According to Weatherbug.com, the temperature is 55.3 degrees this morning! This is wonderful. The day is starting off to be as lovely as yesterday, and that was, weatherwise, an unbeatable, cool, sunny day. The marvelous thing is this isn’t April nor October, but July. Yesterday was a perfect day to work outside, so I did. My herb […]
Jul 15, 2014
A Whisper in the Wind
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My dear cousin Brian sent me copies of articles he had found which first appeared in a Tahlequah newspaper in 1913. What treasures! News from county communities included quite a few items from Etta. At that time, my mother was seven years old. It was a glimpse into life a hundred years ago. A hundred […]
Jul 14, 2014
More Monday Morning Meanderings
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This morning, we’ve had a spot of rain. Trees are dark and motionless, waiting for more. So am I. And, the weather forecast is for cooler weather. This is quite a nice summer. All the lawns are still green, not by virtue of homeowners watering but from the rain. Today, I am very grateful for […]
Jul 13, 2014
Just Close Your Eyes, You Are There
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Imagination is a wonderful thing. It can take you any place you want to go. Sometimes, just as a sort of mini-vacation, I close my eyes and zip back a hundred years to Etta, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. The place I go is my grandparents’ farm. It is Sunday morning, July 13, 1914. Levi and Edna […]
Jul 12, 2014
The Faith of Bartimaeus
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It was just another day in the life of Bartimaeus. He sat down beside the road in the dust, the sun beating down on his head and back, hoping that a few kind-hearted people who passed by would give him enough money to buy food. That’s the way many blind people made a living in […]
Jul 11, 2014
Feeling Spidery
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Some things in life I can’t change. Oh, I would like to change them, but they seem far beyond my reach. However, there are things I can change! My back yard, for instance. During the early spring when many people were shaping up their yards and gardens, I was sitting at my computer, busily editing […]
