What in the World Happened? When you look at my unbreakable glass, you have to wonder what happened to shatter it so. How many times did I drop it before its innards splintered? In some ways, there is a kind of beauty – and symmetry. Doug thinks with the cracks it...
Fairy tales are full of inconvenient truths, like pride and arrogance bring unexpected consequences. It’s time to start reading them again! Fairy tales convey many scary truths. For example, The Little Mermaid learned a hard lesson; so did the Fisherman and His Wife. ...
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....
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....
Countdown Christmas, as we have known its celebration, is on hold. None of the usual holiday hoopla is diminishing my charm this year! Of course, I’ve had to forego the grumpy personal commentary on how commercial Christmas has become. Well, thanks to COVID-19, I get...
You’d better brace yourself, today, I tell myself as I strap on a well-used back brace. Of course, the old back isn’t the only thing that needs a bit of support these days. In an autumn’s garden there’s always an occasion to give myself a pep talk, or ask a cautionary...
Advent is a liturgical time of preparation; a season to get myself ready to celebrate a birthday – the birth of Christ the Lord. It begins Sunday, November 29 . . . in the 2020 Pandemic So, out came my Christmas Album by John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers. Few...
Thanksgiving 2020 and the Twilight Zone Thanksgiving in 2020 reminds me of episodes in the Twilight Zone when the astronauts, recognizably American, found themselves on foreign planets, in quarters remarkably like ones they knew on earth. Just a few details were...
I am grateful and worried. I am grateful that the death rate from COVID is falling. But, the virus is roaring around our country -- no, THE WORLD – like wildfires, hurricanes, and murder hornets. (See the Johns Hopkins U numbers.) So, I remain worried. In the past...
Common Sense Memes Some truths I find through Facebook Memes -- resonate common sense and courtesy. It’s usually easier to post them on social media and get a bunch of likes than it is to actually put them into practice. One of My Favorite Memes Life is hard enough....
A bee flew into a spider web, and this has no punch line. Never had I seen such a sight: a bumblebee caught in a nearly invisible gossamer spider web. The spider web was nearly invisible. The struggle was not. The bee thrashed about as the white spider—1/8 its...
I learned a lesson through today’s Facebook follies. Ask questions, look for answers and be careful whom you quote! Reading memes that my friends post now takes the place of reading newspaper headlines. Sometimes they are just as snarky, and about as reliable, anyway....
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