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• Tales from Teddy

  June 28, 2012

      Eventually, sleep comes.     Summer began at Lama's house just like it should.  "Where Chloe?"  Walking through the kitchen, counting chicks as I am want to do, I notice that one tow headed youngin' is missing from the pack of my lounging in t...

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• Pieces of Pretty

  June 14, 2012

      "Mom," she rushes in, "Look what I did, I broke it!"     One huge drop of tear courses down a cheek as pretty girl hands tenderly hold an old Trixie Beldon book, its binding broke and its cover torn asunder.  In her world of 'it must be r...

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• …all things beautiful

  April 7, 2012

      ...You make beautiful things....     The girls were still singing that on the way home.  I love to hear them sing, love the sound of our house when their hearts are light and airy and filled with laughter and hope.  Sometimes, when we're cleaning o...

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• This is my town…

  February 19, 2012

      My county is small town.  Small enough that when we get to the four lane we know we're going to the city, or near the city, or at least somewhere other than small town us.  Not that the city is all that far away, it isn't, but small town people need to have some…

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• A Many Splendid Thing… *Edit* With pic

  February 12, 2012

      In but a brief moment the calm slipped away and chaos entered through the rear truck doors, pushed in behind duffles bags of dirty clothes, one topped with a monkey pillow pet the other with a duck pillow pet, somehow sporting zebra duct taped designs that I was pretty sur...

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• Grin and bear it….

  January 24, 2012

      I didn't have a problem being gullible growing up.  My mom never had to pour warm water over my tongue because some big kid had talked me into licking the metal icetray, I was never convinced to try tasting yellow snow by my brother, nor was I ever the first...

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• Morning Thoughts

  January 10, 2012

      My morning coffee is just black, no nonsense, get the job done coffee.  Later on in the day I may go for a caramel iced coffee to keep the caffiene system running, but no tom foolery this early.  Morning coffee should be coffee that means business - hot enough to open...

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• Whispered prayer…

  December 29, 2011

      *"Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. Now the darkness gathers, Stars began to peep, Birds and beasts and flowers Soon will be asleep."     I knew her when she was little.  Did I ever mention tha...

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• Tis the season…..again

  December 16, 2011

  *Edit*  I wrote this a number of years ago but it remains one of my favorite Christmas blogs.  Love to you all!   Her belly swollen with child, she climbs atop a donkey to start a long journey.  A child by our standards, she follows a path in faith that began so...

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