Monthly Archives: August 2016
10. There are amazing life forms here that just don’t seem to live anywhere else, like the saguaro. 9. There are not enough plants here to fuel the fires like in California, not near here. 8. There is not enough rain here to flood for very long — it floods on over a micro area and quickly dissipates. 7. Even the name means rising rekindled from ashes. 6. It is affordable and beautiful, and there are jobs. 5. Mountains, sunshine, arid conditions…..
Programmed by both popular culture and experience, we too often think of preachers as unworldly hot-house creatures, ill equipped to face challenges of a brutal real world. In her new book, “Rekindled,” Teresa Irizarry gives us a fresh take on a well-known character from America’s earliest days. Irizarry, who has ties to Northeast Texas, recasts Roger Williams, one of the Baptist Church’s founders, in the pioneer spirit of a Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett while still giving due respect to…..
The Rio Olympics may be the athlete’s big event, but for those watching they can inspire a new beginning. As Katinka Hosszu of Hungary shows us what it its like to come back stronger than ever and smash a world record, we can dream. As Oksana Chusovitina competes for Uzbekistan in her 7th Olympics at age 41, we can say like her as we are given another day to wake up in the morning, “I can do more.” One way…..