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excuse me…waiter?
The English language is a fascinating one. Pieced together from so many sources, its patterns of grammar, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary are quite interesting. OK, maybe not to everyone, but I’m a language nerd, so roll with me here. Maybe I can get any doubters on board with an example. Ever wondered why the word…
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the clay
We are told that we have been molded like clay into the image of our creator. In Genesis 2:7, God formed man from the dust of the ground. This conjures images of a great potter, swiping a handful of dirt from the earth and shaping it into his likeness, a visual echoed in Job 10:9…
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table flippin’
My dog, Timber, is a 150-pound Anatolian Shepherd Dog who has turned out to be quite destructive. He doesn’t mean to be, but between his gigantic body and his whip of a tail, he alone creates most of the messes in my house. So very many times I have panic-rushed to catch a glass or…
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the plans
Sometimes I think I could have planned it better. My life. I could have prevented certain things from happening to me as a child and hurting me for years to come. I could have removed certain people from my life or added in more people to fill the gaps. I could have opened different doors,…
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bear fight
Several times in my life I have interviewed for a job for which I believed I was ill-qualified. Each time I spent hours revising my resume, committing the organization’s core values to memory, and practicing mock interviews in my head ad nauseam while driving, showering, doing chores, etc. Still, even with all this preparation, I…
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the sword
I’ve never held an actual sword. The closest thing I’ve wielded would be a machete. I used it for nothing cool, just to clear some brush for my garden. I may have daydreamed of my own heroism as I single-handedly faced the gnarled skeletons of the previous summer’s giant weeds and micro-trees. It wasn’t until…
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