We all have something we enjoy doing, a hobby or maybe more than one hobby, that we like to do just for fun. For many years, more than I’d like to count, I’ve had a love affair with gourds. I have garbage cans and sacks full of gourds. Some are big, some are small. Those […]
Jul 12, 2013
Footprints
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My grandchildren like to make footprints. When they get out of the pool, they will sometimes purposely walk around on the deck, leaving those wet little shapes of their feet. We’ve all read (or written) mystery stories that involve searching for footprints as clues to who has been where. I’ve sometimes wondered if the places […]
Jul 11, 2013
The Cat’s Meow
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Lazy Summer Slumber softly, summer cat, Dozing in the sunbeams. Needing neither rhyme nor reason To become one with the season; Tawny, yawny, warm and mellow, Sun-drenched days and cat of yellow Loving lazy daydreams. […]
Jul 10, 2013
Mighty Mullein
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I see it growing beside highways and in the woods. I never thought about it being particularly important because it looks like a weed. It’s leaves are a soft, blurry kind of gray-green and its bloom pods have tiny yellow flowers and not many of them blossom at the same time. It goes by the […]
Jul 9, 2013
They That Be For Us
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A friend and I were visiting yesterday. She was feeling discouraged and sad because of some things over which she had no control. She was worried but she is a Christian and was reminding herself that God knows all about her troubles. We all feel overwhelmed sometimes and have no idea which way to turn […]
Jul 8, 2013
Lightnin’ Bugs
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They come every year about this time, those tiny little flashes of light in the summer night. Some people call them fireflies but I’ve always called them lightnin’ bugs. They don’t much resemble a fly and I wouldn’t say their glow is like a fire but it sure does light up the darkness. Wikipedia says […]
