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Suns go to the playoffs! ☄️

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You may not want to talk with me right now. I’m reading Ron Chernow’s biography of George Washington and anything you say will definitely be related to courageous deeds or good tailoring.

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All the paintings I did in January. 🎨

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Watching shooting stars and the lunar eclipse this morning with my daughter. Lovely.

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\"Girl

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Sunset out in Marana. Eastside, Westside.

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Finished reading The Dip. Main idea: If you compete, only aim to be the best. Not just better than most. But first ask if you have the time, talent, resources, and focus to get through the dip. If not, quit and be the best elsewhere. If you do, commit and push through! The rewards are are huge. 📚

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I finished reading: Smart Brevity by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz. Not everything needs to be brief, but most things do. This book can help. 📚

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Day 3 Strada Easel Challenge - Tucson mountains. My first plein air of a sunset. Can’t wait to try again.

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Day 2 Strada Easel Challenge

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Finished reading: In the Hands of the People by Jon Meacham 📚

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Day 1 Strada Easel Challenge.

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I painted

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Finished reading: In the Hands of the People by Jon Meacham 📚

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Finished reading: In the Hands of the People by Jon Meacham 📚

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Got one of the kids a label maker.

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🔗 Goodbye “Big Eva,” Hello “Gig Eva”

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🔗 Goodbye “Big Eva,” Hello “Gig Eva”

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On Repeat: Alexandra Whittingham | Letters from Paris

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🔗 Profile of Tucson Muralist, Ignacio Garcia by Sarah Lapidis. Casas Adobes also has some, at La Guadalajara and El Conquistador Hilton Resort map.

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I’m reading: Right Kind of Wrong by Amy C. Edmondson. She helpfully distinguishes between different kinds of mistakes. This is a more useful thing than I realized when I started this book.

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I started reading: The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition by John W. James, Russell Friedman. About halfway through. So far very good.

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Finished reading: A Heart Aflame for God by Matthew C. Bingham. Bingham does an excellent job synthesizing the Reformed perspective on spiritual formation and interacting with other views. 📚

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Finished reading: The Doodle Revolution by Sunni Brown. I loved working slowly through this book; learned a lot. I even adjusted my sermon prep process as a result. 📚

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Reading: Saving the Reformation by W. Robert Godfrey 📚

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@KyleEssary 👏🏻

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@eastbrad wow

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@TucsonSentinel here are a few blog posts I wrote from a parent’s perspective about CTE.

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@Mtt that’s pretty sweet. If you want to explore a leather option, I love my Topsider by Open Sea Leather. They also have some sweet wallet+pen combo options and one that takes a mini notebook.

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@bbowman yes!!

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@ReaderJohn haha, they’ve been doing this a while now!

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@rscottjones gorgeous.

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@danalcantara I pray you can get your visa. The pilgrim life can be a tough. Better things are on the horizon.

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“they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.”

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@manton that would be so fun.

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@ChrisJWilson thank you. Everything should be working now.

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@eastbrad Nice!

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@manton I’d love see all cars have a 2nd sound option. How about in addition to the honk, we also have a ding? Specifically this ding. (It’s from ​the Knog Oi Luxe bicycle bell.) And maybe we could find some way to activate it other than a center-body palm heel strike?

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@manton Waiting is often best. And pedestrians need more love.

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@toddgrotenhuis 💯

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@TucsonSentinel Thanks for sharing. Great album.

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@danalcantara That’s so cool to know you are from here. If you ever come back and visit, let’s get together! Send me an email sometime: christopherchelpka@pm.me. I’d love to know how you got from Tucson to Scotland.

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@Mtt I have a field watch from Vaer which I love. Based on what you are looking at, I think you might be interested in what they offer. From your choices, I’d probably go with #1 for EDC, although #9 is more fun and hard to resist.

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@cjhubbs Nice watch!

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@ReaderJohn It’s not common in presbyterian churches.

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@ReaderJohn We’re no Seattle but we do get about 11.5 inches of annual rainfall. That’s about 1.4x more than the utility provides each year to the whole city! Not saying we wouldn’t happily take more though.

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@numericcitizen Someone is a good swimmer!

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@annahavron I love that. Well said.

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@mwerickson Here’s one version and another.

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@nathanrhale I didn’t know about the online version. Thanks. netbible.org/reader

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@ChiaCheer thanks for sharing your thoughts. And I’m glad you enjoyed the links.

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