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Celebrate Everything!
Dear Reader: I went on one of my favorite artist’s blog sites recently, and thought (immediately) that Kelly Roberts and I must be “soul sisters.” She makes my “wild and crazy” Happy Room look tame...
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Mystery and Faith…
Dear Reader: Saturday morning (following the freeze Friday night) sunlight, filtering through the windows, woke me from my sleep. It was round 7:00 and the sun was just coming up. For me this is the...
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The Courage to Change and Thrive in “Open Spaces”
Hold open space Dear Reader: I, purposely, chose this hermit crab drawing to start the blog because a favorite fellow blogger of mine, who has MS, just recently lost the last bit of strength in both...
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Half Full…Half Empty
Dear Reader: As I returned to Summerville yesterday afternoon…I suddenly had an urge for a lemonade on such a beautiful, warm day…and pulled into the McDonalds on Main Street. It wasn’t until later,...
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Tripping Over Stories…
Dear Reader: During a question and answer period one day Madeleine L’Engle (popular children and adult author) was asked a question from one of the students in the audience. “How do you keep coming up...
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Still “Barrowing” Ahead…
Dear Reader: We have all heard the expression: “Still waters run deep” and we think that this is what is going on with our baby. Mollie and I are running around like crazy women to keep our minds off...
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Always Remember… You Are Loved
Dear Reader: In a perfect world…every baby should arrive with banners whipping in the breeze, balloons bearing personal inscriptions and well wishes, thousands of people waiting outside the...
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Avoiding “Life Paralysis”– The Pitfalls of Perfectionism
Dear Reader: You might remember that I got this angel painting from Ernest Lee, a.k.a “Chicken Man” while we (Ya’s) were getting him to do a personalized painting for Jackson’s birthday last fall. Mr....
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Did You Ask?
Dear Reader: I have always been an “asker” as far back as elementary school…much to the annoyance of one particular fourth grade teacher-Mrs. Persons. (As a nine-year old child I figured she had an...
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The “Afterglows” of Life
Dear Reader: Haven’t we all experienced watching the “afterglow” of a sun setting? The sun has disappeared below our visual horizon but a strip (of the most beautiful colors) remains behind bearing a...
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God Resides in the Now…
Let me interrupt this blog reading for a very important announcement: Which way did you vote? *** The baby is a : BOY! weighing in at 9 pounds 13 ounces and 22 1/4 inches…a BIG little brother for...
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The Choice to Grow
Dear Reader: I have had people ask me what I have learned from having a garden these past two years (for the first time in my life) and I can sum it up in two words: patience and surprise! * Another...
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Un-“Laching” the Key to Our Hearts
Dear Reader: I arrived home around 4:30 yesterday afternoon (following a three-day “tilt-a-twirl” tornado)… and my head is still spinning in happiness. Even now…parts of the last three days are...
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Make the World a Better Place…
Dear Reader: As I sat rocking little Lach Thursday…I had time to dream the dreams of one generation to the next…and the next… imagining what his life will be like. Every loved one’s hope for the...
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Reflecting in the Garden on an Early Spring Day
Dear Reader: Spring is officially here and somehow I always feel that if it is “official”…(the real deal…the equinox…) then the weather has to start behaving itself and stop its unpredictability and...
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“And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
Dear Reader: I just recently discovered a quite interesting story about the Beatles and one of the last songs written by them in the album Abbey Lane called “The End.” The quote in the title of this...
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Stars in Your Eyes…
Dear Reader: Sometimes… how I arrive at the “thought for the day’ in my daily blogs… is a combination of seemingly unrelated incidences that finally jolt my memories and produce an idea for the blog....
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Musings and Imaginings on Life
Dear Reader: I find that in this stage of life my imagination has been re-born. It isn’t that it ever truly disappeared…I have always loved creativity…it is just that it had to take a back seat to the...
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The “Green” of Spring or Fifty Shades of Green
Dear Reader: Within a two foot radius in my garden…there are three different shades of green growing stronger every day…stemming from dark to light to yellow-green…all strikingly beautiful. I...
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In all “Truthiness”… I am a Happy Noob! Woot!
Dear Reader: After receiving that wonderful gift from Jo and Colby Wednesday about the 100th anniversary of Webster dictionary… with the reproduction of a page from Noah Webster’s very first...
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