It was July, so I knew the depth of the Lake had dropped drastically, but this seemed unbelievable. The Christmas trees were standing out of the water! Although not a statement you’re likely to hear very often (if ever), it was nevertheless true.

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Admitting we are wrong, or even a little mistaken, is one of the hardest steps for us to take. Instead, it is easier to become immovable; to set our feet, clench our jaws and growl at the hard fact that we might, possibly, maybe need to admit our error. This is not a flaw unique to our generation.

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Throughout history and from every corner of our planet, people have looked up and spoke to the Moon or about it. Now, Armstrong was going to speak to us from it. His words from the lunar surface that day continue their historic echo, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

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Our parents warned us about using four-letter words. And yet, we can probably rattle off most of them from memory. But, there is one particular four-letter word that I really hate to hear. Yet, I still use it all of the time. And I am not alone! These four letters can add hours to our day, “just” like that.

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Shepard was ready for this moment. With the launch of Freedom 7, he would become the first American to burst the bonds of earth and travel into space.

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Again, the dinner bell echoed throughout the field. We were faced with a choice. We could either unload the unwieldy logs, free the trailer from the mud, and then reload it, log by log, or… we could find a bigger tractor.

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The evening was particularly chilly, even for September in Atlanta. The shouts of fans were visible in the night air, like an early morning mist rolling across a still, cool lake. Welcome to baseball in the fall.

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As we drove down the dust blown highway to California we never expected that our relaxing, father-son getaway would have such violent, unintended consequences.

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As we are getting to know each other, I thought it would be fun to explore a story that is based on two of my greatest interests, engineering and linguistics.

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Far too often, our listening skills devolve into getting just enough information from a person so that we can give our opinion, counter their previous point or tell them a far more important story. I believe our friends, neighbors, and even relative strangers, are desperate to know that there are people in their world who are willing to actively listen to their real questions. 

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