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Close Knit Family

Close Knit Family

A year ago today I was flying home from a trip. We had a little bit of stormy weather just as we were descending into Bay Co. It reminded me of my maternal grandmother, Ludie Belle Baxley Greene. Her son, my uncle, Jeffie Vernon Greene, was an Army 82nd Airborne...

Soul Stories

Writer Charlotte Donlon describes well the work we are doing as women write and share their inventories during steps 4 and 5 in the Twelve Step process. It is an evolving process, learning to hear and express one’s soul. “I describe soul stories as stories that touch...

Turning Around Point

I’ve always loved this story of how pilots out of Eglin AFB use the Blue Lake Camp crosses near Andalusia, AL as a landmark! And how once, when they were turned out to conserve energy and money the Air Force contacted Blue Lake and asked that they be turned back...
For Show or Blow

For Show or Blow

As a child I was fond of reading biographies of the famous and not-so-famous. It’s a commendable practice for young people today. Here’s one worth the read. From The Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust:    http://www.crowthertrust.org/welles-story/...
Eagles Raised in Barnyards

Eagles Raised in Barnyards

I enjoy eagle stories…(imagine that…a Byrd who graduated from Auburn University!) and this blog is a keeper!   Are you an eagle raised in a barnyard?  By Patricia Holbrook    Atlanta Journal Constitution 10-28-17 A farmer was walking by a field one...

Narrative and Active Listening

“The truth of personal narrative is that being human can seem like an exercise in futility, sometimes right up to the last breath a person draws. The truth of personal narrative is that, no matter how compelling the story, no matter the suffering it entails, no...