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diff --git a/md/02_The_Knot_Hole_in_the_Old_Wooden_Bridge.md b/md/02_The_Knot_Hole_in_the_Old_Wooden_Bridge.md index da71ee5..c987dcc 100644 --- a/md/02_The_Knot_Hole_in_the_Old_Wooden_Bridge.md +++ b/md/02_The_Knot_Hole_in_the_Old_Wooden_Bridge.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: The Knot Hole in the Old Wooden Bridge +lesson: Be a hero and lift others up --- Circa 1958 diff --git a/md/03_Adventures_on_Black_Cap_Mountain.md b/md/03_Adventures_on_Black_Cap_Mountain.md index 01b4339..f55970a 100644 --- a/md/03_Adventures_on_Black_Cap_Mountain.md +++ b/md/03_Adventures_on_Black_Cap_Mountain.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Adventures on Black Cap Mountain +lesson: Example of prayer, confirm your love to others --- I was born in a dusty little desert town in Southern Oregon called diff --git a/md/04_Dans_First_Big_Trip.md b/md/04_Dans_First_Big_Trip.md index 0692b80..1d0c54c 100644 --- a/md/04_Dans_First_Big_Trip.md +++ b/md/04_Dans_First_Big_Trip.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Dan's First Big Trip +lesson: Be content with simple blessings --- Big adventures that took us far from home were not a part of my early diff --git a/md/05_Essential_Ingredients_of_Life_Food_and_Love.md b/md/05_Essential_Ingredients_of_Life_Food_and_Love.md index 6f559d1..b117c68 100644 --- a/md/05_Essential_Ingredients_of_Life_Food_and_Love.md +++ b/md/05_Essential_Ingredients_of_Life_Food_and_Love.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: "Essential Ingredients of Life: Food and Love" +lesson: Money and riches are not vital to happiness --- When I was growing up in Lakeview, food was a simple affair, but it was diff --git a/md/06_Growing_Up_with_My_Dad_Ralph.md b/md/06_Growing_Up_with_My_Dad_Ralph.md index 18c40ad..4d98b9f 100644 --- a/md/06_Growing_Up_with_My_Dad_Ralph.md +++ b/md/06_Growing_Up_with_My_Dad_Ralph.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Growing Up with My Dad Ralph +lesson: Take live's bumps and bruises with a chuckle --- Times were tough when I was a little boy, but I never had a single clue diff --git a/md/08_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People.md b/md/08_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People.md index 5831e71..b6bac74 100644 --- a/md/08_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People.md +++ b/md/08_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Win Friends and Influence People +lesson: The soft-spoken approach beats yelling every time --- _Mom had a special knack for teaching without using undue drama. The diff --git a/md/09_Dans_Hobbies_in_High_School.md b/md/09_Dans_Hobbies_in_High_School.md index 6d42b22..8f7fbed 100644 --- a/md/09_Dans_Hobbies_in_High_School.md +++ b/md/09_Dans_Hobbies_in_High_School.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- title: Dan's Hobbies in High School -moral: We all come from humble beginnings. Keep the humility throughout your life +lesson: We all come from humble beginnings. Keep the humility throughout your life --- Basically, I was the classical definition of a nerd. Judge for diff --git a/md/10_Dynamite_and_the_Old_Snag.md b/md/10_Dynamite_and_the_Old_Snag.md index 9b14ac5..bf07ce8 100644 --- a/md/10_Dynamite_and_the_Old_Snag.md +++ b/md/10_Dynamite_and_the_Old_Snag.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Dynamite and the Old Snag +lesson: Don't trust your eyes. look upon the heart --- _I can't remember the precise time of this memory. My best guess is that diff --git a/md/11_Melodys_Malady.md b/md/11_Melodys_Malady.md index 3aa077b..e85cd9b 100644 --- a/md/11_Melodys_Malady.md +++ b/md/11_Melodys_Malady.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Melody's Malady +lesson: Serve others to heal your troubled soul --- By Han Ying diff --git a/md/12_Chocolate_Waterfalls.md b/md/12_Chocolate_Waterfalls.md index b214a26..ee994aa 100644 --- a/md/12_Chocolate_Waterfalls.md +++ b/md/12_Chocolate_Waterfalls.