A chorus of robins greets the pre-dawn. I mean, a veritable flock! Maybe a family and their whole bunch of friends and relatives. I wondered if a group of robins has a specific name. For example, geese in flight are a skein, whereas, on the ground they are a gaggle. A bunch of crows is […]
Jul 17, 2014
A Little Bird Taught Me
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When robins travel on the ground, they mostly do so in little runs, then stop to locate a worm. The robin I saw yesterday trilled across the ground, chest puffed out, head up. He wasn’t listening for a worm, he felt good and he was strutting! It didn’t take much to fill that bird with […]
Jul 13, 2014
Just Close Your Eyes, You Are There
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Imagination is a wonderful thing. It can take you any place you want to go. Sometimes, just as a sort of mini-vacation, I close my eyes and zip back a hundred years to Etta, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. The place I go is my grandparents’ farm. It is Sunday morning, July 13, 1914. Levi and Edna […]
Jul 9, 2014
In the Cool, Cool, Cool. of the Morning
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Mr. Gray just came for his breakfast, looking hopefully up at the door. Nemo did not like it one bit and tried to push his way to the porch in an unwelcoming way. Nemo’s attitude didn’t ruffle Mr. Gray’s fur, though. He merely sat down and began crunching. I poured another cup of Folgers and looked out […]
Jul 5, 2014
Fireworks!
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Sitting at the park last night with my family, I thought of how blessed I am to live here, in this town, in the United States of America. It was a perfect night, clear and cool, chilly, in fact. I wished I had brought a jacket. Fireworks were going off all around us, but we were […]
Jul 4, 2014
Poems That Said It Best
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So many things could be said about the Fourth of July. Our independence, our freedom is not to be taken lightly. I’m simply putting here a couple of poems to celebrate the day. I hope each of you, my readers, has a blessed and safe Fourth of July! Four Things Four things in any land […]
