Adventures are Unscripted Two years ago, I was visiting my son in Taiwan when a series of events started to unfold. Being the person that I am, I tried to plan the trip out so that I could get the most out of it. Almost everything that I planned fell apart. We had to walk from the airport to the hotel, only to find out that the hotel reservation got lost, so we ventured out into the night again to... Read more
Community Outside Religion I have a place I like to gather. It doesn’t serve food or even coffee. It is just a place to gather for people that I have met along the way. Last count, there were 2, 294 people that have visited or stopped by my little gathering place. I’ve had this place for well over a decade. There are times when I just want to stop going there and other times there is no place I would... Read more
We arrrived at the location for the rally a little early. Leawood is a suburb of Kansas City, far from the inner city or any apparent danger. No one was there and we worried that we had the wrong place, but people started to arrived gradually. Most of the protestors were white, but we still felt out of place since we didn’t have any signs or anything to tell what we were rooting for. This was a smaller rally of... Read more
I used to wrestle when I was in Junior High. The organized kind where you go to meets and sit all day to participate in bracketed competition between kids of your weight bracket. I loved the intensity of that three minutes. The first time I wrestled, I thought I was going to pass out from exhaustion. I made it through the whole match but lost miserably. I got better over the next two years, won some matches and eventually quit... Read more
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