Tag: travel
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Sand Meets Sky
“…Indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore…” Gen 22:17 AMP
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And So She Flew….
This blog has been quiet lately, but my nest has not been. My just-turned-23-year-young daughter (one of the twins) landed the kind of job we’ve been praying for since graduation last May. I rejoiced alongside her four weeks ago that God answered our prayers BIG, but was stunned that the…
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The Beginning of Advent
We all know that the higher we go, the smaller everything below appears. On a recent flight, I thought about God’s view of our physical world. Our seemingly big homes look like tiny Legos. Once the plane soars above the clouds, earthly treasures are not visible at all. We are…
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The Long Room in Dublin, Ireland
As part of the Trinity College expedition in Dublin, we walked through the highly impressive Long Room. While I thoroughly enjoyed the first edition books that I told you about at the castle (HERE), this was a vast college and beyond what I could have imagined as a book lover.…
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The Book of Kells🇮🇪
Moving on to Ireland, one of our first stops was to visit The Book of Kells at Trinity College in Dublin. We learned that this book contains the four gospels, created by monks in the 9th century. Historians appear to struggle with where exactly it was created but believe locations…
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🏴Scotland Countryside🏴
All those white dots in the photo? Those were the sheep outside our windows every day and night! Adorable! Sheep filled the Scotland (and Ireland) landscape wherever we were.
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A Wedding. In a Castle. In Scotland🏴.
Well, it was everything you could imagine a fairy tale wedding would include: stunning countryside, a Scottish castle that exceeded our already-high expectations, very moving vows and a bride that her Mama would have been proud of. If you didn’t read the introduction to this destination wedding/vacation with an important…
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2 Ducks. 2 Universities. 2 Weeks.
My daughter graduated from college on Saturday and my son will graduate in two weeks. If you read this blog regularly, you know they are twins and we were jumping with joy a year ago when my daughter’s university finally listed the graduation date and it was different from her…
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The Coming and Going During the College Years
Nearly three months ago, I walked through the brisk November air into the sliding glass doors of the airport, traveled up the escalator and stood outside security, waiting for my youngest to get off the plane. It was two days before Thanksgiving and my hands had not been on my…
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(Wordless) Wednesday – Magazines
Will such print media exist even a decade from now?
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My Empty-Bucket List
Throwback Thursday 5/31/2013 For many years, I’ve conducted an activity with my college students, asking them to create their own version of the famous “Bucket List”. I warn them that the list should not include professional goals necessarily, but rather focus upon the “really neat”, “exciting”, “extraordinary”, places, events, activities,…
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 