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A Visual Feast of Warmth and Sunlight…
Dear Reader: Haven’t Monday and Tuesday been ‘picture-perfect’ examples of southern winter days? The sun has been out with a bone-marrow warmth to it…a great day for sitting on the deck and/or front...
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It’s a ‘Taradiddle’ Thursday!
Dear Reader: I decided on the coldest day this year, in the “dead” of winter- we needed some warm “live” laughter! And who better to bring this to us than the late “Miss” Effie Wilder (Fran Townsend’s...
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” The Dying Year Was So Beautiful”…
The first week in October last year…I took three really big baskets of mums around to all my girls…Mandy, Mollie, and Kaitlyn. The baskets of flowers were gargantuan ….and filled with too many blooms...
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Wake Up! A Day of Wonder Awaits…
Dear Reader: What is it about traveling to a new environment that keeps us in a state of anticipation and excitement? The whole time I was in Ireland I felt like a child on Christmas morning. I...
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Naturally You…Naturally Me
Dear Reader: Buddha said, “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” Do you remember this flower basket from last Easter when I bought it?…It stayed on...
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A Band-Aid of Flowers for the Soul
Dear Reader: The third amaryllis bloomed yesterday on a cloudy Sunday morning. It brought sunshine into an (otherwise) rather gloomy, shadowy surrounding…it “restored my soul”…”my cup runneth over.”...
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I Wonder as I Winter…
Dear Reader: One rarely hears “winter” used outside of a noun…especially as a verb. When we do…it usually has to do with wealthy “migratory” families and migratory animals…as in these samples: Henry...
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A Rose of Peace…
Dear Reader: I enjoyed the rainy Monday to catch up on some reading…and once I did I started skimming through the Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul book. I enjoy the short stories about so many...
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Feeling a Little Unsettled? Good!
Dear Reader: Lately on the local weather reports…I have heard the term “unsettled” ad nauseum. I feel like yelling back at the television “Enough of this unsettled weather….Get settled… and bring the...
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On the Sunny Side of the Street…
Dear Reader: I sincerely hope that we all wake up to sun today…as the weathermen (women) have promised…and we can actually walk on the real sunny side of the street. When Anne and I met at Oscars...
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Catching Up with the Past…
Dear Reader: It was time to “clean house” and Saturdays are notorious for just these types of chores…except in this case…”cleaning house” was my blog format. On the right hand column of the blog…were...
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THE DAY SCHEHERAZADE WENT DOWN….
Dear Reader: What a day May 29, 2013 was…a day that I honestly didn’t know would ever come to fruition! It was the day I told the 1002nd blog story to beat the famed Scheherazade and her 1001 stories...
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Stop…Rest…Reflect
Dear Reader: I remember the first time before entering St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope…stopping to read the scripture outside the entrance (one of my favorite verses…and as I recall, Pap, yours too.) It was...
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“Each Child You Encounter is a Divine Appointment”
Dear Reader: When I taught middle school and would tell someone what I did for a living…usually a look of sheer horror would cross their face…middle school! Are you crazy! The worst age possible!...
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Turning Negatives into Positive Joys
Dear Reader: Isn’t this picture beautiful? It almost looks like a negative with light shining through it. Last Sunday evening Walsh and Mollie had the family over for a get-together. It has been...
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“Surcie”…A Gift for No Apparent Reason…but Love
Dear Reader: Is there anything better than getting a “surcie” in the mail? If any of you are asking….’What in the world is a surcie you must have moved into the lowcountry area recently… and not lived...
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Create Beauty…Restore Your Soul
Dear Reader: Alice Walker once said: “Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you...
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Me and Myself…
Dear Reader: It is Saturday and John is returning home today…my son-in-law is such a good husband and daddy…he has missed his little family and is ready to get home to some hugs...
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Seeking the Memory of Who We Were…
Dear Reader: When I returned home yesterday afternoon from my four-day stay with Mandy and the children…the sun was finally breaking through the clouds and in spite of groceries in the back of the...
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Gloriously Impossible…
Dear Reader: Hope is alive and well! I was watering the plants on the front porch yesterday afternoon…in the warm, delightful sun’s rays and I spotted something on the tip of the lone stem standing...
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