My thoughts this morning are a patchwork of this and that, a meandering trip through unrelated things. Hopefully coherent but probably not cohesive. Speaking of related–it was a pleasure yesterday to get a request from a dear niece for information on ancestors. It’s great when younger people want to know about previous generations, those who […]
Mar 15, 2015
Camouflage
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We all looked pretty normal, those of us at the NWA Writers’ Workshop in Fayetteville yesterday. Just glancing at us, nobody would suspect that we wore camouflage, that behind the friendly smiles lurked other people–the creators of other worlds, excitement, danger and daring deeds. On second thought, we would have been suspect because after all, that’s what writers do. Fog […]
Dec 27, 2014
St. Swithin’s Day? No, Not That
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I kept thinking, this morning, that December 27 must be of historical significance or religious significance. St. Swithin came to mind. I looked it up and since it is July, this can’t be the day to celebrate that good saint. It is significantly wet here in NWArkansas and, although Christmas Day the sun shone, the […]
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 […]
