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Ecological Co-habitation

by | Feb 26, 2022 | nature

So…. I’m sitting in the dark scrolling along and clicking between FB and Twitter, checking some of my favs, and I catch a glimpse of a shadow of something on the top edge of the screen. I focus in on the top of the screen and look closer…. there it...

Reuse, Renew, Recycle….

by | Feb 26, 2022 | home

Everything old is new again….. We have had this trash can for many years. I had it in the laundry area of the garage at Deerpoint Lake. A painter in 2013 got paint on the lid and it looked awful. When I moved I considered trashing it. Instead I cleaned the...

Unstuck: The Muck of Grief

by | Feb 25, 2022 | grief

My daughter in law shared this from Stasi Eldredge about grief. Like many others, I know the feeling of slogging through “knee deep mud” in the middle of grief. Some images are so vivid. I can remember a day when I was about 6 or 7. I headed to my...

Visiting Daddy

by | Feb 25, 2022 | family

I had a sweet dream last night and I think I know where it came from….Harper Lee died last Friday, on my birthday. I had purchased her second novel ,”Go Set a Watchman”, a sequel to her Pulitzer Prize winning novel “To Kill a...

What A Friend!

by | Feb 25, 2022 | Friendship

Wise words: In conversation a person said to me in a very thoughtful way, “I’m starting to see friendship differently. It is about being there and doing for others.” Indeed, friendship is defined by our willingness to “lay down our lives”...

This Isn’t Recovery

by | Feb 25, 2022 | grief

Recovery is “a process of change through which people improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives, and strive to reach their full potential.” (US government, as defined by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.” In...

Survey: Fingers in the Wind

by | Feb 24, 2022 | Uncategorized

God has such a sense of humor! I laughingly joke about a survey to assess people’s response to Facebook posts and God sends me an article on how to do it with numerous resources to do it! How appropriate that such a resource would come from a UMC board, given...

Aging and Ageism

by | Feb 24, 2022 | Aging

Bill has said for a while now that he has begun to observe that our culture in general begins dismissing people who are “of a certain age”. The opinions of those who are no longer actively engaged in producing obvious economic value to others may be...

Failures of Courage

by | Feb 24, 2022 | courage

2/24/18  Another School Shooting All the conversation in the most recent news cycle about failure of courage on the part of some who hid instead of defending our children reminds me of times when I was deciding whether or not to apply for a concealed carry permit at a...