2014 August – Long walks and dark chocolate

Wish I was eating cake with you

August 18, 2014 6 Comments

After all these years, I can still see you standing there. You, in your blue jeans, with your unruly curls, your lipstick on, nails polished, smelling like Cinnabar.

It is hard for me to imagine that if you were still here, today you would be celebrating your 68th birthday. Time stands still and I remember you forever at 49.

Time hadn’t etched many lines in your face and your eyes were clear and bright. The hand that only ever got to feel Morgan, when she kicked in my 8 month pregnant belly, was steady and bore no signs of age spots. Before sickness took it’s toll, you were energetic and vivacious!

I don’t question why anymore, as I trust God’s timing in all things, but oh, mother, how I still miss you!

My heart still aches with grief sometimes and yes, the tears still fall, but not nearly as often. There are so many things I would love to be able to share with you and I can’t count the times I still desire your wise counsel and advice.

Until heaven, I must be content with memories, so I am eternally grateful and immensely blessed to have a million good ones with you.

Feeling highly favored to have called you mine,

Lisa

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Sniffing crayons

August 3, 2014 Leave a Comment

Reposting in the spirit of all things “back to school”!

Long walks and dark chocolate

World-famous Crayola crayons are manufactured in Easton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As I walk into Walmart and veer over toward the aisles with signs advertising “back to school” sales, I realize, I want school supplies. I always do at this time of year. Call me crazy, but I love paper products and I feel like I’m missing out on something.

It’s like a new season; a fresh start to a new year of learning, meeting new people and new teachers and a year to be a better student and classmate. That is how I always viewed it anyway.

I can smell the crayons and recall the careful searching for just the right box. In kindergarten, there were the chubby crayons available in limited colors, for little fingers not yet aware of their strength. Next was the bigger box sporting a few more colors and finally, you graduated to the big…

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Goodbye July

August 1, 2014 2 Comments

rain drops on hisbicus

Tonight, on this final day of July, I can’t help but find myself with that familiar annual yearning for Autumn.

I’ve said it before. I wonder if God in His infinite wisdom blessed us with seasons, because He knew what fickle creatures we are? More likely, or maybe in addition, it’s because seasons are fine teachers if only we pay attention. And, what a beautiful way to display creation, through the changing backdrops of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Our senses are wonderfully and powerfully assaulted by a bountiful array of scenery and variations of weather.

Spring reminds us of new beginning, fresh chances and newness! Who doesn’t enjoy birdsong, blossoms and butterflies, all abundant in the Spring? Summer comes on the heels of spring, bringing warm sunshine, the smell of freshly cut grass, bluer skies and lots of outdoor family fun.

Just when summer heat is beginning to stifle, my favorite, Autumn, rushes in to bring relief. The air is fragrant, leaves are falling, there is a chill in the air and pumpkins!

Then, as if to close out the chapter and start afresh, winter comes with cold, glistening snow for some, and the dying off of things, only to be re-born come Spring.