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by Kevin Burton I list these songs below, and chances are you’ll pick up right away where I am going with them: “Laughing” and “Undun” by the Guess Who, “It’s Too Late” and “I Feel The Earth Move” by Carole King “Who’ll Stop The Rain” and “Travelling Band” by Credence Clearwater Revival, “Something” …
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by Kevin Burton Prose and poetry share a bookshelf without rancor or squabbles. Each has a place, and then there is a place shared. There is an understanding. You know and appreciate them for what they are. Each is comfortable within itself. But they are pleased for the company of the other, …
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by Kevin Burton Husbands, take note. Here’s a lesson in love from the book of Ephesians. Whether your wedding anniversary is coming up, as mine is, or not, the Apostle Paul’s admonition should be on your mind at all times and close to your heart. May your wife warm herself in the …
by Kevin Burton My wife asked me a question, but her question made me ask more questions. This was around Valentine’s Day, and I wanted to write about it right away, but I didn’t get there. Missed my window. But since our anniversary is now only three days away, voila, another window. …
by Kevin Burton Fourteen years ago, give or take six days, I attended a wedding in Wichita. My own. Some of my friends thought I would never get married. So it may have been fitting that the heavens opened up on my wedding night. Jeannette and I exchanged vows at 3 p.m., …
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by Ellie Cobb BBC When Emily Hill, a novelist from Everett, Washington, heard about the recent changes to Canada’s citizenship-by-descent rules, she immediately wondered whether a family connection might make her eligible. “I felt like I’d been struck by lightning,” she says, explaining that her grandmother was born in Montreal. “This possibility was …
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by Andy Corbley Good News Network A wife used her “Find My iPhone” feature to guide search and rescue to the location of her husband who had been buried in an avalanche. Michael Harris was skiing the Big Chief Bowl at Stevens Pass Ski Resort in Washington in late February when the snowpack …
by Kevin Burton Tomorrow Mike Kennedy will call his final regular-season game after 46 years as the voice of Wichita State basketball. This is one of those blog ideas that showed up on the spreadsheet long ago. But it keeps moving down the page. I’m having trouble delivering it. I don’t want …
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by Merriam-Webster Dictionary Romantic: marked by expressions of love or affection; conducive to or suitable for lovemaking; a person of romantic temperament or disposition (noun) We associate this word with sweetness and love, but it emerged from the conquering powers of the Roman Empire. The expansion of ancient Rome created various dialects of Latin called …
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by Kevin Burton The former things. The former things. May they soon become former. There is a song, “The Tabernacle of God,” released in 1979 by Cynthia Clawson. It has always been a favorite of mine, but these days it leaps up and grabs me. My mother is in hospice care now. …
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