[Continue reading...]Weekly Photo Challenge: One shot, two ways
August 9, 2013 7 Comments
It’s a bad day, not a bad life
August 8, 2013 5 Comments
The alarm woke me up angrily as if to say there is no time to spare, not another blink of sleep is to occur on my watch! The door reached out to clobber me in the side of my head as I dragged a less than cooperative body to the bathroom. The water was cold […]
[Continue reading...]Shuffling a little slower now
August 3, 2013 11 Comments
They walked out of CVS together, cars impatiently waiting for them to make their way slowly through the crosswalk. I watched the struggle with empathy, silently imagining what their long history together might have entailed. They both approached the car and she slowly and carefully got in the passenger side. He opened the driver’s side […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow
August 2, 2013 1 Comment
Foreshadow: A warning or indication of a future event. The familiar sound of the reel shortly after my husbands bait hit the water, indicated that a fish would soon be in the boat and a little later, on my plate.
[Continue reading...]Deposits in our children
August 1, 2013 Leave a Comment
As I look back on the past 47 years of my life, I am convinced that of all of the lives I have touched, the biggest impact has been on my children. Knowing this, I contemplate the failures which sometimes seemed as plentiful as the successes. For this, I can promise, you will fail at […]
[Continue reading...]The ripple
July 30, 2013 7 Comments
When I took the picture of this duck, I caught myself looking at the ripples. It never ceases to amaze me how that if we let God’s creation teach us, it never fails. There is a lesson in every scene. As the duck paddled its legs beneath him, the water rippled out revealing motion. […]
[Continue reading...]Vultures of the human variety
July 24, 2013 2 Comments
Several times a week I walk, at least a 2 mile stretch, sometimes more. Today was my “lunch walk” so I only had 30 minutes and was determined to make it count. I was clipping along at a rapid pace, my body already on melt down alert from the blistering FL sun, when I smelled […]
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Long walks and dark chocolate 