I’m me, God. l never rise above being myself. ~ Joanne A game of make-believe has lasted many years… Since sitting under the dining-room table before the evaporative cooler, a towel on shoulders to imagine the blizzard… Playtime where stories […]
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Do Not Hurry!
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Commend all to God, and then lie still and be at […]
Continue reading »A GI’s Gift
Olive drab is basic pain, endless hikes in drizzling rain. Blue is Christmas TDY, raucous joy so I won’t cry. Red courage stains on desert sands, youth drained out in cruel lands, white-knuckled fear, all fossilize this PFC with gaping […]
Continue reading »Are you Standing in Your Sunshine?
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Do you get in your own way? Do you block yourself off from sunshine? Do you direct your attention to others’ lives […]
Continue reading »The Innkeeper’s Christmas Eve
Twas the night before Christmas, and all up and down there were bone-weary travelers in Bethlehem town. The stern edict had gone out from Caesar himself, each man should return now to pay from his wealth. To their ancestors’ hometown they each must now go […]
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