As some of you already know, I grew up in rural Spotsylvania County, Virginia and sometimes my brothers and I were blessed during the Holiday Season to get a handful of hard candy and a few shelled nuts as gifts, which were presented to us in a brown lunch bag with an occasional apple or an orange on Christmas morning.
Still to this day, hazelnuts are my favorite Holiday nuts, and I was very blessed this year with fresh roasted hazelnuts from my dear friend Karen and raw hazelnuts from my daughter Randie. No, it doesn’t take much to make me happy, and this Holiday Season was extra special because I was given something that touched a deeper part of me.
Yep, that’s me, the country boy from Spotsylvania County who loves hazelnuts and life’s simple things. Have a Wonderful 2015 Everyone! – Randolph Randy Camp
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I hope that everyone has a prosperous new year in 2015. If you want that desk job with that decent salary then envision yourself sitting there talking on the phone or typing that big important executive memo. If you’re a student who had struggled academically during the fall semester then envision the A or B for the upcoming spring semester. And for the homeless couple who’ve been sleeping in flop houses and the city mission for the past few months just imagine yourselves dangling the keys to your new apartment. Your goals and dreams can be realized, just envision it! Happy New Year Everybody! – Randolph Randy Camp
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One of the hardest things to do in this world is trying to stay positive while negativity is all around you. As we approach the new year, I will try my best to keep a positive outlook on life, in spite of all the daily headlines and lead stories on the TV evening news that, too often, focuses on the dark side of humans. No, it’s not easy to maintain a positive attitude, especially when the media continually feeds us negative junk every few minutes.
A mental technique in which I’ve been using for quite awhile now is to think about those positive stories that highlights the human spirit but rarely makes the news. I truly believe that there are certainly more positive people in this world than negative ones, and that for every negative story which makes the news there are plenty of positive stories that goes unnoticed. So therefore, every time I hear a negative news story I try to think about stories such as the girl who goes to the soup kitchen to eat just so that her mother has enough food at home to feed the rest of the kids.
No, it’s definitely not easy but I hope that all of you will stay positive, or at least, give it your best shot as we go forward into the new year 2015. – Randolph Randy Camp
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