Dec 25, 2024

Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas! May the peace of candlelight,  The warmth of firelight, And the love of Christ Light your life this Christmas and in the year to come.

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Dec 24, 2024

The Day Before Christmas

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Christmas Eve I woke up this morning and sprang from my bed, with thoughts of a busy day rife in my head. On with the coffee pot, on with my blog; fill the bird feeders and also the dog. Quick, to the kitchen I go in a hurry; from counter to stove top I scoot […]

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Dec 22, 2024

The Tail of Buz the Fox

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Buz the Fox by Blanche Manos You see, it might have happened this way: once upon a time, about two thousand years ago, some foxes dwelt in the hill country and plains around Bethlehem. I hate to tell you this, but it was their custom to follow, at a discreet distance, the flocks of sheep […]

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Dec 21, 2024

What a Short Day!

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Happy first day of winter and the shortest day of the year! For those of you who are counting (and I know you are out there) the days will very slowly begin to lengthen now until around March 21, they’ll be equal in length to the nights again. Isn’t that great? My mother didn’t like […]

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Dec 19, 2024

The Canebrake

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Canebrake ABC’s Red ants, black ants marching all together, through a canebrake by the river in the lovely summer weather. Many-colored butterflies drift or dream or flit among tall stalks for the very fun of it. A caterpillar wriggles and a cricket creaks a song, surrounded by the river cane, thick and green and long. Dragonflies a-dazzle with […]

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Dec 18, 2024

Little Cedar and the Big Storm

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Fierce winds tugged at Little Cedar. His scrawny boughs bent and swayed but he dug his roots deeper and hung onto the rock buried beneath the mountain soil. “The wind is so cold,” said Little Cedar. He shivered from his topmost limb to the bottom of his twisted trunk. “It must be nearly Christmas again.” […]

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