Author: Garnetjewel
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Writing Prompt-What do you listen to while you work?
Well this depends on various factors. Most of the time if I am in my writing room I am watching you-tube news videos or some Pandora or my favorite Christian radio station 93.3. Writing can be done sometimes very easily while I am in the living room if it’s not completely crowded. I am very…
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Sunday Evening Thoughts
Days after my ‘Eye Scratch’ event and it almost feels like nothing happened. The key word is almost, when I drove to church today or went to Grandma’s I felt the sun bearing down on me. Unfortunately I have had to make a choice for either my prescription glasses or my sunglasses. When I have…
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What’s your go-to comfort food?-Writing Prompt
When I need comfort food my first thoughts are pizza and breadsticks or pizza and salad. Yet nachos are also my home-made comfort food or anything I make using the core staples of Mexican food whatever meat with cumin and coriander I don’t use that stuff out of boxes anymore. Rice, tortilla shells, chips, refried…
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For Such A Time: American Pride Is Infectious
Americans are some of the most entrepreneurial titans of the world. If you can do something you love you never work a day in your life. As far as the history of motorcycles in my family it is a complicated and yet simple stance. Two stories are always on my mind when I hear or…
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Marty
Time is amazing and ongoing. On a pace that everyone has to catch up to regardless of a person’s circumstances. Marty was my mom’s cousin and two years ago the Lord took him home. Like I said, it doesn’t seem like it has already been 2 years… time has just ticked onward. He was a…
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What’s your favorite game & why?-Writing Prompt
This is an excellent question. The Alsmans and Bishops love games and I played them. Card games Gim Rummy, Old Maid, Uno, Checkers, Chinese Checkers was a favorite to play with Grandpa Freddy. On the Bishop side my favorite game was Chutes and Ladders a board game. Through the years I remember playing as teenagers…
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Summer School: Getting Lost
Monday after my class, instead of heading back north on 57 I would be heading in the opposite direction. My time in Evansville had always been with family; never on my own. Yet once I started college I began visiting with Great-Aunt Margaret, Grandpa Freddy’s sister-in-law, I think this was the beginning of my solo…
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Eyes of Mercy
In the past 24 hours a lot of thoughts have gone through my mind. Isn’t it odd that a certain parable dealing with eyes, and a speck of dust or a log in one’s eye have been on my mind lately? These come from scripture in Matthew 7: 3-5. Christ and His words are so…
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Twenty-Four Hours Later
When I went to bed last night, my eye still looked very angry at me. This morning my eye felt sealed shut. I had to open it up and cautiously wash it open, most of the redness gone, but still puffy. I absolutely declare this was not something I conjured up to make a couple…
Jewells of Thought 