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From the Editor
I Really Do Get It A little less than a year ago, I was hopeful and looking forward to this year’s election; today I am terrified and so wishing I had been able to inspire other’s to approach this election with, at the very least, a clearer head. Soon the results of Super Tuesday will…
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Poet’s Corner
A Lasting Love I am always quite enthralled when I see those couples, sitting on the beach or walking hand in hand with weathered faces, grayed hair, and perhaps a beat skipped, in their walk, who nevertheless seem enthralled in each other’s company. I stare intently, while trying to be discrete, when a chair is…
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From the Editor
Forgiveness I received a private message, on social media which said: “Don’t you think?” with a link to a meme proclaiming: “Lord, may we be a people who forgive one another!” and it quoted a verse in Ephesians. I clicked on the link, and went back to the note, and wrote: “Yes, of course.” Later,…
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Connected
Is Energy a Profitable Market? One of the many questions plaguing the Energy and Utilities Industry is the development of bi-directional energy; the notion that if you and I, as consumers, have, for example, solar panels in our home, which produce more energy than we use, under what conditions do we sell it back to…
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From the Editor
Missing Youth (Me, living in Maywood California, when I attended Nimitz Jr. High, with Curly, our dog) Today, I find myself sitting at a desk, in a hotel room, on the sixth floor looking down at a snow covered park, surrounded by wide boulevards and buildings that are over a hundred years old. I spent…
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From the Editor
Free At Last “This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are my people, and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’” ~ Zechariah 13:9 ~ I found myself sitting in a hotel coffee…
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Poet’s Corner
May I wish you a Happy New Year? We may not be able any longer, to wish the total stranger a Merry Christmas; and well be confused about the appropriate greeting which accompanies Hanukkah, or know if Kwanza is still being celebrated, and if so by whom; but whether devout or devoid of any faith…
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Connected
Cybersecurity Checkup© A Year in Review As 2016 begins, we will face many wanted and unfortunately unwanted changes; however, something which will not be changing in any of our lives is our interaction and dependency on technology. Whether we want to be Connected or not, we are; it is vital that technology not happen to…
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Public Square
Billy Graham Library Located at 4330 Westmont Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina, the Billy Graham Library far exceeded all of my expectations, and artfully managed to honor its namesake, while giving God all glory. The Library has the feel of a Presidential Library and Museum, and perhaps rightfully so, given the life of Reverend…
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Remembering Nine Eleven Public Square
New York City Nine-Eleven Memorial and Museum Last autumn, we saw the New York City 9-11 Memorial and toured the Museum; the last of the three major memorials, which commemorate the attack on the United States, of September 11, 2001. Over the years, since the attack, we have made repeated pilgrimages to the…
