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@mrshoye.bsky.social
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Retired Catholic High School Teacher. Avid Reader. College Sports Fan. Go Irish! World Traveler. I Don't Do Well With Boredom, So I've Decided Everything Is Interesting.

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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Contemplating just throwing them down the stairs!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Steep Dutch stairs (basically a ladder) up to our room in the windmill, so we've been warned to go down backwards, which will be a hoot with a suitcase!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Hotel" for the next two nights in Arkel, Netherlands. Yes, we're sleeping in a windmill because why not.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Beautiful day outside of Amsterdam!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh yes lady make me a fresh warm stroopwafel! Yum Yum Yum!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Amsterdam we visited the St. Nicholas Cathedral and The Anne Frank House and Museum. The thing that moved me the most was seeing the original lines marking Anne and her sister's height on the wall during the time they were in hiding. Such a normal thing in a barbaric time.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Day Two in Amsterdam: Our Lord in the Attic Museum. In the 1660's in the Netherlands, you could be Catholic, but only inside your house, so church houses were built. This one was the third floor in a wealthy canal house.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good morning, Amsterdam!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Starting today, this is my song for the next year! youtu.be/wUDRIC5RSX4?...
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The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four (Official Video)
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Went to The Astro last night to hear Jefferson Starship, Pure Prairie League, Firefall, and Atlanta Rhythm Section. Good jams!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I actually live in Nebraska, and um, no.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW: For 25 years, the memory of 9/11 has been sanitized to leave out the 200 who jumped, partly from a Christian fear that jumping was suicide. The Catholic Church does not teach that. Gwendolyn Briley, the Falling Man’s sister, said it best: “They were falling into the arms of God.”
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“They Were Falling Into the Arms of God” — A Catholic Defense of the 9/11 Jumpers
At least 200 people jumped from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and America agreed to look away. A Church that hangs the crucifixion over every altar has no business sanitizing that morning.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This documentary about one photograph on 9/11 haunts me. youtu.be/PJKM3lfZMlw?...
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Those students are now 39. Thank you to all those young people for their compassion that day.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just before lunch, the phone rang in my classroom. It was my husband. All civilians had been told to evacuate the Base. It took hours. I couldn't have a private moment because I had a room full of 14 yr olds, but I will never forget their names and faces as I cried with relief.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I began to panic. I ran across campus to the school secretary and asked her to put the call straight through to my classroom should my husband call. Meanwhile, I had to keep my classes full of high school freshmen calm. We prayed and waited for whatever was to follow.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On 9/11, I was teaching high school English at a Catholic school in California. My husband's work had taken him on 9/10 to a Navy base on the east coast, and he was preparing to go out to sea. After the Pentagon was hit, I was convinced they were going down the coast hitting valuable targets. 1/4
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Gaaaah, what's the deal with the spiders in my garden this year. I'm going for the broom. Hold my beer.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Man, this article just about did me in. 9/11 and the Annunciation shooting tested her, but she refuses to be afraid | National Catholic Reporter share.google/LlkZHYXSEyzW...
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9/11 and the Annunciation shooting tested her, but she refuses to be afraid
Martha Burnett Pettee's brother died in the Flight 93 attack, and her son survived the Minneapolis shooting. "What's in my prayers every single day is, 'your will be done,' " she said. "I can't predic...
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Sophia Petrillo's 'Good One' Laugh
ALT: Sophia Petrillo's 'Good One' Laugh
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Oh hell no. Not touching that thing! Thanks for the identification though!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This beast has built a web the size of an oven door across the slider. It's the first full day of college football, and I'm wound up, so I'm going to fight it and win. Hold my beer.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Great couple days in Denver including seeing John Fogarty at Red Rocks. That guy is still rocking it at 80!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Good job, Omaha! religionnews.com/2026/08/27/a...
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As tensions test interfaith ties, Omaha’s experiment with three-faith campus marks 20 years
(RNS) — ‘The challenge is the actual work, the actual relationship, navigating these geopolitical pieces, without having to lose hope,’ said Karim Khayati, the president of the mosque on campus.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This church sits in a rather wealthy neighborhood of Chicago, and I’m reminded of John Chrysostom’s words: "If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice."
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminds me of this Dorothea Lange photograph (California, 1939).
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Sometimes dogs bark at the wind.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is lovely…. #BookSky
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Please read..... #BookSky
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@padresj.bsky.social Happy Feast Day, Father!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Happy Feast Day, Brother!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Went to Mass this morning at Sacred Heart in Cape Town.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The original dive post didn't show up, so here's a recap: we went shark cage diving off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. It was pretty awesome!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Dude, that's not a squirrel. It's a dassie.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Went paragliding over Cape Town this morning. It was awesome!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The squirrels in this city are known as The Cape Town Gangsters (great band name), but today we encountered a host of South African critters.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Had a 10 hour day exploring the bays, coves, and beaches near Cape Town.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We had glorious weather for our afternoon cable car trip to the top of Table Mountain, which overlooks Cape Town.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Visited Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town this morning and learned of the prison island's history since the 1600's. Nelson Mandela was the most known inmate.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Had a great walking tour of Cape Town this afternoon.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Good eats in South Africa: Ostrich, Kudu, and Springbok. Yum!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
More from the dive this morning.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Today we just goofed around Cape Town. Went to Green Market Square to shop, then spent time at the District Six Museum, and walked around St. Mary's Cathedral (couldn't go in because it’s under renovation).
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
We have arrived!
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird." published on this day in 1960
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Twenty-nine years ago today! Off for another adventure in the world. See you way south of the equator in Cape Town, South Africa!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/07/2026
RESPECT Every politician should be doing this. Mayor Coffman has spent every Friday night since February sleeping at Aurora, Colorado’s homeless center, serving breakfast in the morning, and learning firsthand what works and what doesn’t.
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It was beautiful!
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Superpowers Activated @mrshoye.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Congratulations, Father! You are among our many blessings!
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