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Geranium Whispers
On this rainy Friday morning, I bustled around the house, opening window shades. The clouds were thick and the house was gloomy, so I eagerly coaxed the weak light that penetrated the clouds inside for a visit. When I opened the shades to the patio, the blossoms of an...
Working and Playing in the Land of Make-Believe
This morning, when I poured skuggly, slimy green water from my rainbucket into my flowerpots, the overwhelming sense of playing at life assaulted me. This sensation is nothing new. Those who knew me way back when can vouch for my perpetual citizenship in the land of...
Not My Best Day
Today has not been my best day. I got up bright and early to start the wash. As I hung the last piece of laundry on the clothesline, it began to rain. Thinking it would only take an hour, I organized the snake pit of cords and electronic devices in my office, record...
Sheer Torture
For most of my life, August has been a torturous month, and not just because of the almost unbearable heat and humidity that makes the corn in these parts grow while the people wilt. For my sixteen years as a student and my twenty-five years as a teacher, it marked...
The Trouble with the Daughter
For years, “the trouble with the daughter” has been a family catch phrase. I don’t recall where it originated, maybe in a movie or a book. But every now and then, it pops into a conversation, more a squawk than a sentence - “The trouwble with the dauwghter” - which...
Building Unity
As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God... so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. I Peter 4:10 - 11...