The breeze is so cool in the early morning, that it reminds me of fall. In less than a month, the children will be starting back to school. Flowers and grass have that middle-of-summer look. I noticed last night as I watered the Impatiens under the oak tree that they have spread nicely since I […]
Jul 20, 2014
God’s Subtle Blessings
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I wonder how many happy occurrences are directed by God as special gifts just for me? And you? I wonder if that safe trip to the grocery store, that sudden decision to take a different route from the usual one are actually God directing our paths out of danger? And we, like well-loved children, take […]
Jul 18, 2014
A Riot of Robins on Writing
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A chorus of robins greets the pre-dawn. I mean, a veritable flock! Maybe a family and their whole bunch of friends and relatives. I wondered if a group of robins has a specific name. For example, geese in flight are a skein, whereas, on the ground they are a gaggle. A bunch of crows is […]
Jul 17, 2014
A Little Bird Taught Me
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When robins travel on the ground, they mostly do so in little runs, then stop to locate a worm. The robin I saw yesterday trilled across the ground, chest puffed out, head up. He wasn’t listening for a worm, he felt good and he was strutting! It didn’t take much to fill that bird with […]
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 […]
