Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Family
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"You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip slidin' away." – Paul Simon Ah, that's how it feels this week, just slipping and sliding, doing my best to stay on my feet. I'm standing at the door of another weekend wondering how the heck I got here. Piles of junk, papers and boxes…
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This first post after the weekend was supposed to be all about rocking out with our friends to the music of Kansas/Foreigner/Styx. That will have to wait because, true to its nature, my Monday didn't go as I planned. To honor a privacy pact I made with a very dear person, all I can say…
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At dawn the hollow was bathed in an ominous yellow-green as if someone had swathed the sun in colored tissue paper. Thunderstorms were on their way. It figured that this was the day I picked to run errands. By the time I dressed and stepped outside, racing to get a walk in before the storm hit,…
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~ Abraham Lincoln I collect things … books, crosses, photographs. I also collect memories, tucking them away in my heart, filing them according to category, to be pulled out at a later date when they're needed.…
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When you think about it, life is so very fragile, so touch and go, and there are so many things that can go wrong – that do go wrong sometimes – that it's a miracle any of us are even here. When you think about the pain of childbirth, the exhaustion of taking care of…
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I staggered in from the grocery store this evening with a hunger headache, clutching my to-go bag of Panda Express orange chicken and mixed vegetables, leaving the groceries for Tom and Daniel to lug down to the house. All I could think about was taming my growling stomach and aching head. But then…
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What happened to that sweet little puppy we brought home a few weeks ago? We were so worried big old Max would hurt her … little did we know she's a rocket, made of rubber and springs and things that wiggle and chew … packed full of puppy energy and Joie de Vie. I'm thinking there's…
Long Hollow 