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Back Home Again ~ 2022
Back Home Again ~ 2022
I think I understand the impulse that some people have to kneel and kiss the ground, in reverence, in joy, or profound gratitude, as one who thought they would never touch the ground again, drifting in the air, in space, at sea, or on foreign soil, or as one who knows each day is a gift but not a given. I do not do this thing, kneel on the beach and brush my lips against tiny grains of sand, do…
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Home Again ~ My Cup Runneth Over
Home Again ~ My Cup Runneth Over
Four years ago I was able to visit my hometown for the first visit since 1994, and only a second since 1973. Because I had moved away and left home behind, I did not think it was possible to become suddenly homesick. My thought was to do a brief revisit, take a lot of pictures that I could put in an album, store in my heart, and perhaps frame a few to hang on the wall. It was to be like a rock…
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My September Reading
#Whatsonyourbookshelfchallenge My husband and I are both readers. That is not necessarily something I knew about him during our brief courtship, because it was so brief, but it is a practice I have come to value, even after thirty five years of marriage. I am fortunate that he is such a reader, because being married to a reader when you yourself are not a reader, well, one could easily feel left…
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My Beach Baby
Sunday Beach 🏖 Day! Saltwater & sunshine ☀️ ⛱ makes everything better 🥰😎🥰
On Writing (Part I)
On Writing (Part I)
I was raised on stories, the stories my mother told me, the books she introduced me to, and of course the stories that I saw on television and movies. Stories have long been my pleasant diversion. But it was my teacher’s response to a composition that I wrote in ninth grade that began my love of writing.
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Just as friendship is an important prelude to…
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Unexpected Blessings ~ Part I
Unexpected Blessings ~ Part I
More Than I Could Have Wished For
In the Spring of 2018, months before my retirement, I accepted an invitation to travel from my home in Pennsylvania to Maine, to perform a wedding for the relative of two of my parishioners. I would have done the wedding anyway, was honored to be invited, and had no problem traveling to Maine to do it; I would be retired after all, and had lots of time.
The…
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