by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 24, 2022 | memories, Methodism
Sent by a friend: GARRISON KEILLOR ON “METHODISTS” We make fun of Methodists for their blandness, their excessive calm, their fear of giving offense, their lack of speed, and also for their secret fondness for macaroni and cheese. But nobody sings like...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 23, 2022 | marriage, memories
Having sweet memories of a fun day, remembering our youth! This was in May 1972 almost two months after our first date on April 1st! We were married in July during summer semester and moved into married student housing for his last two semesters at AU! Then moved to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 21, 2022 | memories, Movies
Bill and I went to an afternoon movie, “Risen”, with Rev. Grant and Jennifer Powell. of First Church of God of Panama City. We enjoyed the movie and the conversation about it afterward as much or more! Pastor Grant has done a sweet service for Titus 2 this...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 17, 2022 | memories
Bill or I are continually hunting something…..phones, glasses, eye drops, dog leashes, wallet, shoes, jackets, etc. So, I’m still lying in bed when Bill wanders through the bedroom. He pokes around at the bedside table, apparently looking for something. “Whatcha...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 31, 2022 | memories
My lament….. I do not wish to relive every sad moment of 9/11 for the next 48 hours…… it is a trauma that remains emblazoned in the memories of many. And with events of the world today, it is an all too familiar reminder of humankind’s tendency to act inhumanely...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 15, 2021 | memories
Jordan B Peterson on The Purpose of Memory: “People think that the purpose of memory is to remember the past. That’s not the purpose of memory. The purpose of memory is to extract out, from the past, lessons to structure the future. That’s the...
