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Download your Lenten Study Guide Here ================================================================================== Denial for today: “I fast from fear.” Affirmation for today: “I feast on courage.”     I agree that this is a hard one, so let’s take it slowly.   It seems that I am asking you to just let go of your fear, your uneasiness, your worry.  And you […]

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DOWNLOADABLE STUDY GUIDE HERE   ********************************** What if you “liked” everything about your life? Sorry, I realize that’s too much to ask.  Let me rephrase it. What if you “accepted” everything about your life? Let’s go back a little further in this thought process.  You do understand that thoughts are things and they take up […]

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A new Lent for you–from Eric Butterworth Every year in late February or early March, the Lenten season begins.  It is, or can be, a marvelous experience in self-improvement.  In a way, Lent is coincidental with spring, the season of new growth in nature.  The trees and flowers are not content with the blooms of […]

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An introduction to Lent Lent is about personal growth. Welcome to a great experience in personal transformation.  That’s right!  Lent is a time for introspection; a time to look inward, to re-evaluate our patterns of thought, and emerge more capable of spreading love and light throughout the world.   Like the caterpiller becomes the butterfly, you […]

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I got my gold medal when…. Part 2 I just want everyone to know:   I have pursued a gold medal in Songahm Taekwondo many times, and never actually earned it.  Best I did was a bronze in 2010 and a silver in 2022.  The gold medals I won in 2009 XMA competition don’t count.  There […]

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Looking back over many years   NOTE:  All photos were taken on June 21, 2024 at the Southwest District Championships in Glendale, Arizona. Hello ATA Family!  It’s been more than 40 years since my wife and business partner helped me start the first ATA classes here in Phoenix, Arizona.   Over those years, I have […]

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It’s rather difficult to reflect on 71 years, especially when only 20 of those years have been digitized.  But I am glad I did this even with some holes in the crazy history.   I came up with a new name….. therubbadrummachiefmasterwaterskifanatichusbandfatherpops That’s the only way to cover 71 years.   I hope your 71 years have […]

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  FOUR DAYS ON AMERICA:  #4 July 4, 2023 I still think America is a great place because I know there are at least 165,000,000 good people here who live each day with a kind heart.  People like President Jimmy Carter…. who,  after leaving the White House, founded the Carter Center and has done more […]

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If you are not sure that America is a great place, then ask yourself these simple questions and you will realize why I still think so. Did you go to sleep last night in a nice bed in a comfortable house, probably with air conditioning and heat? Did you drive your car to work and […]

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FOUR DAYS ON AMERICA: July 2, 2023. (NOTE:  Be sure to watch the video at the end. Thanks. ) I still think the United States is a great place because we have accomplished great things in 250 years. We built a democracy, a grand experiment, which is still operating, despite the many threats, foreign and […]

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