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"It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close."
~ Jesse Owens
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Buckeye
Everyone has been bringing treats to the middle school youth group lately, but we have one volunteer with Celiac Disease. I decided to make a gluten free treat for her to bring this week. She didn't share.
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
~ Winston Churchill
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: First
I got my first Christmas card today. Hopefully it won't be the last!
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
~ John Dryden
PLACE: Home Sweet Home
SUBJECT: Tread
I'm pretty sure if I were to look back through my photos I'd see that I have taken more photos of these stairs than I have anything else ... which is why I'm not looking back!
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Chaos is a friend of mine.
~ Bob Dylan
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Chaos
The first snow of the season always brings a certain level of chaos.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Crystal
Sometimes the frost is solid and blocks your sight,
and sometimes it begs you to look a little closer.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.
~ Kyan Douglas
PLACE: Podunk Illinois
SUBJECT: Old-Fashioned
We don't do fancy froo-froo displays here, we do displays with heart!
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“An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.”
~ Unknown
PLACE: Church
SUBJECT: Lights
They decorated the youth center for Christmas. Pretty lights!
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