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Maybe…
Dear Reader: Having the luxury of age and experience does help us recognize the balance of life between good and bad, happiness and sadness. With the gift of hindsight, we now understand that some of...
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Hope “Chirps”
Dear Reader: Redbirds have some of the strangest habits that keep me in stitches. For two spring/summer seasons I had a little redbird that kept banging its head against the sliding glass door on the...
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It is Time for Spring to Awaken our Faith
Dear Reader: How did Spring sneak in on me early this year? For some reason I always thought Spring arrived on the 21st, not the 20th? I felt sorta silly when I realized it came Monday and I had...
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With Every God Wink…You are Right on Top!
Dear Reader: When Tommy and Kaitlyn arrived at Lachlan’s birthday party last Friday Tommy told me they had found a book that they thought I would enjoy and had left it in my car for me. It was Squire...
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There is Beauty in Simplicity
Dear Reader: This year I have decided not to try to “out-do” any previous spring/summer gardens I have planted in the four years since its existence. I have decided to let Mother Nature have more a...
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When “Too Much of a Good Thing Can Be Wonderful”
Dear Reader: Legend has it that the ‘bigger than life’ actress, Mae West, coined the expression “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful” in her sultry, sexy voice to the delight of audiences...
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Being Conscious of our Treasures of Gratitude
Dear Reader: Isn’t it amazing how just by expanding our perception, even a little, the answers to many of our questions lay in wait…and always did. We just didn’t see them. Case in point: Thursday...
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Teacher Appreciation Week
Dear Reader: Last week, about mid-week, I sent Mandy a text simply asking how the week was going and how the grandchildren were doing….I got back three words. “I am exhausted!” Ah…that brought back...
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How It All Began? A Coincidence?
Dear Reader: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale once said, “Deep within you nothing is hopeless. You are a child of God and hope has been planted in you by God.” Squire Rushnell thought about these words one...
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Making Rainbows…
Dear Reader: If this weather pattern, we are in right now, is any indication, it could be a long, hot dry summer. So, as much as watering is not my most favorite thing to do ( I see dollar bills...
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Look in the Mirror…That is Your Competition
Dear Reader: After all the fun we have had commiserating over our ‘cardinal’ problems… resulting in a unified chorus of “Never more” (like Mike suggested) I got some sad news from Patty Knight...
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Welcoming the Easter Bunny to the Garden!
Dear Reader: It’s time to start sprucing up the garden to make way for the Easter Bunny! I still have a lot to do… first thing…I need to get an electrician out to help me check the fountain and see why...
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Another Look at Being Kind…
Dear Reader: Last weekend when Eva Cate spent the night with me she had a moment of homesickness that coincided with bed time. I am afraid she has inherited her “Boo’s” (“When the crickets’ start...
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Faith in Small Things…
Dear Reader: There is so much irony in life isn’t there? We spend so much of our childhood and youth longing to be grown up and have the freedom to do anything we like and go anywhere we wish…and then...
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A Taste of Cherries…
Dear Reader: Yesterday was a day for memories… celebrating family birthdays and soon-to-be weddings. These are times where we expect past memories to be triggered and pop up unexpectedly…but then...
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“I Woke Up This Morning and I Wasn’t Dead Again”
Dear Reader: What a beautiful thing morning is! Birds chirping, the sun peeping through the shutters, as the day calls us to come out and play! Or as Willie Nelson says: “I woke up this morning and I...
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“It’s Raining, It’s Pouring…The Old Man is Snoring…”
Dear Reader: I was so excited yesterday when I saw the rain drops falling on my car window as I was running errands that I about wrecked the car. Rain…beautiful rain! I found myself, gleefully,...
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“All Things Bright and Beautiful”
Dear Reader: Yesterday afternoon, as I sat down in front of the computer and thought about the day and what I was feeling…I suddenly heard the words in my head: “All Things Bright and Beautiful.”...
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“A Blessing to Take With You Through the Day”
Dear Reader: I came across a blessing that I really like…one I found and used several years ago, in fact, in one of my older blog posts. When I discovered it again yesterday I committed it to memory so...
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Scattering Joy…God-Fold
Dear Reader: With our ‘Winnie the Pooh Blustery Day‘ yesterday I couldn’t help but think of all the joys and blessings that must be flying around us bringing delight to so many. These blessings...
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