Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Of Life and Love
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"This is my vindication," Tom said, sitting down next to me and waving a Wal-mart receipt between us. He had come from the garage. I thought maybe he had found the receipt for something he needed to return. I wondered what it was – he seemed pretty passionate about it. …
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I entered the room full of smiling, but unfamiliar, faces, trying to set a brave, confident example for my three kids. But inside I felt shy, like I was a kid on the first day of school, afraid no one would like me. I smiled and said, hi, hi, hi, and they…
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God smiled on my baby girl this morning in honor of her seventeenth birthday – He provided overcast skies and a few sprinkles of rain. Most people would want sunshine on their birthdays, but TG is working as a counselor at a day camp this summer; she yearned for a break from the sunshine and…
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TG is sleeping. She had her wisdom teeth removed this morning. I have the kitchen timer set so that every twenty minutes, I pull a frozen gelpack from the freezer and wrap it in a towel. I gently lift her head to remove the warm one, then rest the coldest one on the opposite side…
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I discovered Ruthie’s body yesterday morning – what was left of it – near the birdfeeder in our little front yard. A pile of her soft white feathers lay among the wildflowers, along with enough other parts for me to know she was gone. She was one of a pair of wild guineas…
Long Hollow 