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A Time to Mourn … Part One
Note: I began drafting this post a few days after the passing of another of the Homestead’s children, my aunt/godmother. I’d like to expand on it now and honor her memory. A time to mourn and a time to dance; that’s the complete phrase. Not an original title by any means, but so appropriate. Another…
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The Cows Got Out!
I’ve been away from this blog for awhile and it’s time to be back. Lots has occurred since Easter ’09, some okay and some fabulous!! Some pretty major Sparkles especially this last week. And the cows did indeed get out, today, in fact, though that seems like a metaphor for the last few months. How…
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There Was a Time …..
There was a time when the night before Ash Wednesday would have my attention more for what was happening at Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Rio than for any spiritual meaning. Tonight is different. I’ve had an interesting week and am feeling very blessed! I was given insight into a situation that had been…
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Smiling at this Lenten Memory
Who knew when deciding to embark on the next 30 days to leaving the Shoulds and an Illegitimate Ruler behind that it would coincide beautifully with Lent? Well, Someone knew and ya gotta love how these things work out 🙂 So my Lenten journey it will be. I’ve never been one to “give something up…
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The Tyranny of Should
You should go … You shouldn’t …. I should… I should have …. A loaded word, one syllable, indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate. So the subject, in this case moi, has an obligation to do whatever follows the should. How does that work? Who’s deciding…
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What’s in a Word?
A quick peruse of Roget’s online Thesaurus gives many synonyms for the word hopeful. My favorite? There are several, but blithe and buoyant just kind of roll off the tongue. I love words and languages, and words, as I am known for saying, matter. And frankly, I’ve been witnessing some challenges with words. Are the…
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Gaining Ground
I’m still playing catch-up from the weekend misfortunes, but at least I’m playing. I definitely had an attitude challenge going and thankfully, have moved through it. My house is almost normal, though my ears are tuned to the on/off cycles of the furnace and I”m less than completely unpacked. But my truck is running and…
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Welcome Home, so they say, anyway…
An eventful weekend. First of all, I didn’t leave South Carolina Friday night on my scheduled flight. There was an airline issue and my choices were stay with Meghan and leave Saturday morning or leave Friday night later, miss my connection to Green Bay and spend the night at O’Hare. Hmmm, wonder what I chose?…
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I Won’t Do It …..
No, I won’t, I will not title this nor will I think in terms of how many hours are left before I get on a plane and head for home. I just am not ready to think about my time here with Meghan coming to an an end. So I will focus on the…
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Jump Out of the Boat!!
As mentioned earlier, we attended a great church, Seacoast Church, just blocks from Meghan’s apartment, on Christmas Eve, and then a satellite campus in Mount Pleasant on the weekend. The young preacher had a great message and I have two points scribbled in large letters on a piece of paper that were made during the…