LET’S TRADE PHONES

  My view this morning! Please ignore my messy table – but don’t ignore the beauty of my flowers!  My DH grows zinnias every summer just for the picking.  He used to have a huge bed of them, but recent…

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METEORS

It is the time of year for the Perseid meteor shower.  The forecast for viewing has been good – cloudless night skies with no moon reflection to deal with that would outshine the meteors.  The reading material says closer to…

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A TIME TO END AND A TIME TO BEGIN

This is a strange week for me.  It is the week that my unemployment checks end and it is the week that school starts for many.  I have been a part of the beginning of school for the last 24…

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BORN GRATEFUL

Who among you was born grateful?  I know I wasn’t.  I was born demanding.  I was born needy.  I was born with some level of entitlement.  And so were you. Don’t kid yourself.  Don’t lie to the rest of us….

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A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY

I just don’t learn my lesson.  I tend to make the same mistakes over and over again.  How about you?  Do you learn or do you have to repeat the process until you get it right?  Sigh…. I also am…

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OMPHALOSKEPSIS

When I was in seminary, eons ago, I remember  one of the most hysterical statements I heard went something like this: “I am contemplating my finitude.”   What the what?  Who sits around contemplating their “finitude”?  Crazy people, that is…

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WHAT FILLS YOU UP?

This week my day is starting out with a cold, steel cut oatmeal “parfait”.  Let me say, I am not a fan of oatmeal…. I am a cream of wheat kind of gal.  I can even do the instant cream…

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WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?

  There comes a time in this unemployment journey where I find myself wondering “whose life is this?”. This is not what I have prepared for, not what I have planned, not what I desire.  It is easy to say…

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ROLLER COASTERS PART II

As promised…. since my DH traumatized me on a roller coaster – I am telling on him…… People who have connections to the Wichita, KS area are very familiar with Joyland, a local Amusement Park.  The park was a long…

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SCREAM OR ENJOY THE RIDE

Today calls for some laughter. Something to make us smile, to remind us that not everything is “that” serious.  I know, I get caught all too often in the trap of fixing and worrying and complaining about the day to…

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