David J. Garcia

No matter your usual musical preferences, I think you need to know John Denver. His music reminds us to be thankful to God for the gifts of music, nature, love and life.
“If I had a song that I could sing for you, I’d sing a song to make you feel this way”:

 If I may, I also [...]

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I, David J. Garcia, hereby resolve to make better use of the diverse media available to me to build relationships.
Specifically, in 2009:

I will post regularly in my blog, with a focus on unique, relevant content. I will also make an increased effort to comment on blogs I read.
I will further refine my RSS reading list and [...]

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Every year, the Boy Scouts in our area camp at Enchanted Rock, a huge, natural granite dome west of Austin.
For quite some time we’ve made this part of our family tradition–we’ve always had at least a few of us in the troop. Since it’s a church group, it’s easy and reasonable for my dad, myself [...]

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(Listen: http://davidjgarcia.com/blog/audio/Have_a_joyous_Christmas.mp3)
More than two-thousand years ago, a baby was born in humble circumstances. He grew up–first as a child, then as a young man. As an adult, he taught and blessed those around him. Real men, women and children, like you and me, saw him. They talked with him and received miracles at his kind [...]

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Tweet tweet.
I’ve finally bitten, and I’m now on Twitter.
I’ll use Twitter for microblog content over statuses. It’ll be like http://blog.davidjgarcia.com, but more frequent, diverse & condensed.
If you’re interested, you can follow me here: http://twitter.com/DavidJGarcia.

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For behold, I say unto you there be many things to come;
Our lives are like that, especially at Christmas time. There are so many things to do and think about. For those of you in school, finals make it an even more stressful time. But remember:
there is one thing which is of more importance than [...]

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If you read this blog for well-written, insightful content, come back Monday; this post is about me.
As I write this, I’m celebrating my 25th birthday, placing me squarely in the “quarterlife” demographic–that time when you’ve finished college, dreams are still big but more specific, and real life has kind of started, but not completely.
Now, I’m [...]

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Let there be joy to everyone this Christmas.

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If you’re like me, you have a well-developed ability to put things off if you don’t want to do them. I can form a fairly logic argument to avoid almost anything. And while procrastination usually has negative connotations, it can actually work to your advantage.
Now I’m not saying you should keep putting off what you [...]

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