The boy set Baby Bear in his backpack. “I want you to be my playmate,” said the boy. “I’m going to go to the beach. You look sleepy. You can come to the beach, too, when you wake up.” The boy ran to the beach. He was wearing swim trunks and he was carrying beach […]
Baby Bear had fallen asleep in the backpack. He was unaware of being carried into a house, dropped in a corner and then, picked up again and carried again. When the backpack was opened, Baby Bear found himself on a beach. Although he was used to splashing around in the water with his family, this
Yesterday, I got to go on a cruise with a group from church. It’s been a long time since my last cruise… all right… one week… I had a mini-cruise last week when I was covering a Lions Club event for the local newspaper (tough job, but someone’s got to do it). The boat that
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Near the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, located in the same building as the Amtrak station, there are a number of brightly colored murals. These vividly colored murals offer a story about local history. They tell the story of freedom seekers who traveled north to find safety across the river in Canada. They tell
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(almost)#WordlessWednesday A group of Buddhist monks started walking in Key West, Florida, on March 31st. Their destination was Niagara Falls. Yesterday, they arrived on Grand Island, where they took pictures with everyone along their path, making the people they visited very happy. Their walk is called “A Walk for World Peace.” They are an inspiration.
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On the shore of the island, Bearnacle Bear and his three pirate companions looked out to sea. They sat quietly, as each one of them was transfixed by the water, by the position of the sun in the sky, by the places out of sight and, for the time being, out of reach. The island
On a rocky coast, far from home, Bearnacle Bear and three pirates sat and watched the ocean. It had calmed down since the wild storm that caused the pirate ship to list wildly. The tender that they used to get away from the ship was damaged and possibly not sea worthy. They looked to the
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Aboard the pirate ship: part two It was late at night, and, on board the pirate ship, all of the sailors had eaten their food and had enjoyed many tastes of the purloined honey and jam. The entire crew had celebrated with jugs of something unidentifiable and alcoholic and surely full of rum, which made
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In the days when Bearnacle Bear was dreaming of the sea, a Bearish pirate captain came on shore and promised the adventure of a lifetime to young bears. Bearnacle begged his parents to let him go but his father looked skeptical. “No,” he said. “Something isn’t right here.” No matter how much little Bearnacle begged,
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When I was a kid, the highest praise I could possibly be given by my dad was that I was “perincon.” If you were perincon, you knew what you wanted and you had an idea of how to make that a reality. You were persistent, consistent, and insistent all at the same time. I feel
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