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Judges: God Only Knows

April 8, 2025

Judges: God Only Knows

“In the work of love there is no part too small to matter and no part so great that it trumps everything else.”

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January 11, 2023

Graceland

I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they've ever done.

January 4, 2023

Urgent!

Waiting to purchase an expensive item until there is a sale makes sense. Waiting to give until there is a special incentive does not.

December 28, 2022

The Dumb Tax

We all pay it either early on – or later. It always comes when we venture into areas about which we know very little and, typically, with people we do not know well.

December 21, 2022

Scrooge Repents

The envelope became the highlight of our Christmas.

December 14, 2022

Twist of Fate

Of course it’s hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.

December 7, 2022

Organizing Genius

Members of Great Groups say they would have done the work for nothing. The reward is the creative process itself.

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