Time travel is a reality within the pages of my shabby old address book. This book is well on its way to becoming an antique with a shining amount of provenance. Memories! It holds memories and a record of lives lived. For example, my son decorated several of those dog-eared and ragged pages with scribbles […]
Oct 27, 2022
A Good Helper Says So Long
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We had been together for more than three and a half decades. Through the hottest summers and the coldest winters, she kept humming right along, doing her job, not asking for much, but enriching the quality of life for my family and me. Alas, it seems that all things must come to an end and […]
Oct 25, 2022
Rain
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At last, we’re getting much-needed rain. To say “much-needed” doesn’t really describe the state of dryness we’ve been in for a long time. I don’t think we had any rain in September and here it is, nearing the last of October. I’m just grateful for it. The trees and grass surely are, too. Fire danger […]
Oct 24, 2022
And What Happened Next?
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I watched a nature program about a mama bear waking up after a winter’s hibernation. She had two cubs, so small that they had a hard job following her when she left the cave. The snow was deep and the grown bear took off, leaving her babies to struggle through the deep snow. They floundered […]
Oct 23, 2022
Secrets
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The cornfield in the moonlight where the shadows dance and sway Is not the same at midnight as it is throughout the day. The field is hushed at midnight; the world has gone to sleep; But the cornstalks nod and rustle at the mysteries they keep. Who moves throughout the cornfield? Who creeps and scuttles […]
