Tag Archives: Disappointment

Redirections

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Mark Twain was on top of the world.  In 1861 he officially became a riverboat captain on the Mississippi.  Piloting a steamboat combined adventure, danger, and the sheer romance of chugging up and down the longest river in North America. It was lucrative, too. Historians estimate that riverboat captains were the third… Read more »

Reordering Our Loves

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Most high school kids fantasize about winning some version of the Big Game. With their peers cheering from the sidelines, they dream of making the decisive penalty kick, hitting the game-winning three-pointer, or kicking a field goal as time expires. My good friends Kevin Kelso, Mike Goler, John Shaw and I couldn’t do any of those things.  But we knew… Read more »