Author: Garnetjewel
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Lessons Learned
Why is it that it’s sometimes so difficult to be happy and energized as much as I want to be? Why do we do things for ourselves or for others and feel like it’s a burden? I took a job in a different field out of my wheel-house thinking it would be stable. Yet I…
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The Colonial Fight Then… and Today
Artemus Ward, George Washington, Joseph Reed, Nathanael Greene and Henry Knox: these are a very short list of the countless names imprinted on our American story. Do you know each name and what each one of them gave and did for us to have our Freedoms today. Last night I was blown away by the…
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Legendary Commanders of 1776
What is the primary necessity for the Commander of a newly forming entity, daring to become an Army? Experience as a soldier? Almost more importantly, when the bullets are flying, how will he react? Have you ever heard of General Artemus Ward? Unfortunately, this Harvard grad and battle-tried soldier has slipped through the cracks of…
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We are A Special Miracle
American History, what does this phrase make you think or feel? Do these words bubble up, old, boredom, not necessary for today? If that is what you think do you know your own history? Do you realize our very existence as Americans is nothing short of absolutely Miraculous? For starters the men who were envisioning…
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Writing Prompt
Performing no matter how many times still makes me nervous. Although, I have learned the butterfly in my stomach also helps me to hopefully not make mistakes. Sometimes I have had to roll with the punches, my last performance I was singing and then playing a verse with my clarinet last Thanksgiving. I have not…
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A Bible Story Come To Life
How do you know when you have found the right Special Someone? My Mr. Right, has always, in my mind, been someone who could have some of the special traits that characterize my Dad and both of my Grandpa’s. No your eyes are not deceiving you. This copy of this picture from a blown up…
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Be the Salt
Not everything around us is complete doom and gloom. The new 118th Congress has made accountability very refreshing. Besides the 20 Republican Congressmen and women made their indelible mark of the year revelations have been consistent. The investigations have been wonderfully unveiling of issues that have literally been thrown to the bottom of the list…
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Writing Prompt
Well there is more than one answer to this. The answer that comes to my mind first is taking a nice long bath. Sometimes a nice steaming tub with Epson salt or bubbles and a good book to read calms me down. Me time or whatever it’s called also helps me to refocus, reading in…
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Sunday Night Thoughts
I think the coolness of the morning seeped into my bones. I had every intention of being at church all day today. I even wore a dress I hadn’t worn for quite a while feeling good about it. So what went wrong? By the way I still feel weird about selfies. I get very self-conscious…
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Writing Prompt
Well social media is a bit of love, dislike, family, friends, obsession, information and the ability to get messages out really quickly. I use it as little as possible for when it’s most useful to do so. Depending on which social media apps, I do gain useful conservative information from most of my accounts. To…
Jewells of Thought 