Five years ago today, on February 23, 2013, the 16th-ranked UNM men’s basketball team, still under Steve Alford, headed to Colorado State’s Moby Arena for a first-place showdown with the #22 Rams. At 21-5, Colorado State had been surging and, just a game before, had enjoyed a six-game winning streak to tie New Mexico...
Read more →Every hero has a weakness. Every icon has a fault. Every human has failings. If you will revere a human, recognize that someone else just won’t. They’ll delight to find a flaw in your favorite and shout it around just to see him fall. It’s always easier to flatten giants by shouting facts about...
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As a child, I was raised as a Southern Baptist. As a young adult, he helped me to choose to remain one. He was above politicking and partisanship, above heavy-handedness and religious histrionics, above sensationalism and celebrity worship, above glad-handing and condescension. He loved God. He loved Christ his Savior. He loved the Gospel....
Read more →Clackety-clackety-clack. The train passes a long feild. A red barn and farmhouse sit angled toward each other at the back end of it. The white of a passing post is bright under the midday light. “Braden”, he says. “Braden.” In front of him, a large toddler lays mounted on top of the the green...
Read more →A friend of mine shared this quote post from Toby Mac with me today. It’s a good one, as Toby tends to circle around important ideas and make you stop and consider what you are doing in the big picture of life by his pithy saying at any given moment. I remember hearing (when...
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After yesterday’s slumfest, today wasn’t much better, although I was at least more productive and had a little more energy today. The aches in my shoulders and knees and hands remained, and I awoke with a slight headache this morning as well. And, I awoke a little too early. But I had had it...
Read more →Today I woke up not feeling to well, so it was a joy to roll over and sleep until about 11AM this morning. Sometimes you just need that. I was feeling achy and my head felt dull. When I got up, I maintained my need to do little today. I made some coffee. I...
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Today, I thoroughly appreciated being able to take a day off from work just for some personal down time, and I enjoyed the time away a great deal. It’s not that I did a whole lot. It’s more that there were some good memorable moments throughout the day. And the day started with a...
Read more →They yell at him because he was coach here, manning the helm in the famous Pit, and he left and became coach there instead, in the pavilion where Wooden built a dynasty, where making just the Sweet Sixteen is pretty much a failure. They yell at him for only winning two-thirds of his schedule,...
Read more →For Valentine’s Day night, I did what comes natural to me. I watched Return of the Jedi, to round out my revisit to the original three films in the franchise. I was about two-thirds of the way through the film when it dawned on me… Darth was a cold mean man because his heart...
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Last night, I recalled I still had a set of neutral density filters in my camera bag I had never used before, and most specifically, and ND-10 filter that I had picked up on sale a month ago at Amazon. I determined I’d go somewhere after work this evening and give the ND-10 filter...
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It was a true Monday today. I came home tonight and sat down to watch a TV program to step out of it all for an hour, but, like my eyes of late, my hearing related to the TV is not so good at times as well. I don’t know if the issue is...
Read more →Today, for whatever reason, I decided it was the most important time ever to get some stuff out of the house, and that stuff I needed to remove meant the clothes I had separated out years ago- not days, or weeks, or even months ago, but yes, years ago- which have sat all this...
Read more →Another Saturday morning at the coffee shop. The breakfast was tasty and energizing, but I return to my standard state here. Another perusal of previously written words on a project. Another rabbit trail off onto Wikipedia and the Boeing website for more B-17 information. Another gathering of random facts. It took 108 planes over...
Read more →I worship You, Lord, God of all beauty, Who has given, by thought and word, the severe majesty of mountains and valleys, sunlight kissing the young woman’s face, the satellite’s view into dark infinity, cool air on my neck on a hot afternoon, layers of violins striding over deep cello, the elevating hug of...
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I thought I’d walk up Central a little this evening after work to see if there was anything worth shooting. I am still trying to understand the exposure triangle and how to use the camera’s settings out of Automatic mode to get a nice picture. The light was golden on the tall buildings north...
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