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Flying with 3 Little Ones
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PHOTO:  Ole Miss Vaught Hemingway Stadium – 2016 - 10 years ago! ✨✨✨ NEW Blog post (https://thetatesinparis.com/year-5-reflections-2-ole-miss-a-sense-of-place-grad-gift/ - profile link👆) Ole Miss:  Year 5 Reflections

 “We have recently written about our oldest going to the US Naval Academy.  Personally, I wanted him to go to one of two universities:  Navy or Ole Miss.  And honestly, I often leaned Ole Miss. 

I love Ole Miss… Ole Miss, like for so many others, gave me a chance.  From the Chancellor’s Leadership Class to studying abroad in France, it opened the world to me & showed me how we can be lifelong learners and growing leaders. 

Ole Miss also beckons of home and my sense of place.  It’s what Willie Morris described in his wonderful memoir – this difference of being from somewhere or coming from the world at large.  He wrote: 

“I was talking with an Ole Miss student who had just returned from visiting a Mississippi friend at Harvard.  They went to a party in Cambridge and the young man from Ole Miss got into a conversation with a Harvard man. 

“Where are you from?” the Mississippian asked.

“What do you mean?”

“Well, where are you from?  Where did you go to high school?” 

The other man mentioned an Eastern prep school.
“But where did you grow up?  Where are your parents?”

“Well, my father is in Switzerland I think, and my mother is asleep in the next room.” 

The Ole Miss student then told me: “For the first time in my life, I understood that not all Americans are from somewhere.” 

There is a difference….”

Keep reading our blog (https://thetatesinparis.com)
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College Tour & back to Mississippi - Fall 2025.  US Naval Academy Blog post & Graduation gift links (profile link 👆https://thetatesinparis.com/year-5-reflections-1-us-naval-academy/)

#paris #autism #livingabroad #churchplanters #christianblogger
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We didn’t think we would follow our oldest to Annapolis .  Pic taken in Oct 2025.

New blog post (profile link👆): “…A new season beckons for our oldest- one that will test him and us in new and unexpected ways.  We are confident in the new friends, mentors, and leaders who will forge and shape Jack at the US Naval Academy and afterwards in the US Navy for his 5 years of active duty.  God has both made a way and grown our oldest in his time here.  We believe He will further equip him to be a man that understands, collaborates, and makes his own personal mark to both our nation and the world.  We will always be here for him wherever the winds and high seas take him.  Go Navy!“

Watch our Reels to catch up!
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Annapolis Oct 2025…. New post & Graduation gift links (profile link 👆https://thetatesinparis.com/year-5-reflections-1-us-naval-academy/)

#paris #autism #livingabroad #churchplanters #christianblogger
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October 2025 - Candidate Visit Weekend…. New post & Graduation gift links (profile link 👆https://thetatesinparis.com/year-5-reflections-1-us-naval-academy/)

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October 2025 - Let’s Go…. New post & Graduation gift links (profile link 👆https://thetatesinparis.com/year-5-reflections-1-us-naval-academy/)

#paris #autism #livingabroad #churchplanters #christianblogger
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New blog post + ways to give grad gift (profile link👆) Year 5 Reflections: US Naval Academy 

• Summer Seminar Debrief: June 2025

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Summer Seminar June 2025. New post & Graduation gift links on the blog (profile link 👆) #churchplanter #autism #livingabroad #christianblogger
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PHOTO:  Ole Miss Vaught Hemingway Stadium – 2016 - 10 years ago! ✨✨✨ NEW Blog post (https://thetatesinparis.com/year-5-reflections-2-ole-miss-a-sense-of-place-grad-gift/ - profile link👆) Ole Miss:  Year 5 Reflections

 “We have recently written about our oldest going to the US Naval Academy.  Personally, I wanted him to go to one of two universities:  Navy or Ole Miss.  And honestly, I often leaned Ole Miss. 

I love Ole Miss… Ole Miss, like for so many others, gave me a chance.  From the Chancellor’s Leadership Class to studying abroad in France, it opened the world to me & showed me how we can be lifelong learners and growing leaders. 

Ole Miss also beckons of home and my sense of place.  It’s what Willie Morris described in his wonderful memoir – this difference of being from somewhere or coming from the world at large.  He wrote: 

“I was talking with an Ole Miss student who had just returned from visiting a Mississippi friend at Harvard.  They went to a party in Cambridge and the young man from Ole Miss got into a conversation with a Harvard man. 

“Where are you from?” the Mississippian asked.

“What do you mean?”

“Well, where are you from?  Where did you go to high school?” 

The other man mentioned an Eastern prep school.
“But where did you grow up?  Where are your parents?”

“Well, my father is in Switzerland I think, and my mother is asleep in the next room.” 

The Ole Miss student then told me: “For the first time in my life, I understood that not all Americans are from somewhere.” 

There is a difference….”

Keep reading our blog (https://thetatesinparis.com)
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College Tour & back to Mississippi - Fall 2025.  US Naval Academy Blog post & Graduation gift links (profile link 👆https://thetatesinparis.com/year-5-reflections-1-us-naval-academy/)

#paris #autism #livingabroad #churchplanters #christianblogger
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We didn’t think we would follow our oldest to Annapolis .  Pic taken in Oct 2025.

New blog post (profile link👆): “…A new season beckons for our oldest- one that will test him and us in new and unexpected ways.  We are confident in the new friends, mentors, and leaders who will forge and shape Jack at the US Naval Academy and afterwards in the US Navy for his 5 years of active duty.  God has both made a way and grown our oldest in his time here.  We believe He will further equip him to be a man that understands, collaborates, and makes his own personal mark to both our nation and the world.  We will always be here for him wherever the winds and high seas take him.  Go Navy!“

Watch our Reels to catch up!
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Annapolis Oct 2025…. New post & Graduation gift links (profile link 👆https://thetatesinparis.com/year-5-reflections-1-us-naval-academy/)

#paris #autism #livingabroad #churchplanters #christianblogger
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October 2025 - Candidate Visit Weekend…. New post & Graduation gift links (profile link 👆https://thetatesinparis.com/year-5-reflections-1-us-naval-academy/)

#paris #autism #livingabroad #churchplanters #christianblogger
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October 2025 - Let’s Go…. New post & Graduation gift links (profile link 👆https://thetatesinparis.com/year-5-reflections-1-us-naval-academy/)

#paris #autism #livingabroad #churchplanters #christianblogger
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New blog post + ways to give grad gift (profile link👆) Year 5 Reflections: US Naval Academy 

• Summer Seminar Debrief: June 2025

 #paris #autism #livingabroad #churchplanters #christianblogger
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Summer Seminar June 2025. New post & Graduation gift links on the blog (profile link 👆) #churchplanter #autism #livingabroad #christianblogger
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