Author: Garnetjewel
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May 30, 1945
Memorial Day!! What Does It Mean To You This Year? How Will You Celebrate It This Weekend? Grandpa Leo, once the war was declared over got a hero’s welcome. The local paper ran an article about him coming home. They gave him a spot on the front page for the occasion also doubling as a…
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Writing Prompt
I will assume this is about talking to someone who is alive! Growing up really seems to change a person’s demeanor. I would never have spilled as many personal elements of my life as I have done over the last few years. Bryan, is my best friend, encouragement, he makes me smile, challenges me and…
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A Week of Refreshing Work
This week has been a bit physically exhausting. An idea from the past couple of weeks has come to being in different phases. This has actually been pretty exciting as well to be using this space as working on it as well. When my mom and I began to move things around and clean an…
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Sentimental Melodies
When my family first walked up the steps at Fellowship Baptist Church, in I think, 1998 Dean Hartman was the Preacher. One of the many women in the congregation that befriended us instantly was Carolyn Clark. She and Grandma Rosie became best buds although we can say that of quite a few of those ladies.…
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Writing Prompts
This idea has been troublesome for me. God even placed a uniquely essential story of how our earthly things will not matter in death or in heaven. However, I do materials that mean a lot to me. Right before Papaw Freddy died he came down with this cross necklace, dad got the same envelope so…
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80’s Music
Some of the most intriguing thoughts go through my mind in the car. I don’t know what it is? Perhaps the sense of just driving around or in this case being in the ‘shot gun’ seat heading on the road to my grandma’s house. Driving to the house on our squiggly road seems more and…
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Dialysis
My Uncle’s course was set 5 years before he died. The evidence has shown that most people, but not all only make it a few years. Dialysis takes a lot of a person’s already vulnerable body. As part of a patient’s family, because we are going through the process a bit differently but nevertheless we…
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Writing Prompt
The type of collection is the question. I have a library and my two main topics music and history and both of these topics are too broadly named. There are books, sheet music, hymnals, cantata’s and my clarinet music on top of my piano and vocal music. Then there are biographies, college books, and leaflets.…
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Musically Propelled
Today is a day for remembering. Family is so important we need to remember the holes in our lives. The people who are noticeably gone, but not forever gone from our memories. The good that these people were for us needs to be remembered. It is a therapeutic and healing mechanism. When I was working…
Jewells of Thought 