Tag: wponthego
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The Now
I was standing on a high school soccer field the other night. A storm front had just rolled past; the air had cooled in its wake. But we never saw a drop of rain. The lights over the field began to glow just as the sky opened to a sunset of oranges, pale blues, and…
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Too-Big Box Springs, The Counting Crows, & Cohabitation
How many brothers does it take to carry a queen-size box spring up a narrow flight of stairs?
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Devotional
My wife is sleeping. It has been a long day for her. For me, too. But this isn’t about me.
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A Partial View of the Mental Business Behind Listening
Just sit there a minute. Allow yourself the chance to listen to the sounds of this other person’s words. You can avoid making eye contact with this person while you listen. It’s okay to do this every now and then.
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I’ve been fortunate enough to have had several short humor pieces accepted by the editor of FunnyinFiveHundred.com, and the following links to my most recent, “What We Must, on Occasion, Do for Love.” It’s a story that pokes fun at the trouble guys have when it comes to shopping for clothes — and how they’re…
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Doubling
I know: not a true double. But think about it a minute: how rarely do we ever really see exact repetitions?
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Color
These daffodils popped up in the far corner of a fenced-in yard a few blocks south of New Philadelphia High School.
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Nature; Leading Lines
You can return to places you’ve been before, sometimes the very next day, and encounter an entirely different scene, another world.
Patrick Faller 