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A decade ago I went to a firearm training course in the desert outside Las Vegas. For three days I walked around with a pistol on my hip, as if it was perfectly natural to do so. We alternated between teaching sessions and target practice. And one of the concepts I remember well is that…
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“With my mother’s death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was all sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.” – CS Lewis Though I…
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My Mom stayed for another week after we took Philip to live with Sam, and we put in a whole new front garden. It was intentionally timed to be a productive distraction for me, and it did give me something new to build and to nurture. But now it was two or three weeks down…
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I walked up to the counter at the vet where I boarded Philip. The place had a good vibe. They had a Timnah Grey named Wilbur who lived in the waiting area, and of course, I had to practice my bird whisperer on him. The staff always seemed happy about what they were doing, and…
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CS Lewis has a famous quote from The Four Loves that begins with “To love at all is to be vulnerable …” He says that if you want to protect yourself, you can’t love anything at all, not even a pet, especially not a parrot. (I may have added the last bit.) It’s not just…
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Beyond the Horizon 