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Tales and Adventures of Morning Glories and Honeysuckle
Dear Reader: This is the first year I didn’t have two big barrels of morning glories…already climbing fence trellis… that I would buy each spring at Ace Hardware. (But then no one expected COVID...
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Splitting One’s Time Between Sleeping and Waking
Dear Reader: Recently…I was skimming through a short biographical “info” page (on an author) located at the back of the book. It was telling about the author’s hobbies and interests. Then, suddenly,...
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Feeling Down? Try Something New!
Dear Reader: My love of reading grew out of my uncertain childhood following my father’s death and my mother’s hand amputation… due to bone cancer. I just remember always hearing adults talk softly...
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Rich in the Every Day of Life
(Thoreau’s Cabin in the Woods…On Walden Pond-Artist-Don Barne) Dear Reader: My senior year in high school…I either took an extra elective course or perhaps signed up for some kind of club…but it was...
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“Did You Have Fun Growing Old?”
Dear Reader: I am presently reading a delightful novel by Susan Wiggs, one of my favorite summer go-to-authors. Her latest book, The Lost and Found Bookshop is perhaps my favorite. The story is about...
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“Don’t Worry…Be Happy!”
Dear Reader: Only, we humans, have the ambiguous “luxury” of worrying. Animals know, instinctively, that there is no security in life and thus live it moment to moment… with little thought to the...
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A “Gilded Lily”…Not Necessary But So Appreciated!
Dear Reader: I have heard the expression “Gilding the lily” but was never quite sure what it meant. I decided to research the expression and discovered that the eytymology of the phrase… has been...
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It’s Time for More “Moodling”!
Dear Reader: Don’t we (or at least) we know of… people who spend so much of their lives…talking about how ‘one day they are going to do this or that’ or “change their life…if they ever can find the...
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Understanding That “Nothing” is Something
Dear Reader: I was, admittedly, at one time the clutter queen. Everything around me was full of something…and most of those somethings were useless…just taking up space. I must have driven mother...
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Finding “Sacred” in the Ordinary
Dear Reader: Sometimes the ‘sacred’ among the ordinary is such a fixture in our lives we forget just how beautiful it really is… Case in point: When I first laid eyes on the ‘The old rugged (wooden)...
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Common Sense Camp
Dear Reader: I love reading about different ideas in “Spotlight on Kindness” that pops up on my iPhone every week. They have such wonderful stories and ideas…it restores my faith in humanity. I loved...
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What Makes It Hard…Your Life Mattered!
Dear Reader: In a story I was reading earlier in the week the main character had recently lost her mother in a tragic accident. She kept waiting for time to heal….but, unexpectedly, a memory of her...
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God Lives in an Unrestricted Time Zone
Dear Reader: When I came across this title banner…I had to laugh to myself. I might be in the cockpit as time is flying but there is definitely another pilot beside me watching me drive the plane...
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It’s the Short Stories that Define Us…Not the Life Novel
Dear Reader: Like so many writers before me…there comes a time in one’s life when thoughts turn to writing that great American novel. Realistically…those are far and few between….but I once had a...
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“If You Don’t Learn Something New Every day or Have a Good Laugh…Then Get...
Dear Reader: If you take time to think about it….more days than not…most people hear themselves say, something along the lines of, “Really? I didn’t know that?” I found myself thinking it yesterday...
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“Oh Lord…Prop Me Up in All My Leaning Places”
Dear Reader: Jeff stopped by yesterday to complete the job of getting my “leaning” “Fence of Dingle... standing upright and straight… like it once was…a long, long, time ago. He wanted to permanently...
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Facing the Storm
Dear Reader: As I am typing the blog today…it is early Monday afternoon (around 1) and the brunt of the tropical storm has yet to hit. We are experiencing a nice, soft, steady rain now…which would...
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Roll Out Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer
Dear Reader: So many musical artists, from Nat King Cole to Dean Martin, used to sing this nostalgic song…a remembrance of summer…the kind we reminisce about from childhood or youth. Don’t we all have...
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Something’s Just Around the Corner
Dear Reader: Haven’t you ever awakened and had a ‘funny’ feeling that something was brewing, something was ‘in the air’ …something was about to happen that would be quite different…but you didn’t know...
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I Can Hardly Remember When…And Now the Blog’s Turned Ten!
Chapel of Hope Stories. Com Dear Reader: I stopped and pinched myself before I started typing this particular post for today’s benchmark celebration…Ten years ago, on Saturday August 7, 2010, I wrote...
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