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Blue This has been a year of blue, at least for me.  It reminds me of that time right before dawn, when everything is monochromatic and looks almost the same.  We have battled the blues on every level– from missing…
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New Beginnings There is something inherently exciting about something new.  It brings a new awareness to everything around us– as if we see the world for the first time in high definition color.  We get a new car, and suddenly…
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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly.” — C.S. Lewis Blue Christmas Christmas and childhood are…
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Shop Talk   I remember it well– those times that we spent– My grandpa and I, as the afternoons went. The shop smelled like diesel and oil and fuel. He had careful labels for every tool. The floor was swept…
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Do You Remember Bev and Peg were sisters.  They had lived together all their lives, like two little elves, in the little green house they were born in.  Their home was a most magical place. Both of the sisters were…
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Learning to Cook Someone asked me one day, “How did you learn to cook?” I stopped and thought about that for a moment. “What’s the matter?” she chuckled.  “Don’t you know?” “Oh I know,” I answered, “But it’s not a…
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Every year at Apple Butter season, my mind remembers the taste of it– the warm, rich, caramelized taste of apple butter stirred outside over an open fire, with the scarlet leaves falling in the last symphony of the season before…
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