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4 Simple Pleasures.

Scintilla Day 8: What are your simplest pleasures? Go beyond description and into showing the experience of each indulgence.  1) Eating out. I don’t even mean it has to be someplace fancy, though that has pleasures all its own as well. But the very act of leaving home to sit down somewhere else while other people prepare your …

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Charles Elwood Unglebower

Scintilla Day 7: Talk about a time when you saw your mother or father as a person independent of his or her identity as your parent. Most people in childhood see their parents as super human. But for me it was different and in a sense much worse. Because when I was a child, my father, Charles …

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Faith and Mount Kilimanjaro.

Scintilla Project, Day 6: Talk about an experience with faith. Your own, or someone else’s. Mount Kilimanjaro. I will never climb it. It is a near certainty I will never even see it from a distance. The best it will ever be for me is pictures and movies of various quality. I meet people who have …

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When I Got Away With It.

Hitting the ground running, just 24 hours after launching this new website, I will now begin my participation in the Scintilla Project. I am late to the party, so this is Day Five. The prompt is: Talk about a time you got away with it. I’d only been at this college for six weeks, having transferred …

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