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De-“Booing” Day…Halloween Out…Thankfulness In
Dear Reader: The day after Halloween is always De-“Booing” Day. Over the years I have collected so many “Boo” items from friends and family that it takes quite awhile to replace “Boo” Halloween decor...
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It’s a Great Day to be Alive!
Dear Reader: The last two nights…Halloween and All Saint’s night…I have slept so soundly. It was 48 degrees when ‘Summerville’ woke up yesterday. Thursday night, as the cold front arrived following...
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Slow Down to Focus on Purpose…not Perfection
Dear Reader: I thought Honey’s clay turtle represents my thoughts on slowing down in the cutest way! I have so much fun changing flowers in it…enjoying the different attire of the creative turtle...
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Everything is Just the Way It Should Be…
Dear Reader: As I have been pointing out these past few blog posts…my garden seems to sense now that the difficult struggle to survive seasonal summer heat and drought has passed. The summer flowers...
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Looking for Old Acquaintances…by Their Titles
Dear Reader: I fell in love with this whimsical imaginative painting the minute I saw it pop up on-line…Oh what I would have given to have had a tree to go to like this (instead of the downright...
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Unexpected Encounters of Happiness
Dear Reader: What an unexpected and joyful day yesterday was..filled with surcies and God Winks! My friend K.C. and I planned a picnic on my back deck…but first (like “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”)...
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Saying Good-Bye to a Beloved Garden “Bench”mark
Dear Reader: Yesterday I confess I had a few moments of nostalgic sadness over the loss of my Ya Ya “bench” mark for the garden. The Ya’s gave me the bench for my birthday on September 24, 2012. It...
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To Listen Like a Wild Flower…
Dear Reader: A couple of years’ back we selected new words for the new year and many of you shared your selection with the rest of the readers. Each year I selected (and continue to select) the same...
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Burr! Baby It’s Cold Outside!
Dear Reader: Friday and last night the temperatures dropped into the mid-thirties…it is time to start a fire. Happiness is….watching a fire burning in my happy room! It is at the top of my ‘happy’...
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Pumpkins in Rows… for our Heroes and She-Roes
Dear Reader: Today is Veterans Day…as much an annual part of fall as Halloween and Thanksgiving. Actually if you stop and think about it… many veterans have experienced their spookiest and/or...
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The Short Story of the Acorn and the Pumpkin
* Yesterday I saw where there had been a “run” on this short anecdote published two years ago on September 25, 2016. I couldn’t remember the story so I re-read it and forgot how much I need to...
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The Fir Tree’s Lesson on the Busyness and Brevity of Life
Dear Reader: Burr! The cold front (that the weathermen have excitedly been predicting for several days) arrived! I drove Ann Graves to her radiation appointment yesterday morning and it was still...
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Discovering that Destinations Are Usually Just Starting Points
Dear Reader: A novel I recently finished told about an American girl who planned to visit France and see all the big tourist attractions but soon discovered that it wasn’t Paris with all its famous...
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The “Quiet Teachers” of Nature
Dear Reader: I read in an article that two hours of being out in nature (a week) does wonders for our bodies, minds, and hearts. I do try to get outside in the garden most days and actually use my...
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Surrendering Life…in Order to Live It!
Dear Reader: In my dreams I still visualize the world of my childhood. It always consisted of a big yellow sun, stars, mountains, birds, trees, seas, rainbows and flowers…always flowers everywhere. I...
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Cold, Wet, and Thoroughly Snuggly Lovely
Dear Reader: Since Luke came to help me Tuesday evening get all the plants inside before the first freeze… we have had cold, wet, windy weather…the kind that chills you down to the marrow of the bone...
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Lowcountry Falls are More Subtle than New England but Just as Amazing!
Dear Reader: When I turned into the neighborhood late yesterday afternoon I caught the magnificence of the waning sun hitting the trees… turning their leaves a subtle but shimmering beauty behind the...
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Remembering to Keep Our “Personal Clocks” Wound
Dear Reader: Today we think of Lewis Carroll as the wonderful author of Alice In Wonderland, as well as, a storyteller and artist. One recurring theme in Alice in Wonderland...is time and how it is...
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New Updates from My Past… Bringing Adventuresome Opportunities
(Scene from Isle of Man...one of my latest ancestral discoveries) Dear Reader: Yesterday I heard from Ancestry telling me that they had the latest updates on my personal genealogy. I was so excited...
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Experiencing an “Oneness” In God’s Universe
Dear Reader: I have never heard of a “piggy-back” epiphany but suddenly these days I am feeling it with all my senses….sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. *An”oneness” with everything in...
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