Everywhere he went, the man carried brightly colored balloons. He enjoyed watching them float above his head. And it was easy to hold the string in his hand or wrap it around his wrist and take his colorful balloons wherever he went. The other people where he worked were accustomed to seeing them. They didn’t [...]
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The Day I Met Daniel
It was an unusually cold day for the month of May. Spring had arrived and everything was alive with color. But a cold front from the north had brought winter’s chill back to Indiana.
I sat with two friends in the picture window of a quaint restaurant just off the corner of the town square. The [...]
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Table For Two
He sits by himself at a table for two.
The uniformed waiter returns to his side and asks, “Would you like to go ahead and order, sir?” The man has, after all, been waiting since seven o’clock — almost half an hour.
“No, thank you,” the man smiles. “I’ll wait for her a while longer. How about [...]
Banking At Its Best
When my son was a young teenager, he and his friend set out on a bus across town to purchase skateboard axles. They each had $20.
When they arrived downtown, they discovered they needed more money to cover bus fare and sales tax. They were short $3.75.
A branch of our bank was nearby, so they decided [...]
Between Friends
There once was a milkman in the early 1900’s named Jack. He and his horse, Pierre, did their job every day with joy in their hearts. Jack wasn’t so bright and he couldn’t read so when people needed extra milk, they would call to Jack as he left. They would yell, “I’ll need some extra [...]
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