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Music and Memories…
Dear Reader: Yesterday’s blog brought back many memories for some of our readers who responded by telling me their connection to the song “I Love You a Bushel and a Peck and a Hug Around the Neck.”...
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If It Doesn’t Open…It’s Not Your Door!
Dear Reader: When one gets to the glorious age that I am now…hindsight becomes a constant companion and comforter. Suddenly things that never made sense, while living them in the present, things that...
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A Determined Bloom
Dear Reader: As I was going through a drawer looking for some tissue paper…suddenly I came across this beautiful little surcie that (most likely) Harriett Edwards brought me back from an ADK...
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“It is not Happy people who are thankful, It is Thankful people who are happy!”
Dear Reader: I believe the statement in the title blog says it all: …“It is thankful people who are happy” and yesterday I had some happy news that I was very thankful for… On November 7, I went to my...
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Thanksgiving… The Last “Speed Bump” before Christmas…or more?
Dear Reader: The other night as I was heading home along Highway 17 I blinked and then blinked again….three houses had their Christmas lights already up. Stores have been overlooking Thanksgiving for...
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The Story Behind Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving
Dear Reader: My generation of the ‘Baby Boomers’ grew up with this image in our minds when we thought of an American Thanksgiving. Like other traditional images…this painting, too, makes us feel...
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Never Having Known…
Dear Reader: I hope your Thanksgiving was filled with “plenty of reasons to give thanks.” Mine sure was! When I received the following comment from Jo Dufford yesterday it made me pause and realize...
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The Trees of Late Autumn in Miler
Dear Reader: Yesterday was my day to do nothing…nada. I stayed in my pj’s for a long time, read, ate a late breakfast and finished putting up some left-overs… getting the rest of the pots and pans in...
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A “Birthday Bulb Promise”!
Dear Reader: Yesterday morning I got a text from Anne Peterson (a.k.a) Dr. Morning Glory asking if she could make a call around 10:30 and bring two bags of daffodil bulbs that she had for me...
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Faith on a Foggy Morning
Dear Reader: If I don’t have to drive in the fog…I really love the sense of fog settling in around my home, yard, and neighborhood. Some of my favorite garden jaunts last summer were early foggy...
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“There is No Us and Them”
Dear Reader: Last Friday when I took random photos of the “Fall Trees of Miler” for the blog… I looked at my Bradford Pear, in the front yard, and it just didn’t stand up to all the other beauties in...
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“Done is Better than Perfect”
Dear Reader: How many of you, like me, have never finished a particular project because it wasn’t “good enough” in our self-inflicted perfectionist eyes? Some times these experiences just re-enforce...
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A Daily Dose of Happiness…
Dear Reader: In France, there is an expression I love that has been passed down from generation to generation…Find your “petits bonheurs du jour.” This translates: Look for your little daily joy....
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Never Confuse What is Urgent with What is Truly Important!
Dear Reader: Yesterday was one of those special times, that come along bringing extraordinarily memorable moments on ordinary days. It all began with the “Wheel barrow” sleigh delivering red...
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If You Don’t Have Christmas in your Heart, You will Never Find it under the Tree
Dear Reader: When we were growing up weren’t we all guilty (at one time or another) of letting loved ones know our disappointment Christmas morning if we didn’t get the one “ticket” item we wanted? As...
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Now is the Time…Love Your Life!
Dear Reader: Isn’t it a wonderful “aha” moment when we take time to pause and think aloud ” I love my life!” (Especially meaningful… when life is not going according to our own planned benchmarks, as...
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Christmas IS Hope!
Dear Reader: As I was putting my creches around the decorative light ornament I received, as a gift, several Christmases ago…I thought again about how much I loved my HOPE manager scene…with the O...
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“Big Red’s” Christmas Present to Me…
Dear Reader: When I went to open my front door yesterday morning….the first three buds on “Big Red” had burst open and I thought to myself…’Christmas has arrived.‘ What a wonderful gift from Mother...
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The “Ballast” in our Lives…Finding our Balance
Dear Reader: Many of you will be traveling elsewhere for Christmas …to families, to see the grandchildren, or perhaps spend a quiet Christmas elsewhere at some vacation spot. Traveling at Christmas...
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Memories of Chocolate Christmases
Dear Reader: Haven’t you experienced a time when you were missing a loved one who has passed on and then something happens to bring them back to you… in your memory? Honey and I were talking about...
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