Turning toward home

7/18/2025 We come from pioneer stock who turned their faces westward and set out to find homes and build new lives. For some reason that I don’t know, they stopped in what would eventually become Nacogdoches County, Texas. I wonder what they were looking for. What made them go when so many stayed? There were very very few people around then. What made them want to blend with the piney woods among the Nacogdoche Caddoan…
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Resolving the tension

7/17/2025 Ok, the tension is working itself out as I type. And I know that it will continue to work itself out over time again and again. I didn’t realize there was tension until a few days ago when Cru25 began. But now I realize that it has been there for several years. It probably started when we began the process of looking for a Base Camp for our family in 2019. It was time…
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Quiet places

7/16/2025 This marks the fifth day in downtown Milwaukee. Counting today, we have three more. The connections have been good and so has the training. Very helpful, encouraging, and enjoyable. But the constant city noise is beginning to wear me down. There is this constant hum of car and trucks and compressors and exhaust and it is exhausting. People everywhere. Buildings as far as the I can see, which is often only a couple hundred…
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