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In loving memory
Today’s Catch contains a eulogy to someone we don’t know, but wish we did. She was on the staff of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project in Los Angeles that many of you supported with your gifts on Christmas. … Continue reading
A soldier of another kind falls
Jesus is the answer for the world today Above Him there’s no other, Jesus is the way -Andrae Crouch Out of the ashes of the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s and the Vietnam conflict of the same era came … Continue reading
Last man
It’s hard to leave this subject. Vietnam sticks in the craw of this nation and especially in the psyche of my generation. We still don’t know what to think about it. I don’t, at least. It hasn’t been until this … Continue reading
The only grace there is
One more post on the Vietnam war. Yesterday’s post was about my friend Tim’s rescue of a downed Medevac helicopter crew in Vietnam in 1968. In researching that story I came upon a unique relationship on the battlefield during this … Continue reading
Rescue mission
I was going to save this Catch for a military holiday, but the subject matter has been weighing too much on my heart and mind to wait for Veteran’s Day, next November. Besides, it has more weight on January 6, … Continue reading
New year oneness
Last Friday, in my first Catch of the New Year, I wrote about the magical wedding of a couple that had been separated for over 30 years. They each survived marriages to other spouses, and a long bout with alcoholism, … Continue reading
New Tear’s Day
June woke up on New Year’s Day a very happy woman. She woke up “just married” next to the man she had loved for over thirty years. It’s a wonderful story culminating in a wedding that I was privileged to … Continue reading
Time and eternity
Captain Hook, that nefarious helmsman of the Jolly Roger, has but two fears. He fears a crocodile with a clock inside of it, and the boy who cut off and threw his hand to the selfsame crocodile. But why does … Continue reading
Timely advice from Elastigirl
For such a time as this, I offer some advice from “Elastigirl,” the “super” from one of my favorite animated movies, “The Incredibles.” Bob and Helen Par are retired superheroes trying to have a normal life, raising a family in the … Continue reading
‘The spirits did it all in one night’
Every Christmas, we enjoy two or three versions of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Whether it’s Albert Finney, Patrick Stewart, Bill Murray, Jim Carrey, or the local community theater actor who performs it every year, it doesn’t seem to matter. It’s … Continue reading
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