by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 31, 2023 | grief, memories
In October of 2013, three months after my Daddy’s death, I took a weekend retreat at a campground in a National Forest in Alabama. It was a small guest house close to the campground director’s home. I got there exhaursted, but with a big writing project...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 11, 2023 | music, singing
Oh, how I have learned this. I am grateful that God has put a song, in fact, many songs in my heart! I sang in one church choir after another most of my life and for two years as a tenor with the Sweet Adelines. I can carry a tune reasonably competently. And I can...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 6, 2022 | family, memories
The Boyd Boys- sons of William Nicky and Annie Elma Boyd- circa 1933. L to R- Cecil (deceased 2003), Hilly (deceased 2013) and Dempsey (deceased 2012). I can imagine them sitting together in the shade somewhere in heaven in aluminum lawn furniture as they did as young...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 24, 2022 | childhood memories, Daddy
73 Reasons Why You Are Special To Me Because you set such a good example as a Father that it was easy for me to understand the concept of God as a Father. Because you woke us up in the middle of the night to give us a drink of water. Because you bought sacks...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 27, 2022 | nature
Just yesterday I had noticed the first white blossoms of Bridal Wreath around town. They make me smile. Anytime my Daddy saw them blooming he would say their scientific name..”Spirea Van Hootii”… According to Mother, it was the only blooming plant...