Gregg Garner

I love my wife. I love my 3 girls and 2 boys. I love God. I love you, unconditionally ;-) Unless we enter into covenant together, then there are conditions!

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@retronyms what’s the volt and amperage necessary to effectively power the Wej?

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@kaylee_bug123 Thank you!!! lol

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Some people need to climb Everest to feel accomplished. I just needed to get to the gym today. I did it. lol.

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I just want to thank everybody. Well, everybody that is my friend and been helping me do the important work we’re doing. I’m just so glad to be surrounded by so many helpful and loving people! @LavyFernandez @SaraJoyDavis @juliewatson38 @JCarp_120 and Gabby Parker to name a few!

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It’s Christmas Eve, tomorrow, thousands of years ago, God will illuminate the most pressing need in the world we know - that impoverished families need help raising their children who have the potential to change the world. Let’s open our eyes to this revelation! Merry Christmas!

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🌐🎶 Dec 12, 1901: Marconi's first transatlantic radio signal opened new communication eras emphasizing innovations role in bridging divides. Everyday I communicate w/ my teams around the world virtually face2face. Lets go! #MarconiDay #GlobalUnity #greatcommission #December12 🌟

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💻 Dec 9, 1968: Engelbart's 'Mother of All Demos' - a digital revolution. His work fuels our global connections. Inspired by such pioneers, I'm grateful for the tech that connects me with my team across continents. #GlobalConnection #InnovateAndUnite 🌐🎵

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🎵 On this day in 1770, Beethoven was born. Despite becoming nearly deaf in his 20s, he created music that still inspires us today. His legacy? Overcoming adversity with creativity. #Overcomer #BeethovenBirthday #ArtisticResilience #December7 🎶✨🌍

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@JenniferBisop well, my mom wouldn't let me watch He-Man cause there's only one master of the universe lol. And she wasn't into Smurfs because of the sorcery and the abusive Gargamel character lol. So, it was Alvin and the Chipmunks, Muppet Babies, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles probably!

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Do you remember how excited you were to wake up early and watch cartoons on a Saturday morning? What was your favorite cartoon?

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Our Church is hosting this dear brother to share his gifts with us in music, this Friday night. #c4god #blessingoffor @BlessingOffor https://t.co/B22lhffN5O

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Singing songs w/ friends last night & sang the tune “frail” from Jars of Clay’s “Much Afraid” album.

“If I was not so weak. If I was not so cold. If I was not so scared of being broken growing old.”

I think it’s my fave album of theirs. What’s your fave Jars tune? #jarsofclay

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@TheScytheGuru nice. what examples of work would you give that fit that description?

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What do you guys think makes for a good story? What elements in a story are most essential to your ideal for a great storyline?

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“There’s nothing more draining than spending energy on yourself. And there’s nothing more energizing than spending yourself for others.” - Brandon Galford quoting a statement I made in a convo with him.

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You know that moment you realized you can’t keep up with your teenage kid… yeah… not yet. Not like this lol. #justicetsedeq #futbol

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This was a post from Rob’s 40th bday. Today, @hmunoz32 turns 40. Really really live Heath! Happy Birthday 🎊🎉🎈 ❤️

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@TheScytheGuru What do we call them now??

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Anytime I try to tweet, I feel like I need to be profound. Which makes me laugh. I like laughing. Laughing is profound. I want to laugh with you. Laugh with me. Simple.

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I like trees.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.