• Posts Tagged ‘family’

    Monday

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    I got a text from Kurt last night, asking if I wanted to try the Loop again. We can walk part of it. We’ll have to- I am out of shape. When I got up, we met and enjoyed a slow clod around the Academy, and seeing the sun pop up over the Sandias...

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    Just Supper

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    This afternoon, my brother texted my immediate family with some good news, and my mom replied to him that it called for a fat celebration for he and his wife. She gave him an encouraging word, and then in an immediate followup text to just me and my dad, she said “I’ll fix supper...

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    Shang-Chi

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    Tonight I enjoyed the first movie I’ve watched in a little while since I have tried to dedicate myself a little more to reading and writing since the beginning of the year. Ever since seeing the trailer for the Marvel film “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”, I had anticipated taking the...

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    Just a Walk

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    It’s 8 PM on this Friday night, and I find myself ready to go to sleep, which is often a rarity for me. But for whatever reason, it has felt like a long week this week, and my body seems to be saying it could use a break. I’ve been re-reading simple sentences three...

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    A Warm January 1st

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    The year 2022 here in Albuquerque started off with rain and overcast skies today, which later turned briefly into snow showers in the afternoon. But despite the thermometer registering temps in the twenties as the evening wrapped up, it was a very warm day today for myself and my family, because it was my...

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    Miles

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    At 1:20 on Thursday afternoon, May 13th, I pulled out of my driveway and oriented my truck north on I-25, and started on an 8 day adventure. My trip took me principally to Lincoln, Nebraska, where I could join the rest of my family celebrating my niece Faith’s graduation from high school. Added into...

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    “Follow Me”

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    I have wanted to post this picture for a week, but never felt like I could get the right words for it. I figured I’d just get on with it tonight. When I opened this image to process it a week ago, I had a sweep of pleasure wash over me. I thought the...

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    Dowling Becomes A Dad

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    It’s 10:30 PM, and after eating some of my mom’s delicious fudge, and staring at the criss-cross of water lines zigging over the reverse osmosis water tank sitting under the kitchen sink where it sounds like the run-off of a 3 hour torrent is draining into the metal chamber, leaving me wondering what is...

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    Fluorescence, Family, and Feast Day

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    I wasn’t sure what my day would look like this morning, but it became a rich one. Following breakfast and an enjoyable time at church (sermon point: give to bless loved ones in your life, not out of obligation), I visited the Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery right next to my neighborhood, chiefly to...

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    Concert Night

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    I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing my nephews grow up a little bit at a time in their school activities. When my sister’s eldest was in school, he was in drama for a while, and it was great to see him on stage, growing from a kid to a young adult. In the last few...

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    The Beginning of the End: Milwaukee

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    The beginning of the end of this weekend’s quick trip began at 4 AM Milwaukee time this morning, which I think calculates to 2 AM last week Albuquerque time. Scott and I stayed at a hotel by the airport, so I was in the airport by 4:35, but I still cut it close to...

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    A Quick Trip: Milwaukee

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    My brother had warned me: one of his company’s owners was making two tickets to the Cub-Brewers game today available last Wednesday through a drawing. If he won them by chance, we had a decision to make. And on Wednesday, he called me- he had won the tickets. I looked into airfare prices on...

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    A Santa Fe/Roast Chile Day

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    It was nice this morning to have my folks call and say they were on their way out of town, up to Santa Fe, to take a stroll through the city’s annual Indian Market. “Would you like to go?” I thought about it for about two minutes and said yes. They turned around to...

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    Fellowship of the Grill

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    I was grateful this afternoon when my sister texted. She had come across a good deal on steaks earlier, and wondered if I’d like to join her and her family for dinner. Steaks? Umm, yeah. “Bring your chiles.” The ones that had just come off the plants in my backyard. Yes, ma’am. After work,...

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