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When Grandma Got Lost In Cyberspace
Dear Reader: I came across a funny little poem about “Grandma getting lost in cyberspace”…and I thought to myself, she sure isn’t alone. Every time I start getting just a little cocky about my “fair...
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“Every Flower is a Soul Blossoming in Nature”
Dear Reader: It happened! I went out yesterday morning to admire all the work my “fire boys” (as I call my firemen lawn cutters) had done. They surprised me by digging up all the dirt, leaves, and...
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Sacred Laughter
Dear Reader: Kelly Rae Roberts painted this particular ‘mantra of the soul” painting calling it “Divinity of Gladness.” Happiness, humor, and laughter should be a divine attribute to our Creator. I...
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The South’s “Rose of Fall” isn’t a “Rose at All”
Dear Reader: Friday when I returned back home it was too dark to see anything in the garden and then yesterday morning when I first woke up…it was drizzling and gray outside. I walked out on the deck...
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Power Thought Card Challenge
Dear Reader: Today I am leaving for Edisto Beach for our Ya Fall Retreat. We meet in early summer, fall, and winter. It is always a wonderful way to start the season spending it with “seasoned”...
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Comfort and Joy at Home
Dear Reader: Continuing with my five-day ‘Power Thought Cards’ challenge…I drew the card above for today, Tuesday’s blog post. (My home is a peaceful haven.) And it is! I am very careful to keep bad...
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Changing Our Quality of Life Through Creative Thinking
Dear Reader: There are now two passages of “truth” that I feel unequivocally adamant about in my sixth decade on this planet. 1) We are all connected 2) Obtaining a meaningful and fruitful life...
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The Gift from the Past: Memories
Dear Reader: I remember when mother was at the Presbyterian Village, after her dementia grew worse, my heart was so heavy. It was nothing to do with the “Village” per se, it was simply that mother was...
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PARASKEVIDEKATRIAPHOBIA
Dear Reader: I picked out five “Power Thought Cards” at random to create a post around each day this past week I have been at Edisto Beach. Today, Friday the 13th I am returning home. I remember last...
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Bless Be the Ties that Bind… Black Pants!
Dear Reader: We are all back safe and sound…even driving home on Friday the 13th! As usual the hiatus was way too short and we all stayed as long as we could yesterday without getting into late Friday...
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Bridge to Serenity and Peace
Dear Reader: Apparently for years each of us Ya’s, individually, have been feeling the same sense of freedom and peace as we cross the McKinley Washington Bridge that takes us to Edisto Island. It is...
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God Loves the Little Things…
Dear Reader: Before I left to go to Edisto Beach last week an email had popped up talking about the Church of the Small Things. I glanced at it but was in a hurry to get ready to leave for the retreat...
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A Parade of Pink Perfection
Dear Reader: Every year when the Race for the Cure begins I find myself amazed at the diversity of people walking/running for this cause. Babies are pushed in strollers, little children are running...
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Welcome to Netherworld…
Dear Reader: Half of the pleasure of reading is finding innovative expressions or thoughts. Some of these really stir my imagination. In Book 12 of the Penny Louise detective novels, Armand Gamache,...
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The Enduring Legacy of Leaving Shade Behind…
Dear Reader: I came across an article that really ‘hit home’ for me and brought back so many memories. The article, itself, will make most of you nostalgic over a special tree (s) in a grandparents’...
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Thankfulness is the Beginning of Happiness
Dear Reader: One book that I keep right under the ledge that holds my desktop computer is one of my favorite all-time books…Archibald Rutledge’s little book on Life’s Extras. (This book was once given...
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The Confederate Rose and the Race for the Cure…A Strange Metaphor of Life
Dear Reader: *** It is finally here- the RACE FOR THE CURE! And BOO IS HERE! Photos and fun on tomorrow’s blog! We are so close to our goal we could sneeze and slide into home base… so if there is...
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More Than Pink…
Dear Reader: The theme for this year’s Susan G. Komen’s Race for the Cure was…More Than Pink…and it certainly was! It was sixteen shades of blues, grays, blacks, tans, green, yellows and white....
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Just Because…It Makes Me Happy!
Dear Reader: I think I have been slowly going through some kind of metamorphosis of late. If you look up the definition for this word the dictionary says: Definition of metamorphosis – (in an insect...
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Fall Messages of Faith
Dear Reader: *Interesting God Wink. I was looking up something on the connection between the season of fall and faith and when I googled the two words …up popped my blog written just a little over a...
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