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Chocolate Waterfalls +lesson: Don't take simple blessings you enjoy every day for granted. Be grateful for simple blessings --- Just after my 20th birthday, in the summer of 1973, I decided to take diff --git a/md/20_Dans_Mission_in_Brazil.md b/md/20_Dans_Mission_in_Brazil.md index e512825..7a89bff 100644 --- a/md/20_Dans_Mission_in_Brazil.md +++ b/md/20_Dans_Mission_in_Brazil.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Dan's Mission in Brazil +lesson: The power of giving compliments to lift others up --- It's been over 47 years since I left home to go preach the gospel in diff --git a/md/21_A_Date_with_Eternity.md b/md/21_A_Date_with_Eternity.md index 1b3490f..be3a966 100644 --- a/md/21_A_Date_with_Eternity.md +++ b/md/21_A_Date_with_Eternity.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: A Date with Eternity +lesson: Be cheerful in the face of adversity --- I was in my junior year of the engineering program at Brigham Young diff --git a/md/22_The_Volkswagen_that_Couldnt.md b/md/22_The_Volkswagen_that_Couldnt.md index 7203a6d..fad1938 100644 --- a/md/22_The_Volkswagen_that_Couldnt.md +++ b/md/22_The_Volkswagen_that_Couldnt.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: The Volkswagen that Couldn't +lesson: The best way to triumph when you have been assaulted or abused is to adopt an attitude of forgiveness --- 1978 diff --git a/md/23_Dem_Bones.md b/md/23_Dem_Bones.md index a6b4c1a..bdeac29 100644 --- a/md/23_Dem_Bones.md +++ b/md/23_Dem_Bones.md @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ --- title: Dem Bones +lesson: We become the sum of our choice --- -Life Lessons: We become the sum of our choices. - Thankfully, I've never suffered a broken bone in my life, but Lori and several of our children have. The most recent occurrence was Lori's wobbly-rock incident at Girl's Camp that resulted in a shiny new diff --git a/md/24_Emilys_War_Dance_for_Hurricane_Bob.md b/md/24_Emilys_War_Dance_for_Hurricane_Bob.md index d18d819..aaa3ddf 100644 --- a/md/24_Emilys_War_Dance_for_Hurricane_Bob.md +++ b/md/24_Emilys_War_Dance_for_Hurricane_Bob.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Emily's War Dance for Hurricane Bob +lesson: Don't let worry distract you from the magnificence of nature and unbridled emotional exuberance --- August 20, 1991 diff --git a/md/25_Encounter_with_a_Stubborn_Tree.md b/md/25_Encounter_with_a_Stubborn_Tree.md index 701c8b7..66d9895 100644 --- a/md/25_Encounter_with_a_Stubborn_Tree.md +++ b/md/25_Encounter_with_a_Stubborn_Tree.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Encounter with a Stubborn Tree +lesson: Nothing matters more than loving relationships with family members --- Winter, 1997 diff --git a/md/27_A_Critter_in_the_House.md b/md/27_A_Critter_in_the_House.md index 0ba3966..1c658fb 100644 --- a/md/27_A_Critter_in_the_House.md +++ b/md/27_A_Critter_in_the_House.md @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ --- title: A Critter in the House +lesson: Compassion and forgiveness are better than anger --- -Life Lesson: Compassion and Forgiveness are better than anger. - This story happened in the Maine house, probably about 1996. As far as I can remember, I was the only person at home, which was a very rare occasion. I could be just making it all up because I have no diff --git a/md/35_Some_Rain_must_Fall.md b/md/35_Some_Rain_must_Fall.md index 0ca8fd7..ec89419 100644 --- a/md/35_Some_Rain_must_Fall.md +++ b/md/35_Some_Rain_must_Fall.md @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ --- title: Some Rain Must Fall +lesson: Some sorrow will be experiences by everyone in this life. It's all part of the plan --- +<!-- TODO: remove escaped characters --> + The saying goes, \"Into every life some rain must fall.\" As I look back I would have to say very little rain has fallen into my life. When Lori and I began our lives together our motto was, \"We\'re so lucky!