Author: Garnetjewel
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Memorializing With Color
Family is precious and our memories will follow us wherever we go. My Grandpa Freddy spent time with his children and grandchildren teaching us about our family. Memorial Day was a special time for our family. Dinner would be eaten some of us would play, others talk and the rest would clean up the kitchen.…
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Writing Prompt
This is a complicated answer for me. I don’t want to be a leader, but I don’t want to be a follower either. This idea makes me think of Moses. Why does it always seem to be that those who are leader worthy don’t want to be in those positions. Yet those who need to…
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What’s In My Head Tonight!
Wow! What a day. Everything was taking shape I had several ideas going through my mind this morning for a series and just random ideas due to some upcoming dates. Then after lunch I looked on you-tube as I do periodically and found dynamite. The title of the video said Janice Dean testifies before Congress…
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Writing Prompt
Finally a fun question to answer. When my brothers and I were younger and in school there used to be FFA groups or one of us selling something for a school project. A lot of times there was fruit. Grapefruit was my favorite food for breakfast if I had an option. Still if I can…
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101 Articles
What is your passion in life? Do you have more than one? Writing was not my passion at all growing up. Obviously, growing up with the father who had the golden voice and with a mother who was the pianist at our church; music was natural. History did not catch on until I was a…
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Writing Prompt
There are a few ways I can answer this question. Firstly, making sure my day starts off with prayer asking God for guidance. Secondly for me, I have been missing out on one of the passions God gave me; music. Performing, practicing with other musicians besides choir hasn’t been happening in my life. Before these…
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Banquets of 2023
For the first time in several years mom and I had 3 Celebrations of Mothers and the women in our lives. Grandma’s Church had been something a little different for their members. She has 5 daughters and each lady has their own church family. She may have at one time gone to her daughters churches…
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Surgery
One never knows how a surgery will affect their abilities until they go through the process. Sometimes a 2nd time still surprises you on what will actually happen. I thought for sure the night before surgery I would feel like typing the next evening. Not with both hands obviously, but my first hand surgery was…
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Writing Prompt
There can be a few different people I could share about. Between Church leaders and friends, in my musical education and work experiences. Yet I always go back to my grandpa’s. I could even add my Great-Grandpa Lester to this mix. Listening to his stories when we visited his house on Sunday afternoons, he would…
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Heirlooms
Is there a song that every time you hear it you think, I could have written that song! Heirlooms is the title of one of those songs that has fit me more than once. I literally have a history with this song. As a teenager, I heard it performed at church by a legend; accompanied…
Jewells of Thought 