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Absolutely love snowy football games and it looks like a straight up snow globe in Cleveland!

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11/02/2024

I got 21 reactions and 3 replies on my recent top post! Thank you all for your continued support. I could not have done it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

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09/11/2024

On this night, September 10, 2001

246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights. 2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning. 343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their next shift. 60 police officers went to sleep in preparation for morning patrol. 8 paramedics went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift of saving lives and 1 K9 went to bed a good boy 🐾🐾

None of them saw past 10:00 am the next morning Sept 11, 2001. In the blink of an eye, their lives were cut short.

Tonight, as you prepare for bed in preparation for your life tomorrow, kiss the ones you love, snuggle a little tighter, and never take one second of your life for granted.
Credits Dennis James

08/15/2024

THE BRIDGE BUILDER

An old man going a lone highway...came in the evening cold and gray....to a chasm vast and deep and wide...through which was flowing a sullen tide....The old man crossed in the twilight dim...that swollen stream held no fears for him...But, he turned when safe on the other side...and built a bridge to span the tide..."Old man" said a pilgrim near..."you are wasting your strength with building here...your journey will end with the ending day...you never again will pass this way..you have crossed the chasm deep and wide...why build a bridge at even tide?"

The builder lifted his old gray head..."Good friend in the path that I have come...there followeth after me today a youth whose feet must pass this way...this swollen stream that was naught to me ... to that fair haired youth may a pitfall be...He too must cross in the twilight dim...

Good friend...I am building the
bridge for....him...."

Good friends....may we all be bridge builders for those to come...

Grateful for you.

Virgil Dominic

07/25/2024

SLEEPLESS NIGHT

It is way past midnight. I have been searching for sleep, but can't find it. My mind is filled with the politicians hurling insults at each other as our divided nation staggers toward the presidential election. I go to my desk. I rifle through bills, reports, letters and suddenly I stumble upon a spiritual reading called..."Thoughts From Mother Teresa." I begin to read..."People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building someone could destroy overnight. Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway.. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the world the best you have anyway.

You see in the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."

As these thoughts settle into my mind...I find a calm, a quiet, a reassurance that all will be well. After all, everything that happens is between me and God. What could ge better?

I am going to sleep now. Good night, dear reader.

I'm Virgil Dominic

07/24/2024

SIMPLE BUT PROFOUND

There is a hospital in Seattle, Washington.
It is a special hospital because all of its patients are children. Most of them are very sick. But, a new way was found to bring a smile to their small faces. A new wing was being was being added to the hospital. Children pressed their noses to the windows to watch the construction men at work. One day, one of the ironworkers noticed their faces behind the glass. He reached into his equipment bag and spray painted on one of the girders the word..."Hi." The sick children responded by holding up signs to the windows. Each had the child's name on it. And, lo and behold, something magical happened. The workers began spray painting each of their names onto the iron girders that form the framework of the building. According to THIS WEEK magazine, at last count the ironworkers had painted 50 names. Such a simple task. But, so profound...that in the midst of all of the troubles in Our Times a group of men found a way to show care and love for children who needed both. A reminder, perhaps, despite the headlines of hate in our politically divided nation...goodness still remains in our country and thanks to people like those ironworkers goodness will prevail no matter the challenges ahead. Thank you for your goodness, dear readers. I'm Virgil Dominic.

05/29/2024

THE CAT

A slight beam of sunlight slipped into the darkened bedroom. Lying on the bed the cat slowly opened his eyes. Silently,he regarded the light with suspicion and annoyance. It had interrupted his sleep and his dreams of chasing butterflies through fields of flowers. He was just about to catch one when the dream disappeared with the coming of the light.
The cat was a Tabby. He was black and brown with a question mark tail. His name was Sam. When awake he was a very active cat. He prowled the house looking for who knows what. And, he meowed loud and often when he wanted something to eat, which was often.

He was a lovable creature and extremely devoted to his mistress, Shawn . He followed her everywhere, delighted in jumping into her lap and in snuggling in the soft warm blankets which covered her legs as she watched television. It was his favorite part of the day. Sam would settle into those blankets and do what he did best, sleep. As his nap deepened a small sound sould emanate from his slack body. He was snoring. It was a comforting sound as night descended on the home where he lived. As Shawn stroked his silky hair the snore was replaced with a gentle purr. On and on it went creating the feeling that whatever the troubles of the day...all would be well.

Sometimes this peace would be interrupted by the weather. There would be lightning and thunder. Then, Sam would rapidly rouse himself. He would look all around and especially at his mistress. She would then comfort him with gentle strokes and a smile that indicated there was nothing to worry about. Sam quieted down, listened to the rain outside and once again stretched and laid down in the folds of those warm blankets.

As his mistress gazed down on Sam a thought came to her. How good of God to have created pets. Such a source of fun and entertainment, of companionship and an ability to create smiles and laughter and most of all...Love.

As Shawn pondered these thoughts Sam slept on. Content to know the night was long and the light of the rising sun was hours away. Sam knew he had plenty of time to chase those butterflies and perhaps catch one and make her his friend. In his dreams Sam knew that all things were possible ... even peace on Earth.

He was that kind of Cat.

Written by Virgil Dominic