More rain is forecast today. My grass is going wild with joy! Flowers are refreshed, and trees nod their heads like ancient sages who know the secrets of the ages. Just about anything goes better with a rainy day, including books, reading, writing, and cozy critiques. Today is the day for a few of us […]
Sep 14, 2014
Sauntering into Sunday
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Do you ever wake up with so many jumbled thoughts going through your head that it’s difficult to sort them out into anything meaningful? That’s me this morning! So, bear with me while I shuffle through and list them in no particular order. Happy Birthday to The Star Spangled Banner, 200 years old today and still […]
Sep 12, 2014
The Raging Tempest
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Hurricane Matthew is a raging tempest and has wreaked death and destruction in the Caribbean. It is now pounding the southeastern shores of the United States. We received ample warning that something deadly was heading toward our coast. Many people believed and either battened down or got out of the way. I’m amazed at the ones who scoffed at […]
Sep 9, 2014
A Safe Place
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Everyone needs a safe place, or maybe more than one. In this section of the country, we all need a safe room or a cellar when tornadoes threaten. In church Sunday, we discussed the word “Sanctuary”. To me, that has always meant a safe place. Maybe that’s why we call the part of our church […]
Sep 8, 2014
Saying Good-bye
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My heart is heavy this morning. Yesterday morning, my dear Minnesota sister-in-law went to be with the Lord. My thoughts and prayers are with my brother, niece and nephew, and her sister and brother. She was a part of my family for more than fifty years. In that space of time, you get to know a […]
Sep 5, 2014
Goose Summer
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The following is from my book about my mother’s life as a girl at Etta Bend, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. The words are hers, Susie Latty Day’s: In the fall come rare, sparkling days that are warm and bright, with very little wind, a day when natures seems to savor the last remnants of summer. Spider webs […]
