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Weekly Contest #366
1. My Backpack This is my backpack. Throughout my life, it’s been strapped on my back everywhere I go. It resembles an old army green military pack. As the distance has grown between my youth and where I am now, pondering what comes after I pass from this life, so has my pack. It’s enormous, reaching far above my head on top and below my knees on the bottom. From side to side it reaches out well beyond my shoulders. And, it’s heavy. It contains everything I’ve collected emotionally throughout my life. What I consider to be good stuff, and wh...
Weekly Contest #363
As we bask in the grey, stormy wetness that is typical in a Pacific Northwest Fall, my wife and I are comfortably relaxing in our recliners. Laughing at something funny on the television as the smell of the perfect stew fills the house. We started making homemade stew when we were dating, many, many years ago. Perfection wasn’t on our minds. We just felt like stew. It just sounded good. We read a recipe, made a list, went shopping, came home, and started. All of this was in haste. We rushed through the grocery store without considering the i...
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