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The Gator Who ” Saved” Independence Day
Dear Reader: July 4, 2022, will always go down in family history as the holiday “that wasn’t” but yet the celebration of laughter… “that was! “ Mandy and John decided to go all out for the Fourth this...
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Not Ready for Winter Yet…
Dear Reader: I remember several years ago Anne and I taught a Sunday School class on the importance of telling our personal stories as followers of faith and the power of sharing our life stories with...
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The Guardian Angel Who Stirred the Pot of Happiness
Dear Reader: While watching a cooking show recently, I noticed a whimsical guardian angel kitchen spoon holder that took me back in time to mother’s kitchen in the duplex in Fayetteville. I remember...
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A God Wink and a Love Note
Dear Reader: Yesterday was a busy day… lots of errands and preparations for picking up and organizing items for distribution. And suddenly , smack dab in the middle of it all… I got the most...
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Ever Considered Your Home as ” Eden”… Paradise?
Dear Reader: Emily Dickinson once wrote ” Home is the definition of God.” She went on to say ” Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in everyday.” In other words… is spending time at home picking...
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The ” Potato Chip Kid” Rides On in Memories
Dear Reader: Over the weekend, which I spent in Mt Pleasant, I heard from one of my favorite cousins… Charles! As the oldest cousin, in our Laurens gang of cousins… he was my idol! Even before my...
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The ” Delicious Miss Brown” Serves Out History … Along with her Amazing Dishes
Kardea Brown filming her Edisto Island Ancestral Cuisine for HGTV Dear Reader: On a recent episode of Kardea Brown’s cooking show ( filmed on Edisto Island) she was planning a family gathering to be...
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Heart and Soul Memories
Dear Reader: Did you know that three of our five senses take us back …faster …down our personal memory lanes? They are sound, taste, and smell. In fact this post today is a testimony to this...
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Progression… Not Perfection
Dear Reader: I have a personal mantra I silently and mentally entertain each morning… “Lord, let me be a better person today than I was yesterday. ” I have accepted my imperfections and been a Brene...
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Learning to Listen Through Nature
Dear Reader: It wasn’t until the fall of 2013 that I remembered how to listen again with plants as my teachers… it was the spring my backyard garden evolved from a dream to reality. By that fall I...
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Lightening Our Lives
Dear Reader: Over the years… haven’t we all agreed that lightening and clearing out excessive junk, we have accumulated over time, produces such a freeing feeling … we are out of the jail we built...
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Change Brings Revelation
Dear Reader: Yesterday was a dot to dot day… where similar thoughts from different programs blended into the same message. We are all connected… We are all connected… We are all connected. It started...
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Open and Closed Books… Which Are You?
Dear Reader: John Kieran once wrote reflectively ” I am part of all I have read.” I recognize this statement almost every day of my life. If we were lucky enough to be read to… growing up… don’t we...
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Success or Satisfaction
Dear Reader: The more I thought about this saying… the more I liked it. If we leave this earth still wondering what people will think of us after we are gone and even worrying about it… I think sadly...
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Building the Bridge Between Knowledge and Wisdom
Dear Reader: Knowledge is an accumulation of facts and learned experiences we absorb throughout our life. Wisdom is knowing when to apply our knowledge to a situation and when to save it for a later...
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Everything and Everyone We Have Loved Becomes a Part of Us
Dear Reader: Today I am driving to Laurens… my family’s ancestral home town and a place that holds a myriad of emotions… mostly good but also a reminder of the loss of loved ones who went before… who...
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” There’s a Path to Every Destination “
Dear Reader: Before I start the post today… I have to admit what I just did by mistake… instead of writing ” Dear Reader” I wrote ” Dear Santa.” Aren’t there some childhood memories so ingrained in...
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True ” Abiding”…Vertically and Laterally
Dear Reader: There is no doubt in my mind that all Sherry’s loved ones, family and friends, certainly understand Pooh’s comment: ” If you weren’t you, then we’d all be a bit less we.” As Rev. Dr....
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A ” Forty Winks” Friday
Dear Reader: Aren’t we all guilty sometimes of pushing ourselves to the point of complete exhaustion… without even being consciously aware of doing so… since each separate situation leading up the...
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Harmony, Balance, Hospitality, and Happiness… Sound good? Get an Anthurium!
Dear Reader: The plant ( anthurium) is composed of two Greek words ” anthos” -flower and ” oura” flowering tail. Today there are over 1000 different types of anthuriums. You might have seen pictures...
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