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” Do You Believe in Magic?”
Dear Reader: In 1965 The Loving’ Spoonful had a top hit with their number one chart billboard song… ” Do you believe in Magic?” If you can still remember the first refrain … it added ” like in a young...
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Beginnings are Beautiful-Middles and Endings Too…
Catching Fireflies-Summer is Here! Dear Reader: Yesterday I headed over to Mt Pleasant with a stop-over on Daniel Island to visit Ben. Everything at school is winding down… next Tuesday is graduation...
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Time is Never Wasted Spent with Grandchildren …
Dear Reader: For those of you who live in the Summerville area … you have already guessed that there was no Maypole Dance at James B Edwards Elementary yesterday. And the outdoor picnic for the...
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Limitless Potential
View of the Cosmic Web Dear Reader: Lately with all the shortages in our lives, baby formula, affordable gas and groceries, construction needs… the list could go on.. the term ” limitless” is more...
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Why Memorial Day in May?
Dear Reader: Last Thursday as I left Daniel Island after visiting Ben… the roads leading in and off the island were lined with American flags in preparation for Memorial Day. Thanks to the island’s...
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The Story Behind the ” Graduation Flower”
Dear Reader: Hopefully, as many of you are reading this post today… I am watching Eva Cate dance the Maypole Dance and then receive her diploma at the fifth grade graduation ceremonies. Needless to...
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” Time is Funny like that…it Expands and Contracts”…
Dear Reader: This will be a short post today because I had a l-o-n-g day yesterday at Eva Cate’s Graduation Day Ceremony . Remember I told you I was packing a lot of Kleenex for the tears I knew I...
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A Dingle Folk Tale
Dear Reader: Memorial Day… Kaitlyn and Tommy gave me a beautiful gemstone bracelet from Ireland! I haven’t taken it off since… so special! But just as memorable was this compilation of Irish folk...
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The Paradox of Love and War
Dear Reader: If you were like me… I spent a bulk of time changing television stations yesterday between the happy upbeat Queen’s Jubilee and the sad but determined Olena Zelensky-wife of Ukrainian...
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Boiled Peanuts, Fascinators, Gardenias, and Gullah Memories…
Dear Reader: Yesterday… 100 Rainbow Road, felt like a train station where friends, surprise gifts, and unexpected memories popped up to turn an ordinary day into an extraordinary one! It started with...
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” We’ll See”…
Dear Reader: Some of you are already aware that after returning home from their ( Tommy and Kaitlyn) ” Covid” fifth wedding anniversary in Ireland… there was a prolonged respite as it took Tommy a...
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The Queen and the Prime Minister
Dear Reader: When Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 she was excited and terrified simultaneously of her first weekly meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. As a youth...
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When Dawn and Bread Breaks….
Dear Reader: Monday morning I set my mobile phone timer to go off at 6 am so I could check to see if my post ( I had written the evening before) had published… for some crazy reason when I set the...
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When Life Gets Hard… Congratulations! You’re Doing it Right
Dear Reader: When things get tough and life appears to go wrong, don’t we have a tendency to think something is the matter with us… we must be doing something wrong? Another example of why we...
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Want to Improve Your Day… Try Wordplay
Dear Reader: In the title picture ( from Alice Through the Looking Glass) Alice and Humpty are discussing play-on-word games. Alice remarks: ” The question is, whether you make words mean so many...
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Remembering Who We Always Wanted to Be
Dear Reader: The subject of making time for contemplation in our daily lives continuously reappears in my posts as I grow older. Overall I am a ” people person” and love social situations, especially...
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Comedic Irony
Dear Reader: Like many other people… O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi has always been one of my favorite Christmas stories-the kind that you must read or hear, once again, or something seems missing...
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The Leading First Lady Role Model
Dear Reader: Life Magazine, just recently, published a special edition on our First Ladies and their contributions during their presence in the White House. Leading the last 2014 poll , hands down,...
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Bread Crumbs and Memories Show Us the Path Home
Dear Reader: Have you ever considered that the symbolism of personal paths (that take us back to God’s Home) just doesn’t apply to human ” everyone’s ” but to everything God created? All we have to do...
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” How Hot Is It?”
Dear Reader: Yesterday morning I was up and out at six am talking to my gardens… warning the flowers it was going to be a hot one… conserve their water supply and I would see them later in the...
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