Virtual Learning and the Lessons I learned in 2020: Two recurring lessons from 2020 will carry over into 2021: Learn to live with disappointment – gratefully You have a lot left to learn, princess! The trick has been to stay teachable, because I am seasoned citizen....
First: I am glad I have updates from the porch! I am grateful for so much — even change -- which is as disconcerting as ever. Second, I [still] have NO idea where time is going. (Time Flies) I bet you don’t either if you are a seasoned citizen! (LOL) The clock...
Two editorial headlines this morning captured why I often feel so wobbly nowadays: Homeless Encampments No Longer Tolerated and A Wonder to Behold. It’s ironic, isn’t it — what we can do with such precision in space; yet what we have failed to do time and again on...
I was so nervous that Doug might stumble, I surprised myself when I missed the curb . . . again. Sigh. I wacked my shin, skinned the old knee, and shook myself up pretty good. Not to mention Doug. Nothing broken — just shaken — I can hold a paint brush and a cup...
I am starting 2022 with a clean dining table. Note: in a few hours this will be a mess again. The dining room table is both our work spaces. But for now, it is tidy, and I read a little “devotion” about gratitude even — especially when life presses in. Peering down...
When I looked, it was clear a Christmas cactus was brilliantly blooming despite me! Oh! it was better than a Christmas card! Throughout the year I barely kept it watered; yet out it popped— blooming its fool head off. One of our two Christmas cactuses is blooming...
When Netflix and Prime on our TV went kaput, we felt as if bereft of good friends who helped us cope when the news got weird. Netflix and Prime have been good friends these past twenty-one months; they have distracted and calmed us, often providing ample walks down...
In these times of increasing powerlessness to change anything more than a light bulb, I catch my self wringing my emotional hands — What can I do? What can I say? Not much . . . Take my advice, I'm not using it … bumper sticker That’s the soil beneath the surface...
I never thought that when the Lord was talking about “End-Times" and the tribulation His people would experience — troubles unmatched from the beginning of the world — that it might be simply living in a time similar to that of the times of Judges: In those days...
I wondered aloud if today would be the day, I would take the Christmas tree down. Then, I went on to wonder other things. No sense thinking too long and hard about something that is not happening! Doug agreed. He wondered if somehow the dining room table might be,...
Looking back over last year’s journal entries and blog posts, I was blissfully UNAWARE of what was barreling our way.* Doug wasn’t. He bought the last gallon of hand sanitizer in the drug store, and ordered masks and gloves by the end of January February 2020 Then,...
Waiting for Access As access to the COVID vaccine becomes a possibility, and more and more friends report that they have received theirs, nervous hope flickers. We signed up with two hospitals and the county health department — leaving the timing up to the Lord....
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