Tag: family
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Seeds of Joy
I brought my tree down to the shoreThe garland and the silver starTo find my peace and grieve no moreTo heal this place inside my heart On every branch I laid some breadAnd hungry birds filled up the skyThey rang like bells around my headThey sang my spirit back to life One tiny child can…
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Peace
I’m willing to bet that if I asked you to define the word peace, I’d get a variety of answers. In fact, I probably wouldn’t hear the same definition twice. We use the word peace to mean lots of different things, don’t we? If I asked you, “What’s the opposite of war, you’d probably answer…
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My Bucket List
Life goes by so fast and there are things we want to do and places we want to see so we make a list, whether mentally or on a physical list. Maybe we have dreamed about doing something as wild as skydiving, white-water rafting or as simple as flying in a plane for the first…
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The Gift
When we moved from Corpus Christi to Pasadena, Texas in 1962, we left all our family behind. The fourth Christmas in 1964 was like all the others. Chris, Tim and I would ride our bikes down to the south end of Dewberry Lane to watch for that very familiar aqua blue 1958 Chevrolet station wagon.…
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The Day I Took Fight
My mom practically raised six kids on her own. As I have shared before our dad was a Merchant Marine. Dad went around the world seven times in both directions. While he experienced exotic countries and cities mom lived a life that was filled with difficult times. She managed this even when she was sick,…
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A Wish and a Tragedy
In April 1965 the Hickey family’s adventure on Dewberry Lane came to an end. The house at 2103 was for sale and the Hickey’s could not afford to buy it. So, we moved to 1216 Trimm Ave on the other side of the Strawberry and became renters, again. I was so upset that we were…
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Crisco
I blame the movie Da Vinci Code. If I hadn’t seen the car driving backwards through the streets of Paris, France I probably would not have known such a car existed. I wanted a SMART car, or as many have commented “half a car”. In October 2007 when SMART brought the car to Tulsa, Oklahoma…
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A Lesson in Compassion
The Hickeys were considered lower middle class in socioeconomic make up of Pasadena, Texas. We had just enough to not be classified as dirt poor, but we were close. Our mother did her best to care for her 6 children given our father’s salary (Merchant Marine) was not substantial enough to cover all the needs…
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My Gentle Giant
All the losses of childhood friends from Dewberry Lane have been painful, but not as painful of the loss of my gentle giant, Thomas Edward Cayton, Jr. Edward was the oldest of the three Cayton boys . He was born September 11, 1950. So, on Wednesday Edward would have been 75. The other two…
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