Posted on Monday, 18th July 2011 by chrisjones
There are spoilers here if you haven’t read or seen Harry Potter movies and books. But if you haven’t, why you’re wasting your time reading this instead of that I’ll never know. Last week I went to scout camp. I’m not the Scoutmaster, only the Assistant Scoutmaster. Ordinarily, the Scoutmaster is the one that takes [...]
Tags: Harry Potter, Lynn Sorensen, perseverance
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Posted on Thursday, 7th July 2011 by chrisjones
Probably, you’re not following me on Twitter, so here’s what you’re missing: 2011-07-07 02:08:39 CjLehi: #blessing 8,9,10,11,12 and 13: Valter Nassi’s incredible Tuscan Promenade at the indescribable Cucina Toscana. 2011-07-06 23:52:37 CjLehi: #blessing 7: wisdom enough to give no response under provocation. More bad news, but I have not compounded it with foolishness. For once. [...]
Tags: #blessing, Love, perseverance
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Posted on Tuesday, 15th June 2010 by chrisjones
My son Nicholas tells me he wants to be a writer. I think that’s wonderful, except for one thing: He’s wrong. How do I know this? How can I penetrate the heart of my 16-year-old son so deeply, to expose this secret? Simple. Writers do one thing that other people do not. They write. And [...]
Tags: discipline, perseverance, Work
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Posted on Wednesday, 9th June 2010 by chrisjones
Once upon a time, when I was in sixth grade, my very excellent teacher, Mrs. Lindstrom, put the class through a month-long exercise in market economics. At least, I think that’s what it was. Anyway, in this exercise, each of us had money to spend and each of us had a profession, through which we [...]
Tags: action, discipline, perseverance
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Posted on Tuesday, 26th August 2008 by chrisjones
Last week, my home computer gave up the ghost. I shut it down one night, and in the morning, nothing. No boot cycle. Nothing. That usually means a blown motherboard, though I couldn’t tell you how it happened, so rather than go and get a new one and see if I could get all my [...]
Tags: adversity, overcoming obstacles, perseverance
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