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Jack Shinholser has 628 articles published.

FORM AND ESSENCE

FORM AND ESSENCE The human brain loves form. However, the heart and soul must inform form, enliven form, and give meaning to form to ensure that the whole truth, the essence of a thing is expressed. So, we must not …

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THE MOMENT

THE MOMENT It was mid-afternoon one beautiful spring day in 1990. I’d been to Nashville to see a friend and was headed home to Lebanon about 20 miles east on Interstate 40. My old worn out VW bus seemed to …

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GRANDDADDY

GRANDDADDY Stories, White Hair, and Chocolate Cake My granddaddy always referred to God as the All Mighty or All Mighty God but, to my knowledge, he never went to church. He was one of those people who, as far as …

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MY GREAT ADVENTURE

MY GREAT ADVENTURE Life keeps coming at me like a rolling, unfolding, cosmic jubilee carnival and I keep trying to capture it on paper. My writer’s intuition keeps telling me to keep it as warm and personal as possible. So, …

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LESTER DISAPPEARS

LESTER DISAPPEARS A short mystery Lester could hardly breathe, he was exhausted and the 320 pound man pinning him to the canvas was smothering him, he heard the referee slap the canvas for a count of three, another lose. Lester …

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DREAMS LIVE AND DIE

DREAMS LIVE AND DIE I had a dream that a group of brilliant, geneticist and horticulturist bread and developed an amazing new plant that quickly became enormously popular, more popular than any other plant ever has been. It was a …

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UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE Unconditional love, we can find it in three places that I know of: from God, always…… just about all dogs, anytime…… and a very large percentage of mothers, thank goodness. The joy is to need it less and …

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