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Knowing When to Unplug… Yourself
” Almost everything will work again…if you unplug it for a few minutes … this includes you! “ Dear Reader: As far back as my high school ( required) typing class …I was taught to unplug my machine (...
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The Power of a Lone Leaf…
Dear Reader: Sunshine is our best medicine! Laurie David shared a beautiful experience with one lone leaf that miraculously appeared out of no where… doesn’t nature bring us such amazing light that...
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Looking Out My Window
The brevity and longevity of leaves! God provides both! Live Oak leaves will be a challenge in every season of each year! Look for the wide diversity of every leaf and flower and smile for each ! Some...
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Hooks or Crooks … The Importance of Hanging Baskets…
A long History Dear Reader: When I was moving ” Big Red and Little Big Red” to my new home I moved planter hooks and later realized how important it is to buy heavy iron stakes or your hanging basket...
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The Power of Listening over Talking… in Every Season…
Dear Reader: Isn’t it amazing how quickly we begin to relate to new schedules in our lives? And once my day starts it gets busier throughout the day… I finally figured out that if I don’t start with...
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Rejoining the life of the Love of Living and finding it More Precious than Ever!
Flowers and Gardener Pals bring me Such Joy!!! Dear Reader: Susan Swicegood came over yesterday … we went out to eat together… Susan ordered a cocktail — so beautiful she said she was dedicating it to...
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It’s FINALLY HERE! RABBIT! RABBIT! THE FIRST DAY of MARCH!
GOOD LUCK!!! Dear Reader: It is hard to believe that March 1 has arrived today and who doesn’t want to be lucky? The luck of the Irish being recognized on March 17! So between starting with...
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” But What If?…
Plato’s First Story on the Different Perceptions of Our Lives-the CAVE Dear Reader: I have the most wonderful social worker who visits me , if not every week, about every two … As we were exchanging...
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MARCH-Loaded with Rabbits , ” Rabbits, Rabbit” St Patrick’s Day, Birthdays...
Dear Reader! From the first day of the month until the last … there is no way to spread out enough baskets to accumulate all the March Celebrations…. March is one of childhoods’ favorite months of...
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March Shows More Happenings than Any Other Month …Laurie David Shared her...
I could not narrow it down anymore -Laurie ‘s is ” The First of Octember” ( But I do love the Sneetches! ) March and Dr Seus/ ‘s history and stories is much adored by students everywhere at the...
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Turkey… John’s left for Turkey for an international company meeting…
John left last Friday and will return this Friday while Mandy is holding down the fort! Such is life until then … April’s 27’s ( Eva Cate’s birthday!!! Location ( still undecided) Light sneaking in...
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It Takes every Race and Gender to Remind us of Our Place in our country’s...
Lachlan our St Patrick’s Day Birthday Boy Eva Cate loved acting out a strong female character from history every year! And Black February with new events in memorial! yum ba ya ( Arise and come to God)
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The Longevity of Neighbors Forever… Bonded by My Beautiful Pear Tree
Vickie exclaims the newest beauty in my yard The Old Pear Tree- doesn’t last long but ” Oh the beauty” ” will live in memoriam ! And with Susan and Butch’s help ( Butch dropped by yesterday when he...
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The Signs of love encompass Us
Butch, Susan’s husband, came over yesterday and added planted lantern lights in by himself … so beautiful when the two turned-on after it got dark-Butch is amazing! Anne remembered taking Brooke’s...
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Family can help workouts increase
Walsh encouraging me to push harder on my workouts. When family cheers me on, there are certainly better results! One doesn’t realize how competitive one is until their grown son, Walsh, is...
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When in Rome do as the Romans Do
We must adjust to our surroundings Dear reader, I have learned the hard way that we can’t do things in life that suit us as they always have without change. We must adjust to our new surroundings. I...
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Mixed Feelings… Slow to Fast…
Pop-Up Card! Just like life! Dear Reader: Yesterday Sunday was a metaphor of a mixed bag of feeling surprises- from gifts of face -cleanings. Kaitlyn arrived Saturday and offered me a gift of face...
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Love, kindness on a Monday Filled with family…Happiness is…being “familied”!
Dear Chapel of Hope faithful reader. These past few days have been quite a struggle but each and every time I fight through it … I feel God’s love and realize that embedded throughout it is my...
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“Life is a teeter-totter”… up and down and all around …
Isn’t it crazy how an old childhood toy can pull us back to what makes us happy in life… a simple teeter-totter All the stages of life never leave their importance in our lives… our building blocks in...
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