After a spring-like day yesterday, today we are back into winter. I heard the change roar in around 11:30 last night. Things outside began banging or rolling or whistling. I have never liked hearing the wind. My sympathy is with the animals in that. Wind makes them nervous and I can understand why. I’ve heard […]
Dec 4, 2013
Wednesday Wanderings
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Some mornings I wake up with my mind going in a dozen different directions. Do you do that? I have a feeling if I could capture those fly-away thoughts and concentrate on one or two of them for, maybe thirty minutes or so, I might solve some of my problems. Like, where did I put […]
Nov 10, 2013
Storms of Life
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There’s an old song that goes something like this, “When the storms of life are raging, stand by me.” Seems to me that Tennessee Ernie Ford sang that song. The words refer to the emotional, spiritual storms that we all encounter but could also be applied to the violent weather that devastates areas of our […]
Jul 20, 2013
The Shivers
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A lot of us like to read books of scary fiction. That’s the key word–fiction. If we know it is only make-believe and we are safe and snug inside our own homes when we read it, it gives us a satisfying case of the shivers. One summer years ago when I was visiting my brother […]
Jul 1, 2013
The Umbrella Oak
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A large oak stands firmly anchored to the ground on land that once belonged to my parents. It is so tall and its limbs spread so wide that when a person stands under it during a shower, she is sheltered from much of the rain. Whether it’s wise to be standing there during a thunderstorm […]
Jun 2, 2013
Sunshine, faith and hope
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Friday the weather delivered a major wallop to already hurting Oklahoma. It seemed unreal that yet another deadly twister bore down on the Sooner State; but that is what happened. Not just one funnel, but many dropped from those angry clouds. Once again, tornadoes dealt death and destruction to the people of my home state. […]
