Such an absolutely beautiful Sunday morning! Not a leaf stirs as the sun dapples them with gold and shadow. On my neighbor’s driveway, a rabbit with wet feet stops and does a bit of drying off. Two squirrels chase each other around the maple. In the back yard, the little robin family is out for an […]
Jun 4, 2016
A View from the Top
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The view from my 7th floor hospital room is quite nice. Rogers is spread out under me. On the interstate, cars are busily going here and there. People are starting a new day. I’m glad to be among them. Our hearts are wonderful things and when they are in sound working order, they run a […]
Jun 2, 2016
Flood Waters and Faith
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The sky is dark this morning. This type of weather might be thought of as foreboding or foreshadowing, especially for friends and family in Texas. High water there already and more rains coming for Texas. Heartbreaking pictures of animals trying to escape flood waters, taking refuge wherever they can, on porches, on tops of cars, anywhere higher […]
Jun 1, 2016
Creatures of Habit
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This morning, as the coffee finished perking, I looked in the cabinet for my favorite mug. Coffee would surely taste just as good in any other cup or mug but I really like this one. Why? It has a blue stripe and a blue flower, is larger at the bottom than the top, isn’t too large and […]
May 31, 2016
The Tattered Cloak of Self Esteem
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Do you ever have a day or a week when you want to throw in the towel, look yourself in the mirror, and say, “So, what made you ever think you could be a writer?” (Or a pianist or a cook or an …anything?) Do you feel like a weed in the garden of life? Or […]
May 30, 2016
A Tight Grip on Freedom
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I hate war. I hate the thought of it: the separation from loved ones, the pain and death and cruelty and barbarism. What is at the heart of war? Why can we not live, each in his own country, peacefully? “War is hell,” said General Sherman. He should know. He certainly inflicted a lot of it on the […]
