I turned up some more half-forgotten things as I was digging through boxes. One thing was this very old picture of me and our gentle Guernsey cow Boots. I guess one of my brothers made the picture. He was into photography at that time. Good night! Campaign buttons from the fifties, pictures of grade school […]
Oct 29, 2023
Who Is That Knocking?
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Who is that knocking on the door of autumn? It sounds like Old Man Winter, demanding entry. Today is chilly and wintry with falling temperatures and rain. Tonight and tomorrow, even colder–below freezing! And, it’s not even Halloween! Is this going to be a frigid winter? Last night was cold and drizzly as winter made […]
Oct 27, 2023
What I Turned Up!
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For the past several days, I’ve been digging through drawers, trying to discard, separate, and delegate all the many pictures and mementoes I find. This activity has a tendency to dredge up a lot of old memories. For instance I found two paper dolls that I played with when I was a little girl. Now, […]
Oct 20, 2023
Characters and Character
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“Character is much easier kept than recovered,” Thomas Paine said. But, what is character? Personality is who people think you are; character is the real you. Character is all your deeply-held beliefs, your goals, your standards, the things that make you laugh or cry; your hates, your loves, your fears, your belief in what is […]
