Tag: Easter

The Day is Precious All Around

Posted on April 20, 2025 by

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We made Easter baskets at our Ben Frankin store. Easter grass, chocolate bunnies, jellybeans – a lot of jellybeans – and a big toy of some kind like a kite or a plastic ball and bat. Then everything was wrapped in colored cellophane and… Continue Reading “The Day is Precious All Around”

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Drive By Hope

Posted on April 12, 2020 by

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Passover and Easter don’t always overlap. It just seems like they do. That seems right since both put so many people in a reflective, rebirth mode. Spring is the start of something. A new chance, new energy, new freedom. I am stronger because it… Continue Reading “Drive By Hope”

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Drive By Hope

Posted on April 16, 2017 by

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Passover and Easter don’t always overlap. It just seems like they do. That seems right since both put so many people in a reflective, rebirth mode. Spring is the start of something. A new chance, new energy, new freedom. I am stronger because it… Continue Reading “Drive By Hope”

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What happens here on Red's Wrap is all over the map. There is no single theme, no overarching gripe, no malady of my own or others that dominates. I write about what seems important or interesting at the moment and what aims me toward hope. I write stories, essays, poems - whatever fits the day and the mood. Nothing stays the same, here or anywhere. That's a good thing. Happiness. It's relative.

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