. . . and to you this day . . .

“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” ~ L.M. Montgomery

Some days the lessons just keep coming… This morning I rise early, I have a birthday cake to make.  There was a time when my kids were younger, I spent considerable time making elaborate birthday cakes the night before.  But…
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Too many cool rainy days In a row can start to wear a person low last night I go to bed feeling a little less than civil consequently my sleep is disturbed and this morning once again the dog decides…
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I have a very strong aversion to the telephone. If you know me, possibly you already know this. Really if it didn’t sound rude, my voicemail message would say – don’t call me, because I probably won’t call you ……
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I think I sit too much. I wake up thinking about all of the things I need to accomplish, Number two son has returned from university with a gargantuan bag of laundry, to add to the rather large pile of…
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I have taken an involuntary vow of silence stricken with a nasty little virus that seems to be resting rather uncomfortably on my voice box forcing me to whisper out squeaky little noises and irritating wisps of air also with…
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Friday, it’s my day off and as it happens it’s Good Friday.  It is not however my husband’s day off, just a factor of the industry he works in.  So around 6:00 am-ish one side of the bed feels empty…
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A fresh spring morning, a little cloud, a little sun but I don’t think I’ll be in the garden today, because my finger won’t straighten and my arm feels twisted, achy and sore Outside my window the forsythia blooms in…
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This morning when I look out even though the calendar reads April 7th yesterday’s visions of spring have suddenly all been blanketed in white a rather raucous wind is whipping up a frenzy in the garden while we wait for…
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“I dwell in possibility…”  ~ Emily Dickinson “Courage dear heart”  (from The Voyage of The Dawn Treader) by C. S. Lewis,   I have always felt that these are the words of my heart, and in so many ways they are,…
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