even before his father was killed.” I returned to sitting upright. “You all are racist!” This |
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| How I Learned to Forgive - Part 10 |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 3:09 am |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Forgive |
| The teachers, principal, and others in the room watched the verbal tennis match with interest. JJ’s side forehanded an attack and my father lobbed it back. Her grandparents returned that with a vicious backhand and once again my father or mother would be at the net to return the volley instantly. Nobody could win because on one side minds |
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| Man Sentenced to 500 Hours in a Cemetery |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 2:37 pm |
| Tags: Lessons Learned, Captain, Dead, Judge, Military, Sentence, Vows |
| Sometimes judges do things that make sense.Hearing a case about someone suing for $50 million because of lost pants is not one of them.Making me go to court for running a stop sign on my BICYCLE is NOT one of them, either.But, sentencing a man to serve 500 hours of community service tending graves at a military cemeterey becasue he posed as a |
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