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Speech Recognition and Snow
I’m experimenting with speech recognition on my new laptop. I’m frankly a better speaker than a writer so I do better when I write by talking it out first to myself. Psychotic? You decide. 🙂 While training the computer I came up with this snippet that I rather liked: It’s snowing here in the mountains. I took my dog for short walk earlier. I wasn’t going to, but he gets kind of impossible without it and heaven knows I need it too. I thought the snow was over, and was delighted to feel a few flakes. Then I thought it was really over, and was surprised to look back out…
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The Christmas Story of the Holly Tree
I usually tell this traditional story in the character of Mrs. Alice Porter, my southern storytelling character. When Jesus was born, the evil, wicked King Herod tried to kill all the boy children so he could murder the young king. Angels had shown up in Joseph’s dream and told him to take Mary and Jesus and hightail it for Egypt until the trouble was done. And so he did. It was about the third day on the road to Egypt, when trouble started. Joseph had stopped to rest Jack the donkey, who was seeing the world for the first time. Joseph climbed a large rock to look around the countryside.…
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Advent: The Coming of Christ Past, Future – and Present
The First Coming “In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city.” “And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered. And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped Him…