Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Worth Quoting
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. " ~Mother Teresa Today is the 10th Blog Blast for Peace Day, a worldwide plead for peace…a responsibility not put on governments alone, but on each one of us. Dona Nobis Pacem…grant us peace. We are the seeds…
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There was roast pig and birthday cake. Wine and dancing. A gorgeous sunset over the hills. A warm fire. Familiar faces. Laughter and hugs. 50th birthdays are the best! I love helping friends celebrate them, especially when it means I get to spend time with my son and daughter-in-law… …
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I made another overnight trip to the Houston area this weekend to visit my mom. Because of the weather forecast, I expected to be driving in rain coming and going. And dreaded it something fierce! So what a sweet! surprise to have sunshine to and from Houston, with the predicted rain passing through early this…
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It wasn't a dramatic sunset, just soft faded blues and pinks, that grew deeper and darker as the sun slipped out of sight. I could have gone to the movies with friends tonight. Instead, I opted to stay home and take care of some crabby gray-haired to-do's and head off a few youngsters that…
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Long ago I dreamed of having the job I have now…only I didn't know what it was at the time. Does that make sense? As with any entrepreneurial endeavor, it's agonizingly slow getting started, but I'm confident in my abilities and that I'm on the right track. That's sweet! all by itself. (But if you,…
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When it rains, you grow. ~ On a local church sign I woke to the sound of rain Sunday morning. Such a sweet sound when you live near a lake that now resembles a creek after months…well, years…of too much sunshine and too little precipitation. Tonight the frogs living near our pond are singing…
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"A good laugh is sunshine in a house." ~William Makepeace Thackeray We were already running late to church this morning when we spotted him, a little dirty-white fluff of a dog at the top of our dirt road near the highway. I knew before he asked that Daniel would want to get out and…
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My middle son and I were headed west on I-10 out of Houston tonight after a weekend visit with my mom when this glorious sunset appeared before us. We were ooh-ing and ah-ing and I itched to grab my camera, but I played it safe and ordered delegated the picture-taking to Daniel. He was a…
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Usually the Monday following four incredible days full of sunshine in Port Aransas with twenty friends is a Monday in every sense of the word. But today hasn't been bad at all…except that it's too short. With everything going on in my life right now, I really didn't have time to slip away and lounge…
Long Hollow 