\" It diff --git a/md/37_The_Blackberry_Wars.md b/md/37_The_Blackberry_Wars.md index 238c723..a70ab37 100644 --- a/md/37_The_Blackberry_Wars.md +++ b/md/37_The_Blackberry_Wars.md @@ -1,12 +1,8 @@ --- title: The Blackberry Wars +lesson: Take care of a problem early before it becomes a monster.;Opposition enhances our appreciation of the good times.;Adversity is our friend, not our enemy. Embrace it. --- -Life Lessons: - -- Take care of a problem early before it becomes a monster. -- Opposition enhances our appreciation of the good times. -- Adversity is our friend, not our enemy. Embrace it. Since Lori and I moved into the Ridgefield homestead house in the summer of 2006, I have been waging a war with the deadly blackberry invasion diff --git a/md/38_Tree_Frog_Sabotage.md b/md/38_Tree_Frog_Sabotage.md index d5e0506..7fec1f9 100644 --- a/md/38_Tree_Frog_Sabotage.md +++ b/md/38_Tree_Frog_Sabotage.md @@ -1,10 +1,8 @@ --- title: Tree Frog Sabotage +lesson: Give the knot-heads the benefit of the doubt --- -Life Lesson: Give the knot-heads the benefit of the doubt. They may have -a good reason for their behavior. - I was really irritated. Most of my friends kid me about being able to detect a mood change. Lori tells me that the best indicator to her is my eyebrows. If one eyebrow twitches, I\'ve had a mood swing. If both of diff --git a/md/41_Legendary_Rocks.md b/md/41_Legendary_Rocks.md index 41db49d..d97d511 100644 --- a/md/41_Legendary_Rocks.md +++ b/md/41_Legendary_Rocks.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ --- title: Legendary Rocks +lesson: Rely on God's appraisals for what has real value in this life --- -Life Lesson: Rely on God's appraisals for what has real value in this -life. +<!-- TODO: Fix image formatting --> One of my favorite duties as a grandfather is taking the grandchildren on exciting expeditions in the river bottoms near the homestead house in diff --git a/md/42_A_Date_with_Eternity_Epilog.md b/md/42_A_Date_with_Eternity_Epilog.md index 5453d17..bcfc915 100644 --- a/md/42_A_Date_with_Eternity_Epilog.md +++ b/md/42_A_Date_with_Eternity_Epilog.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ --- -title: A Date with Eternity Epilogue +title: "A Date with Eternity: Epilogue" +lesson: Do things every day to retain that vital eternal perspective that aids our smaller daily decisions. --- -Life Lesson: Do things every day to retain that vital eternal -perspective that aids our smaller daily decisions. +<!-- TODO: Escape characters and image formatting --> This story is a follow-on to the original article. It will be an addition of insights that have come with the perspective of time. I diff --git a/md/43_The_Parable_of_the_Sower_a_New_Interpretation.md b/md/43_The_Parable_of_the_Sower_a_New_Interpretation.md index 70b0c89..02956b3 100644 --- a/md/43_The_Parable_of_the_Sower_a_New_Interpretation.md +++ b/md/43_The_Parable_of_the_Sower_a_New_Interpretation.md @@ -1,10 +1,9 @@ --- title: "The Parable of the Sower: a New Interpretation" +lesson: We can choose how we react to adversity. Adversity will ultimately make us stronger --- -Life Lessons: We can choose how we react to adversity. - -Adversity will ultimately make us stronger. +<!-- TODO: image formatting and escape characters --> Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019\ \ diff --git a/md/44_The_Progress_of_Technology_During_My_Lifespan.md b/md/44_The_Progress_of_Technology_During_My_Lifespan.md index ea080c7..648ff73 100644 --- a/md/44_The_Progress_of_Technology_During_My_Lifespan.md +++ b/md/44_The_Progress_of_Technology_During_My_Lifespan.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: The Progress of Technology During my Lifespan +lesson: The brilliance we can find with our hearts will always far outshine that which can be produced by the minds of this world --- This article is a collection of memories about various technologies that diff --git a/md/45_Two_Funerals_and_a_Wedding.md b/md/45_Two_Funerals_and_a_Wedding.md index 90f5a3f..2f7d87b 100644 --- a/md/45_Two_Funerals_and_a_Wedding.md +++ b/md/45_Two_Funerals_and_a_Wedding.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ --- title: Two Funerals and a Wedding +lesson: Death is not a tragedy in the eternal perspective --- The first two funerals I attended in my life were years and miles apart. |