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“Wicked” Edisto
Dear Reader: About a week ago on Lowcountry Live the author of this book, Alexia Helsley, was talking about her book and all the research she had done to find fascinating tidbits of Edisto Island...
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Where We Are…Is Not Where We Are Going to Stay
Dear Reader: Don’t we sometimes hit a stage in life when we think we are permanently stuck and will never be able to move on? I remember one time when the children were all small and the family had …...
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“Good Morning Starshine”
Dear Reader: As soon as I saw this painting I immediately thought “Good Morning Starshine.” The vivid assortment of the varied colors of the leaves with the bright round sun welcoming us to another...
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Another Important Sight-the Mind
Dear Reader: Haven’t we all wanted to declutter our minds at one time or another? Especially those nights when we toss and turn as pictures of problems from the day, the past, or the potential future...
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Gratitude Turns What We Have Into Enough!
Dear Reader: The world was saddened to hear of the passing of Maya Angelou…many of our generation were touched by her ideas and unique prose styles…but even more importantly…her words. Her definition...
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A Life Built Around “Thank You’s”
Dear Reader: When I came across this (poster) message awhile back I remember stopping and thinking….”What an interesting concept“…and I immediately tried remembering what I did thank God for...
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Life is a Story…An Opportunity to Create the “Right” Kind of Memories
Dear Reader: I just started a light (but engrossing) summer read the other day and am already getting “lost” in another world with my new “best friends.” Soon they will become a distant memory as I...
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The World As Seen Through a Brick
Dear Reader: As I read the words in the poster above and thought back on my own life…it is true that God’s detours, including my diagnosis of “little c,” lead to something better than we could have...
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Inch by Inch…The Garden Song
Dear Reader: Sunday when I went out to see the garden after the luscious rain fell (finally) Saturday afternoon…the birds were singing, the skies were blues, low humidity…and the flowers were so...
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Guess What? Someday is today!
Dear Reader: As children and young adolescents…don’t we live in a world of “somedays?’ And rightly so….from poor little Cinderella, slaving away for her wicked stepmother and half-sisters,...
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Doing Something For Its Own Sake
Dear Reader: Being a product of a southern gal growing up in the fifties and sixties…I am just now realizing that a lot of good intentions and popular sayings of that period have stunted my...
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“How Nice!”
Dear Reader: What an “e’speci-ally”good time the Ya’s had at Edisto this time around…and it was, in large part, because we had a couple of “guests” come a’callin during our stay! We all remarked...
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Love Me Tender
Dear Reader: Don’t you love the word “tender“? It immediately brings to mind the Madonna and Child paintings or a mother holding her first newborn and stroking it so tenderly…. Tender means “showing...
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Stop “Chewing the Cud” and Move on…
Dear Reader: Aren’t we all guilty of this sometimes? We read too much meaning into a simple remark someone makes or we over-analyze a simple assignment. Why do we “ruminate” over information that we...
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“One Morning”
Dear Reader: Isn’t it quite amazing that every single morning of our lives we have the opportunity to change the world by simply helping one other person during the day? How powerful is that….a smile,...
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We Are Our Father’s Children…
Dear Reader: I know it is a little early for a Father’s Day message…but in a spiritual sense…isn’t every day our Father’s day…after all He created the world in which we live….day by day…moment by...
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Dreams and Feelings
Dear Reader: Anne gave me this adorable little book about big dreams, imagination, and expressed feelings. She knows me well. I remember the wonderful Rene Harris looking at me one day with a...
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Just Not Feeling It…
Dear Reader: I remember asking the children to do this or that chore while they were in the trying teen years….and getting non-verbal responses with facial expressions mimicking… “I’m just not...
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The Choice…Touching Lives
Dear Reader: Every year when my eighth grade class studied the Holocaust…we either had speakers come in or the class attended a Holocaust Exhibit or discussion in Charleston. After attending these...
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The Hearth Within Us
Dear Reader: In three more days we are off….to the “West of Ireland”…..Dingle, Ballyvaughn, and Galway…with everything in between up for grabs…as time allows! According to John O’Donohue (Irish...
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