Back in the late 60’s when I was a child in first grade, our teacher had us sit and watch as she made a paper ornament. First, she colored the design, then cut it out and lastly glued the paper tabs into place, all while describing everything she was doing. I was beyond bored. At […]
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A couple of weeks ago, my father died. He was a man of prayer, a man who taught his children to pray, who always had an eye to eternity! He told us many stories; one of his stories included: If a bird flew over a mountain every thousand years and dropped one feather on the […]
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
“…Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words…” Time. Just once, I’d give anything to have been a fly on the wall of Robert Frost’s office; poised on the window near where Mr. Frost sat, watching as he bounced things around in his head, perhaps chewing on a pencil end […]
Close your eyes and see The singular life that’s yours~ Smile in wonderment… Michele Marie
This morning I grabbed my coffee and woke up the dog to do her morning routine outside. (This is ‘Winnie’ -our miniature daschund) I accompanied her outside as lately she seems needy- she doesn’t want to be outside by herself – so I took my coffee and decided to sit outside for awhile so she’d […]
My daughter and I went to the circus awhile back, and as we went into the big tent, there was this arrow pointing right. I thought it funny and relevant that she didn’t see the arrow, and turned left, (which of course was the wrong way to go~) So after we’d both had a chuckle, […]
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