It's been sometime since the deacon has been to many places, I have been on a couple serious missions. The first mission was to return a guy I know to a location that would better suit his medical needs, not a trip I chose to take but he had recently lost his wife and was not doing well. I returned him to his mothers so that he may regroup, a straight forward trip from northern Oregon to central Cali. once I returned to Oregon I continued with a friend that is battling Lymphoma and needing alot of help, he has since [View Full Entry]

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As I sit here going through a bought of depression, which I haven’t gotten but maybe four times in my life, I look hard look toward the future and wonder what can make it right. So I begin by assessing what I have been through Ok small stuff first I tell myself, what is it that makes me a survivor, I have been shot, stabbed, lit on fire, hit by both a car and a train and broke my neck all before I was 25. Yet I still can smile since I am still alive and thrive to keep going. What [View Full Entry]

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Traveling has always given me a sense of adventure, but as we all do I have been resting a bit and taking care of my elderly Mother whom I see is getting near the end of her adventure here and I wondered aloud, mom have you ever been to someplace like St Thomas or any place like that? she replied no. so I felt I owed her one for the times that she backed my play. so I decided under my breath that I would do my best to make that happen, so here I am today to pump up my [View Full Entry]

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My curiosity was piqued by a small clip in a local newspaper last week. It stated that Forest Grove would be holding its 15th Annual Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival, and anyone was welcome to come and participate. Since I had only passed through Forest Grove several years ago, I decided this was a perfect Saturday afternoon activity that would introduce me to the town. The ambitious arrived at 9am, although it appeared that a number of participants had just started not too long before I arrived around one o’clock. For only $10, you were assigned a 3 x 3 sidewalk block [View Full Entry]

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