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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Working at the Dallas Chamber of Commerce in the 1980s, I witnessed the boom in downtown office tower construction. It was an exciting time with parties and celebrations as each new building topped out and opened, but by the end of the decade the boom was over and there were only two big construction projects under way: the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the Lew Sterrett Justice Center. I recall at the time being intrigued by the contrast of these very large, very different public works projects: performing arts on the one hand and criminal justice on the other.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

You just never know who you’re going to run into. After dinner with my mother on Friday, we dropped into her neighborhood Braum’s for ice cream. We were sitting in a booth when her eyes locked on someone across the room. A moment later, a man stepped up and then his wife followed and confirmed what she had thought: It was Khanh and Hop.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

Helping my mother look through some boxes in my father’s end of their bedroom closet, I pulled the lid off a box and found Dad’s 35mm Kodak Pony IV camera. It’s the only camera I ever saw him use, and it was my introduction to real photography and one of life’s great lessons.

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