Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life s a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is costly, care for it. Life is wealth, keep it. Life is love, enjoy it. Life is…
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25 Years of Social Distancing Still Looks the Same
Over the last quarter century, when I’ve ventured off the farm it’s usually to the grocery store, the feed store, the post office, the library, the gas station or church. Now that I’ve moved closer to family, include family as well as a yearly vacation. My routine varies in that I may not go to each place each time I…
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Saint Patrick’s Day 2020
Some years back I posted this prayer of Saint Patrick along with this beautiful, poignant photo. The photo isn’t mine; it’s actually a photo of a photo I took at the Cliffs of Moher tourism center. If it’d been for sale, I would have bought it as it touches me deeply. The older I get, the more I understand. These…
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Death, Fire and Water Are Never Satisfied
*my cup today… It’s only the end of February and I’m ready to kick 2020 to the curb. There are several reasons, not the least of which, I’m starting the post again as it disappeared the first time. This year began softly, luring me into a sense of calm but then came the maelstroms. Yes, plural. I am struggling to…
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4 Legal Documents You NEED
Some of you know my story…met Dave in 1989, in 1995 we bought a homestead, moved and were married in the Appy Mtns. We spent the next sixteen years restoring the farm, outbuildings, house and, along the way, turned a solid friendship into a great marriage. In 2010, two weeks out from a trip to Paris where we would board…
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Such a Strange Way…
Do you think Joseph and Mary had their entire lives planned? Do you think they talked about their wedding day, where they would live, how many children they would have, what they would name them? Then God showed up and everything changed. Do you think Mary wanted to be Mary? During New Testament time Nazareth was a small, rather insignificant…
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Shoveling Smoke
Helen is a 91+ year old friend who spends a portion of each day fighting. Yes, you read that correctly…fighting. Helen bought a new, larger vehicle because her contemporaries, for the most part, have stopped driving and voted Helen designated driver. She keeps her car washed, waxed, shiny bright clean much to the delight of a red bird as cardinals…
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The Stockings Are Hung, Winter is Here…
To be sure, at some point in time, store bought stockings were hung at Thistle Cove Farm, but not lately. Lately it’s more the hand knit variety, purchased from far flung places such as Romania, Hungary, Ukraine to be used as “stockings were hung by the chimney with care”. There have been added a child’s pair of socks, red…
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Christmas Season ~ JOY
For a long while I’ve told myself I’m stopping daily, at 4 p.m., and having something to eat and drink. It can be simple – hot or cold tea, decaff coffee, juice, a glass of water or milk but stop and take a break. If I’m going to eat an evening meal, I want it early because I’ve learned the…
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Sabbath Keeping ~ Love Came Down at Christmas
Today, the second Sunday of Advent, reminds us of God’s love for us. “O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but,…
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