The morning sky is a quiet, pale blue/gray with rosy tints around the horizon, the promise of another beautiful day. I remember other January days when I was a child and the sense of excitement and adventure a new year brought. I remember bacon sizzling in the skillet, breakfast with Mom, Dad, and my little […]
Dec 31, 2015
Many Things About Tomorrow
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Many things about tomorrow I don’t seem to understand; but I know Who holds tomorrow, and I know Who holds my hand. — Christian song. I don’t know who wrote those lyrics nor the melody but it certainly fits today, doesn’t it? The Old Year is nearly a thing of the past. The New Year is […]
Dec 30, 2015
Looking Back with a Shout
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Each year, the provider for my website, Jetpack, sends a run-down of what went on in this blog during the past year. It is interesting and thought-provoking. Can you believe Jetpack logged 12,000 visits to my site? For example, the busiest day was July 1 with 461 visits. And, of the seven days of the week, […]
Dec 29, 2015
My Bag of Tricks
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I want to thank my subscriber who asked what was in my writer’s bag of tricks. I wasn’t sure, myself, what was in there, so I took a look. Mostly what I found was a very active, often obstreperous imagination, but also, in that bag was the small phrase, “What if?” A current event, a past […]
Dec 28, 2015
Wildly Wayward Weather
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If Nature is tired of being taken for granted and is trying to be noticed, she has succeeded. This morning, the temperature hovers around 38; lightning cuts across the dark sky; thunder roars and threatens, and yet more rain sluices from the heavens. How much rain? I don’t know. One report yesterday said that 7.32 […]
Dec 22, 2015
A Character for the Season
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Darcy waxes philosophical: Sometimes society as a whole looks with suspicion on people who are different. This is unfair and undeserved, but we are an imperfect species. Jasper moved in a realm of woods and animals. He was friends with the owls. Civilized society is locked into a set of established rules. Surely, if someone likes God’s great out-of-doors […]
