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Dark Clouds, Silver Linings and Zooms
Today has been a busy day packed with back-to-back appointments. I had a 10:00 a.m. appointment with my healthcare provider, then an 11:00 with my hairdresser. At 1:00 in the afternoon I have a small group meeting to discuss a short course I recently finished. I will try to squeeze a quick lunch in the…
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Healing From The Storms
The day that a major hurricane was making its way across central Florida, I left Jacksonville and headed north to Ohio. I wasn’t exactly evacuating. The people who had done so had intelligently done so quite earlier than that. No, I was headed to my son’s home to help them out as my daughter-in-law was…
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The Seasons for Storms
A storm is headed our way. Again. A real one, not just the proverbial kind. In the interests of transparency, I will state that Helene snubbed her nose at us here in the northeast corner of Florida, leaving us wet and dazed and picking up debris and fallen trees in her wake. Nothing like our…
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Ready for the Fall….
According to the calendar, and multiple social media posts, yesterday was the first day of fall. According to the kids playing in my pool yesterday, it is still summer. That is the quandary of living in Northeast Florida. The popular meme that is recycled year after year asks the question, “It’s Fall in Florida!…
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The Power of the Personal Relationship
Several years ago we happened upon a television show called Alone. Simple title for a simple concept. Contestants are survival experts who are dropped off in harrowing conditions, like extreme remote parts of British Columbia, Patagonia, and Northern Vancouver Island for example, and left to survive on their own with the barest of survival equipment.…
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Purpose to Love: The Greatest Commandment
One of the most unromantic things I’ve ever heard in a marriage seminar was in a session about husbands being commanded to love their wives. The speaker spent way too much time on the word ‘commanded’. His point was that God pretty much ordered men to love their wives, even if they didn’t feel like…
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When We Lose Our Purpose, or Our Purse
Odd things can take place when you decide to clean out a closet. People have their own method of getting it done. For some strange reason, my oldest son’s method involved sitting in the middle of his floor, surrounded by piles of debris, reading books. My daughter’s was rearranging what was in her closet in…
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New Focus
“I can’t see the menu board.” As I uttered these words to my husband at our local barbecue joint, I realized that I was going to have to make an appointment with the optometrist very soon. Clearly my contact prescription needed updating. If I was having trouble reading a sign a mere five feet away,…
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Disillusionment and Illusions
There is a beauty and a danger in this world of social media. I am old enough to remember a world without the internet. Well, without the internet in everyone’s orbit. The more I learn, the more I am aware that things were in the development process well before most of us were aware…
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Life is Ducky
We’ve been traveling for a substantial amount of time, as is evident by my absence from my blog site. My husband and I spent nearly a month in our home state of Washington working on a rental property and visiting with family. While that is both needful and enjoyable, that also means that we…