Tim Lamson's (tjlamson) Blog

Just got back from visiting the Nixon and Reagan Presidential Libraries.  If you haven't visited either of these Presidential Libraries, I encourage you to do so.  There's so much to see, and even more to learn about the lives of these two men.Nixon was before my time.  All I knew about Nixon was...

A very dear and special person in my life once gave me a beautiful and cherished tapestry with this Bible verse on it,"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee."~Psalm122:6 While my heritage is not Jewish, it was my great honor to be there in person, and walk along the r...

Billy Graham lies in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda today. Regardless of one's religious beliefs, there's no doubt he was quite the human being.  The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association was a ministry that touched millions all across the world that spanned decades.  Yet rarely, if ever, was there hin...

Thanksgiving is actually explained in some, if not many, school textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives.  Nothing against our native American friends, but that isn't historically accurate. While the Pilgrims were appreciative of any help fro...

Seeing all the catastrophic flooding from hurricane Harvey is heartbreaking, to say the very, very least.  Hundreds and hundreds of square miles of water.  The damage and destruction to property alone will take years to rebuild. But what's even more devastating is the medical and emotional devast...

Fake news.  Seems like no matter the channel, there's a lot of it.  Some channels more than others. Fake News is a relatively new term, but it isn't really anything new.Those of us in real estate have heard it our entire careers... "All repairs have been completed!"  Yet a detailed look during th...

 Habits.  They can work for you.  They can work against you. It's no secret to any of us that slight changes today can, over the course of time, significantly damage or improve future results. Which of your habits are working for you?  Which ones are working against you? I encourage you to assess...

Happy Thanksgiving!This year was filled with many things for which to be thankful... a cousin who beat cancer, another cousin's husband who is also now cancer free after a long battle, an Uncle who survived what could have been a fatal accident, and a 92-year-old-mother who beat a life-threatenin...

"A Day for Surprises"byDorothy M. Lamson Looking forward to celebrating my mother's 92nd birthday soon! Over the years she's written a lot of short stories about several wild animals she took in as pets as she was growing up on the farm, including the true stories about:"Loreena the Talking Parro...

We've all heard people say it.  "You have your truth, I have my truth," as if polar opposite positions are somehow  simultaneously in agreement with the actual truth. Another name for that way of thinking is called, "Relative truth," popularly expressed verbally as, "It's all relative."   (Which ...