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Stranger than Fiction…
Dear Reader: When I added this tin sign to my window sill overlooking my side garden recently ( with one of my favorite quotes about gardens on it) ” And into the garden I go… to LOSE MY MIND and find...
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The Old Farmers Almanac
Dear Reader: When I got back from the Turners – yesterday afternoon-celebrating Mandy’s birthday …I checked the mail and there was a copy of the history behind the creation of the Old Farmers Almanac...
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Final Life Exam-Were You an Oxygen-taker or Giver?
Dear Reader: What if… we all could ( invisibly ) attend our own funeral and watch the count of hands from every single person we met in life vote on if we 1) exhaled warmth, selfless giving, and...
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Falling for Pumpkins and Scary Stories
Dear Reader: Yesterday was the day I dragged bags of pumpkins out to start decorating for my favorite season . Since I am leaving shortly to spend the night with Tommy and Kaitlyn-watching the first...
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Life Will Find A Way…
Dear Reader: Yesterday morning I woke up on the adorable B&B side of Tommy and Kaitlyn’s duplex…. the sun was shining through the trees-the skies were a brilliant blue with white puffy clouds...
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Why Gathering is so Important…
Dear Reader: When I started getting ” Fall Ready” visually Tuesday afternoon ( upon my return from Tommy’s and Kaitlyn’s) -decorating my Happy Room was my first ” to do” item. Normally I exchange...
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The Magic of a Beautiful Word …
Dear Reader: I didn’t make a grammatical error in the title-leaving out the ” l” in “world”- instead I was surprised by a magical ” word.” It all started while I was “babysitting” my fifth moonflower...
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Gathering Thoughts and Memories…
Dear Reader: Like so many others… memories growing up in the ” Elizabethan II” years have come pouring back these past couple of days since Queen Elizabeth’s passing Thursday. My earliest memory is a...
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A Time to Burst Out Laughing…
Dear Reader: Yesterday when I saw a Fed Ex package on my porch… upon my return from the dreaded grocery store weekly run… I couldn’t remember what I ordered-wasn’t expecting anything??? When I first...
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” I Only Have Eyes for You”
Dear Reader: For years now I have shared historical stories with you that I once shared with my eighth grade students in American History. My first and favorite unit was the Presidential unit. I told...
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The Little Pumpkin that Could…
Dear Reader: Garth Brooks ( on Kelly Clarkson’s ) new season kick-off show yesterday -made this simple but profound statement-“You can’t have a top without a bottom. ” For every high ” top” in our...
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” And Suddenly Summer Collapsed into Fall…”
Dear Reader: Hopefully, as many of you are reading today’s post… I am experiencing ( or have already experienced) the fresh feel of fall!) Yesterday the local weatherman was excited about experiencing...
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Better Late Than Never…
Dear Reader: Remember Tuesday when I mentioned that I hoped I-26 and 526 would not be backed up causing delays in getting to Mt Pleasant in time for the Grandparents early morning recognition and ”...
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Penetrating the Barriers of Magic to Discover Realism
Dear Reader: One of my favorite aspects of reading is coming across passages that stop me in my tracks and force me to reread them again… more slowly the second time around… while my mind plays games...
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” The Honeybees were making Honey in my Heart”
A South African Designer decided to ” gift” his wife with a heart made of honeycomb. He called on the help of some Cape honey bees and added a design of the heart with a couple of swirls to guide...
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Call Off The Search Party…
Dear Reader: How many times have we heard a parent sigh and admit that her son and/ daughter just graduated from college… and now they are traveling around to ” find themselves.” Of course there is...
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Our Heart is Known by the Path We Walk…
Dear Reader: When I saw this title passage… it made me pause and contemplate all the trodden and down trodden paths I have been on this past week! Twice I have tried to get to Mt Pleasant and Daniel...
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A Special Charleston Connection to the Coronation
The earliest first permanent English settlement in the Carolinas was Charles Town named in honor of King Charles II -founded in 1670 Dear Reader: One of my favorite memories after Brooke and I moved...
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Fortitude… Built Brick by Brick
In the latest Magnolia Fall 2022 Journal… the title read The Fortitude We Gain Along the Way. In one of many diverse articles centering around the word ” fortitude” the author admitted that she found...
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It’s Falling… It’s Falling… Fall fell!
Dear Reader: Fall officially arrives tonight around 9:00. In the Lowcountry – summer has added one more ” heat” victory today…making fall wait another 24 hours – Fall Equinox or not. But by Friday...
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