Eulogy - A Remembrance to Someone Who Died or a Tribute to Someone Who Lives?

 Thanks to modern technology, in the past couple months I've been able to watch three separate funerals on You Tube.  One was a neighbor friend of my mom's, one was a neighbor of ours and today one was of a man who had been a pastor in our neighborhood church.  I probably wouldn't have attended either of these funerals, but was grateful...

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Making the Most of Winter Enjoying My Backyard Birds

 There's one perk to being retired during the dead of winter aside from not having to leave the house and that is the time I have to enjoy my backyard birds.  As if on cue, my backyard menagerie is especially active - and plentiful - during this ridiculously cold and snowy month of February and the antics outside my window provide me with...

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Winter is for the Birds and Enjoying the Northern Cardinals

 In order to see the birds, it is necessary to become part of the silence.-Robert LyndWinter always seems like a good time to rest, to inhale the fresh, crisp air, to slow down and ponder our direction into the new year.  January for me is a time to pause and plan, a time to focus and refresh.  The outside world has been particularly...

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