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  • Wrestling, Sword-fighting, and Guns!

    My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard; Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass”; “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply, “we’re raising boys!” -Harmon Killebrew “One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God make me the kind of man my daddy is. Later…

  • Songs of Rest-oration

      I was thinking today how fast time goes by. I started listening to a song and my wife Kaylee said, “Do you remember rocking Wyatt to sleep to that song when he was a baby?” I instantly teared up as a rush of both sorrow and joy hit me while I reflected on the mental image…