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Canton and Papa

I love this photo of the big boy! He loves cameras already. After you take a picture he wants to see it on the back of the camera.

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Canton and the horse named Moose

Canton got a "horse" for Christmas. We named it Moose. Not after the animal but after the great wildlife photographer Moose Peterson. You can ask him to find Moose and he goes to the horse. He is gonna be one mixed up kid.

Canton and Papa

Canton and papa taken by Kandice. Life is beautiful when you love and are loved.

David Johnson

I was driving down I-30 today and I saw this man running beside the freeway carrying an American flag. He was celebrating Barack Obama’s inauguration. It was beautiful! He was so full of joy.

I was on the phone with my daughter, Kandice, and told her I had to stop, go give that guy a hug and see if he would let me take his picture. I know, a 6’4”, 250 pound, very white man from Texas isn’t supposed to stop on the freeway and hug a black man he has never met. But, it just seemed like the right thing to do. It seemed like what we had in common as humans and Americans was much greater than our differences. 

So, I went down an exit, turned around, looped back and crossed back over the freeway to see if I could find him again. I did. His name is David Johnson. I just stood beside a crowded freeway and gave him a hug and took his picture. We both cried a little. In very manly ways. :)

After I stopped, a guy pulled up behind me.  It was a videographer for channel 5 news. I felt a little awkward talking to the reporter dude. I felt like I was intruding on David’s moment.

Here are a couple more pics.

 

 

Martin Luther King Jr

He was possibly the greatest leader of the 20th century. He changed a nation. He loved peace. He believed in excellence.

He said. “If a man is called to be a street sweeper he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven will pause to say, 'There lived a great street sweeper who did his job well'."

Go Gators!!!

The Florida Gators are NCAA champions with a 24-14 win over the Oklahoma Sooners.

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