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A Smiling God Wink…Happy Sixth Anniversary!
Dear Reader: I can’t believe that it has been six years since I (with trembling fingers) touched the keyboard and started telling my story, along with St. Jude’s Chapel of Hope (benchmark) role in it....
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“Please Lord, Prop Me Up in all my Leaning Places”
Dear Reader: If you think the picture (above) looks like it is leaning, you are right. I didn’t check it until I got home. I had my index finger poised to hit “fix” and then “straighten” on the...
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“In Search of Tinker Bell”…The First in a series of Magical Moon Gate Mysteries
Dear Reader: I will remember the summer of 2016 as the summer of garden mysteries. The first mystery was waiting for my moon flowers to appear and bloom on my deck, only to discover (in August) that I...
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The Pink Glow of Happiness
Dear Reader: Yesterday morning I woke to the sound of distant rumblings of thunder and then the pitter-patter of rain softly falling on the deck. It was about 6:00 a.m. so I rolled back over to snooze...
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Finding Our Bliss…
Dear Reader: By now many of you long-time readers know that this little statue, given to me by family, was the first statue in the garden. Its name is “Bliss.” When I first spotted it in a catalogue I...
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Flowers, Children, and Einstein
Dear Reader: A small little daily occurrence, while keeping Jakie Friday, sent my thoughts spiraling into the natural relationship between little children and flowers….perhaps the quote by Ralph...
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Blessing of the Backpacks
Dear Reader: It is hard to believe that today is the day! School is back in session! Wired, but exhausted students and teachers, are getting back in an old familiar routine for many and for...
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“Every Day May Not Be Good but There is Something Good In Every Day”
Dear Reader: Yesterday I was giving the B&B side a little dusting and straightening up before Brooke arrives tomorrow afternoon. She is going to spend the night with me and take me to my early...
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Bumblebees and Butterflies
Dear Reader: At the beginning of each chapter of Karen White’s latest summer novel, Flight Patterns, she has a quote about bees that parallel the life of one or more of the characters in that...
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“My Work is Loving This World”
Dear Reader: With each poem I read by Mary Oliver I am becoming a more avid fan. Her works are so down to earth and provide simple inspiration without a lot of fanfare. It appeals greatly to me at...
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“I Can See Clearly Now…the “Clouds” are Gone”
Dear Reader: Yesterday while I was getting checked in and vitals taken…I started humming “I can see clearly now” by Johnny Nash (his big hit from 1972.) The funny little anesthesiologist immediately...
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“Be Brave Boo Boo”!
Dear Reader: A couple of years ago, a new “variegated” version of Cinderella emerged in movie theaters. It was truer to real life than the earlier animated versions. This Cinderella’s name was Ella...
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Thinking of You…
Dear Reader: The Ya’s can tell you in unison, or separately, who sends the best cards….Jackson! Her cards are always unique and absolutely perfect for the occasion! This is the card (title...
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Take Time to Thrive!
Dear Reader: One of the items on my medical exit “not to do’ list is work in the yard/garden for five days following eye surgery or lift anything over 20 pounds. Oh no, I thought, my garden will have...
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“She Designed a Life She Loved”
Dear Reader: A God Wink for me! Yesterday I was doing some research on a cool sculpture I read about in a novel and ended up going *from sculptures to wooden plaques* and there it was: “She designed...
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If You Don’t Like Something, Change It; If you Can’t Change it, Change Your...
Dear Reader: In a surprisingly good read, The Night Garden, from an author I was not familiar with, Lisa van Allen, I found myself stopping and marking passages as I read farther and farther into the...
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No Cure for Aging? Don’t Despair; You’re not Sick!
Dear Reader: Does it bother any of you, like it does me sometimes, to watch the beauty cable channels (early in the morning if you can’t sleep) and realize that every other word coming out of the sales...
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When the Light Comes On…
Dear Reader: Teachers often talk about the “magic moments” in teaching when they are witness to the “light coming on” in a student’s eyes during a particular lesson concerning a basic tool or concept...
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The Sight of Sharpened Pencils, The Smell of Waxed Crayons…Fall is Arriving!
Dear Reader: I know I am trying to hurry Fall along, guilty as charged. I am just so ready for the smell of bonfires, crisp, brightly colored leaves falling, the sound of football bands, gorgeous mums...
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” Adopt the Pace of Nature: Her Secret is Patience”
Dear Reader: Yesterday as I ran several errands returning to a hot car after each completion, I, once again, wished the future would push the present out more rapidly, so Fall would return faster with...
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