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James C. Schaap

Powerball

   News flash from CNN, just now read it when I opened my e-mail.  “Winning numbers for the nearly 580 million Powerball jackpot are 5-23-16-22-29.

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Some naked fear

 Sort of eerie is what it was. We came up over a hill and found it, just across the gravel from a sprawling field full

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Where the river bends

    Mitt would count them in his column, I’m sure.  After all, they certainly aren’t part of the 47% of us who leech off

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Morning Thanks–a sermon

She interrupted my sermon. . .but then, I’m not a preacher.  I’m a teacher–or I was a teacher. When I stood before them in that little church

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A Fifth Dimension

If you look closely here, in this single, little nook of the elegant, Victorian, and spirit-riddled Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, AK, you’ll see an arc,

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Harvey Dunn and the river rats

 The neighbors have that iconic Harvey Dunn (“The Prairie is My Garden”)  up on their living room wall, bold and beautiful. Somehow, I’d almost forgotten

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Mansions of glory

The shot is not sharp, but you get the picture.  That’s the ocean out there in the background, and the foreground is Laguna Beach.  The

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Zuni pueblo, circa 2310

  At least some of its features I could have guessed had I never opened the cover.  It’s plainly and unflinchingly Christian, for one, everything

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