You did a good thing explaining the “Utah” problem. I was busy teaching in 2002 and still a TBM. I wish I’d lost my testimony a year earlier and mingled with our Olympic visitors.
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Here's a court I'd like to play on. Taken on a warm day in Laguna Beach on February 20, 2011. https://flic.kr/p/9khvg6
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Apple music's been a staple of mine since I started walking long distances in 2020. It keeps me going. But I think I get where you're coming from, LR.
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I was driving my daughter home to SLC on Christmas day and she started playing "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi (released almost five years ago). She said that she really likes the music but she doesn't understand Spanish so she asked me what it's all about. Wow, there are some really suggestive lyrics so I interpreted a couple of lines and told her to google the rest. It surprised me that
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What an intriguing dream that is (the girl who got a way), Cludgie. I've only been from Rome to the Amalfi Coast, while staying in Naples for a week in 2010. Such a beautiful country with amazing people, a lovely language, and my favorite foods all rolled into one.
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I stayed with a family in Prado Churubusco on a six-week study abroad in Mexico after my mission. We took a lot of side trips: San Miguel de Allende (on the way to DF), Teotihuacan, Cuernavaca, Taxco, and Acapulco. I came home a week early to meet my future in-laws, so I had to forego a trip to Oaxaca. In DF, we had a ton of fun, from el Palacio de Bellas Artes and el Bosque de Chapultepec to
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If Facebook has one redeeming feature, it's been the chance to reconnect with friends and acquaintances from decades past; for me it's been a select group of teenagers we taught in Argentina, who are now in their early sixties, and my old Army buddies from the 1980s. I would love to see the former again, outside of any church context. I had a chance in 2010, while my daughter worked for Delta
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I’m going to remember that (Near Love/Life Experience). In a way, it matches up with my daughter’s Christmas present to me: “There Is Never Anything But The Present & Other Inspiring Words if Wisdom” by Alan Watts.
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On To Something Good by Ashley Monroe “I’m better moving on than going back” Can you relate? :)
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I didn’t really learn any juicy words until becoming a public school teacher in the Southland (Orange, San Diego, and Imperial Counties). At one inservice training, they actually gave the faculty a list of curses in Spanish so teachers would know the lingo. I was like LOL!! My first department chair in Encinitas used to say, ¡Ay, La chingada!, which is my favorite curse phrase in Spanish :)
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never again see another Hill Cumorah Pageant in NY. In fact, and this one is so easy to resolve, I’ll never see another pageant, play, or concert by TSSC por el resto de mi vida.
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I think DW fancied the actor with the dark hair and mustache in the temple film. These days she likes Kody on Sister Wives. Maybe I should grow a stache? Nah, that’s okay…
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El día de diversión sounds a lot more fun than preparación. Wow, they just suck all the fun out of la vida misionera. For my first six months in country, we could listen to whatever music we wanted to play on P-days. Then they went and spoiled it all with a mandate to listen to MoTab (insert green, sick-to-my-stomach emoji). I always wrote home on P-day. Dear Mom wrote me back weekly. Carta
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The thank you above was meant as a reply to you. Yes, I still have some boundary work to do. Excellent observations on goals and NY resolutions. Thank you.
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Great observations! Thank you. Cuz X 65-years-old and still a work in progress…
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In 1975, they had streamlined the experience into 3 days before our lovely 8 weeks at the ele te eme. One of my viejito profes at la U de por qué had to study his castellano on the boat to South America. ¿En barco? Imagínate. Che, Primo X
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Congratulations on your great grandchild. They are such a joy. I keep wondering what it would be like to experience so much technology as they grow up. At two, our oldest great is always getting her picture taken (smart phones) and shared on family chats. She gets to face time her grandma, who lives two states away. She dances to music her mom finds on Tic Toc, y mucho más. De todas maneras,
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When I was teaching, I frequently brought “homework” home to grade. I don’t miss that. As a retirement gig, I worked retail for about 18 months and I thought, “I could just as easily be on my feet in the classroom and making 3 x as much,” but I was actually working a lot longer with lesson prep and grading factored in. Balance for me now is the personal fitness thing and a good measure
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Using your Wii sounds like an excellent strategy to get moving. Other than my “setbacks” I shoot for double the amount of CDC recommended time for aerobic activity. Walking, even through the winter, has been very effective. I still need to pay attention to upper body work and include some weight-bearing exercise though. The sleep thing has been more of a challenge lately. Since my annual
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Amigo de actividades: You could hike with me and we could do landscape photography together. That’s been my serious hobby since leaving TSSC and I am pretty good at it. Amigo de situaciones: We could meet up for an occasional dinner in Ogden or Salt Lake City. I say occasional because I’m watching my calories these days, just not so much when I’m dining out. Primo X
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I used to write a list of New Year’s resolutions and fail. At the end of 2020, I finally wrote a resolution that I’ve kept because it capitalized on what I’d been doing for four months and I had a very strong desire to continue. ***** New Years Resolution for 2021 Written after a cold 4-mile walk on 12/30: I’m dreaming about the Southland on a cold afternoon in December. It was
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You wrote, “I’m all about living.” I like that philosophy. I used to think, if I could live my life over, I’d definitely do more of some things and less of others. I would have liked to become more patient, more introspective, and more intuitive from my twenties onward; life isn’t lived that way, of course. We only have the present.
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I have eaten a lot of Dole salad kits since beginning my weight loss journey in September 2020. I had to do something to get my weight and pre-diabetes under control, so I count calories with MyFitnessPal and I normally walk 20-25 miles per week at a very brisk pace. Anyway, I digress. DW told my about the listeria outbreak so I guess I’ll start prepping my own salads for now; it’s probabl
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I don’t think any LMs were in on our session with the GAs in 1975. How rude! At the end, there was a young missionary who stood up to bear his testimony and he said, I want all of you to feel the power of the Sprit. He extended his hand and waved it slowly in front of him. One of the old geezers immediately stood and corrected him, saying that the Holy Ghost does not communicate in that way.
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Right? I didn’t think you lived in Utah, Dave! Last month, someone passed me going faster than 75 MPH, the speed limit on that section of I-15, and they were looking down at their cell phone. I kid you not. I can’t find the appropriate curse words. Ay, la chin… Cuz X
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It’s true that NDEs seem to conform to one’s personal religious inclinations and expectations, as you say. I’ve read enough over the years to confirm that aspect. I must say that I’m intrigued by those anecdotes in which people describe meeting a deceased relative whom they never met personally in real life. To be sure, I’m not trying to make a case for the validity of NDEs. I’m ju
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