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Thinking About Eagles
I saw one again today, not that uncommon out here; I saw one yesterday, too. But they sure are fascinating. I’ve always loved birds, little birds that come to feed in your yard, big birds, birds of prey – hawks, owls, osprey, eagles. This morning’s message delivered by a guest preacher referenced eagles, too, one…
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An Angry Man
I was screamed at, flipped off – with both hands, no less – and called a name I really hate!! All by a guy with at least three small children watching him and in front of a store employee! Mentioned the incident to my ErinLee and sure enough, a similar thing happened to her…
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LAND OF THE FREE ….
Coming up on the Fourth of July. While it’s not a holiday I’m sentimental about like Easter and Christmas, I’ve been thinking about freedom and bravery. Are you free? Are you brave? The song says we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. I know brave women who’ve fought…
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Short’n’Sweet
Another week has flown by. The weekend with old friends is already a week in the past and the first week of a new adventure is now history! As my Meghan would say, “Holy cats!!” The four days up north were wonderful. Good friends, lots of laughs, fun in the sun and GREAT food. We…
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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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About Those Cows …
Toward the end of the last post I asked if your fences were secure. Now I’m asking, can they ever be secure, really? My belief system says yes, they can, but not because of what I might do. And not necessarily in the way I might think. The farmer who came to corral the cows…
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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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“It Doesn’t Happen in a Neighborhood Like This”
That’s what the neighbor said on TV. Another woman is dead, killed this morning in a nearby county by her husband and people are shocked because it doesn’t happen where they live. Sound familiar? It sure does to me. I’ve been there and even said those words. People in my former neighborhood weren’t out brawling…
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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…