The morning sun

7/2/2025 It is morning of the third day at Camp Zephyr in Sandia. There are about 700 youth from a bunch of churches. Not many of them are up yet. The camp is mostly quiet. I found a table overlooking Lake Corpus Christi that wasn’t too wet. Was just sitting here and realized that I was facing about east and the sun was about to come up. I love the sun on my face in…
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Volume

6/29/2025 I know, it’s still June, and we have a month and a half before the Fall semester starts, but I have a feeling that the next six weeks will fly by. So I’ve been thinking about it, and have determined that the one word theme to focus on is volume. In order to become good at something, it seems like, in addition to studying and learning how to do the something, one needs to…
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Culture

6/28/2025 It seems that we are being bombarded with two primary uses of culture. The first is the separate cultures of different people in America. The second is a way to categorize waves of connected, specific ideas. In the first use, and in my context, it's the ideas of Majority Culture and Hispanic/Latino Culture. And I know that this is real. At least, it's certainly real to some degree. But generally, I see this used…
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