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February 4, 2017 by Shelly 2 Comments

Hitting the (Glass) Wall

Last summer our kids took us to go through the glass labyrinth located in the front yard area of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.

A labyrinth, as you probably know, is a maze, an irregular set of passageways that make it hard to find your way through from the beginning to the end. The walls of the passageways can be made out of all kinds of materials- hedge bushes, corn stalks, hay bales, mirrors or in this case, glass, making the walls see through.

It was fun to stand and watch for awhile. The adults had their guard up, but kids went in quickly and would run pell-mell into the glass walls. They would stop, confused, feel with their hands, turn, and then move forward quickly again till they hit another wall, and then another.

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January 14, 2017 by Shelly 12 Comments

Resolutions From the ER

No one likes hearing an alarm- an alarm clock, a tornado or a fire alarm. How about if that alarm is coming from inside your body, it’s your pacemaker device and you are standing in the middle of a pasture by yourself? That was what recently happened to my husband, Calvin. We didn’t even know the device could give an alarm. It sounded like one of those European police car sirens, too-doo too-doo too-doo.

Of course we immediately headed to the emergency room and prayed the device would not quit on the way for he is 100% dependent on it. [Read more…]

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