Norm Ragsdale

Browncoat, remoteTVengineer, sailor, & proud grandpa

[Norm Ragsdale @9tiercel]

@Jayne_Statue Amazing!!!

[Norm Ragsdale @9tiercel]

@Jayne_Statue Let us know if you do. Love to see it.

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@Dean_Devlin @tntdrama Thank you so much for putting it up on #ElectricNOW, we finally got to watch season one, & it was such a great ride!!
Thinking maybe you can save Doctor Who.

[Norm Ragsdale @9tiercel]

@wdlyon There’s an Amish donut stand by the Tyson Wells Store (which has a ton of games)

[Norm Ragsdale @9tiercel]

@wdlyon Adam never looked better!

[SONS OF LIBERTY -MAGA MOVEMENT !!! @eagameover]

GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡
My respect 96 years .
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AMERICAN MADE .

The GOAT !!

Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .

[Norm Ragsdale @9tiercel]

@wdlyon Copy cat

[Norm Ragsdale @9tiercel]

@wdlyon Love that! My sweetie does that too for me!

[Charlie Daniels @CharlieDaniels]

Keeping Charlie's legacy alive. - TeamCDB

Benghazi ain't going away! #BenghaziAintGoingAway

[Norm Ragsdale @9tiercel]

@wdlyon Awesome!!

[Dean Devlin @Dean_Devlin]

Gratitude. We built ElectricNOW as a hub for fans of our shows. Fans of escapist and cult entertainment. They built it into the platform it is today. Remarkable.

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@EddieMcClintock @lynnsanchez Congrats!!🎉
Barb & I are at 48 on 4/22.

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@shawnabenson Unsure of the water temp myself, but glad you’re around.

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@Jayne_Statue @Whataburger Luckily it was unsweetened, but still…

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@Jayne_Statue We so wanted to be down there this week, but life had other plans for us this month.

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@Jayne_Statue Ouch, but so true!1

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@Jayne_Statue I do believe so!

[Norm Ragsdale @9tiercel]

@Jayne_Statue But which thought?

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@Matt_Pinner All 20 for me!