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A Five-Star Day!
Dear Reader: In yesterday’s blog entry we were talking about pink stars and super heroes and mentoring roles. In actuality yesterday was spent with Eva Cate as a reward for her earning 5 Stars each...
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A Most Wonderful Halloween Treat!
Dear Reader: Perhaps today, officially Halloween, I might become ‘victim’ to a prank from the grand-kids or receive a “trick” from the universe but no matter…because I have already received enough...
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An Adventure…a “Seeking” at Mepkin Abbey
Dear Reader: Sometimes our greatest adventures start in the most ordinary ways. Last week on Lowcountry Live (a local television show) a special segment was being shown about the most haunted places...
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Today…I Wish You a Day of Ordinary Miracles…
Dear Reader: There are just some places that you anticipate seeing items of beauty that mark your day, as well as, your memory…a day of “ordinary” miracles. Yesterday was such a day! I got home from...
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All Shall Be Well…
Dear Reader: As children weren’t we always seeking reassurance from our parents, as we let go of one stage of development and reached towards the next one, that we would be okay and come out just fine...
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Boo’s Out; Blessings In!
Dear Reader: Yesterday was spent taking down all my “Boo” signs…it is always a sad day…especially this year…since I “out-booed” myself for sure. It is time to say good-bye to Halloween with all its...
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Your “Thoughty” Thoughts
Dear Reader: We are off and running with your “thoughty thoughts” on the blessings that have come your way. In chronological order…here are the responses I received back yesterday… (as a request and...
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“Woo Hoo… I’m Grateful to be Alive!”
Dear Reader: I was reading some thoughts from Kate Wolfe-Jenson the other day and noticed that her blog centered around gratitude also. I think that is why I love the holiday Thanksgiving so much…it...
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The World of You and Me and Possibility….
Dear Reader: I don’t want you to think it has taken me this long to get my DNA report back on my ethnicity and heritage from ancestor.com. It actually arrived in late August… right before the...
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The Secret Key In Our Daily Lives
Dear Reader: What is it about a key that captures our imagination…especially a key without a lock? What could the key go to…a treasure box…a dancing ballerina music box…an old metallic, dusty bank box...
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Billy Graham: The Importance of Praying for Our Leaders
Dear Reader: You have probably noticed that I have kept a low profile on the campaign and election of our new President. Friends and politics don’t mix. I am typing today’s blog before noon…so I have...
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Grace Under Fire
Dear Reader: Today I am leaving to go to Conway to spend the night and attend a presentation Friday- Veterans Day- (by my brother at his local church) about his memoirs of Vietnam in his book called...
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Daily Miracles at War
Dear Reader: It is Veterans Day and while you are reading this I am in Conway for my brother Ben’s presentation on his soon-to-be published book Grace Under Fire. Those gathered today will be family,...
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A Family Event Revealed: A Special Day
Dear Reader: So much happiness! Tommy and Kaitlyn have decided that May 6, 2017 will be their wedding day. It will be a small family wedding on the beach and I couldn’t be happier! Even though we lost...
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Bountiful Blessings
Dear Reader: The title picture was taken at the church where Ben gave his Veterans Day Presentation Friday at noon. The church put on a light lunch/brunch for the attendees (which was very nice) while...
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Being Thankful for Those Who Care Beyond the Grave
Dear Reader: After mother died in 2000 Ben and I were saddened to see how time had erased some of daddy’s military cross information and David’s marble slab at Forest Lawn Cemetery. It had sunk very...
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Au Revoir or A Bientot
Dear Reader: A little thought fluttered by me yesterday morning after reading some of your comments on the amazing man who gives up his only day from work, each week, to honor veterans by cleaning...
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A Separate Soul Connected in a Sea of Life
Dear Reader: “When time comes for us to again rejoin the infinite stream of water flowing to and from the great timeless ocean, our little droplet of soulful water will once again flow with the endless...
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“I Can Be Changed by What Happens to me, but I Refuse to be Reduced by it!”
Dear Reader: The title photo shows a wooden plank from Jackson’s family home (later her home) that Matthew, her son, gave her with a sketch of their house and the quote from Maya Angelou that I used...
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“I Love you a Bushel and a Peck and a Hug around the neck”
Dear Reader: How many of you remember hearing this expression (growing up) from your mother, aunt, or grandmother? I do remember always wondering what a bushel and a peck were exactly…but it never...
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