Archive for April, 2008
i am…
…the proud daughter of the veteran of three wars; an incredibly patriotic person; a person of a deep, deep, and abiding faith in Jesus; someone who cries every time The National Anthem is played (add an Olympic medal to that mix, and I blubber); someone who flies a flag on the 4th of July. I […]
Read More..>>missing “the days”…
I usually deal with change really well, often embracing it, asking it in for tea, sitting down with it and becoming very-well acquainted in a relatively short amount of time. I guess that is the fancy way of saying it doesn’t take me long to get comfortable with “new and different”. I moved to McMinnville […]
Read More..>>friends are friends forever ~~ but i need her now…
I had one of those “once in a lifetime” kind of friends in my best friend, Shauna. I am still sad and angry that that “lifetime” turned out to be relatively short. I was reminded of all those feelings recently upon hearing someone speak about walking with a friend at the end of that […]
Read More..>>it was like someone took the soul out of the air…
I am watching CNN and they are reviewing some of the notes they’ve received in response to their special on the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A viewer said that he remembered sitting in a coffee shop, being served by his regular waitress, Miss Mary, when a gentleman came running in off the street […]
Read More..>>feelings, woe, woe, woe, feelings…
Grief is such an odd thing. I used to apply it only to death, but I’ve learned that grief is really a process that applies to a lot of life’s situations. We all experience loss in our lives ~ it may take on many forms, but remain, nonetheless, a loss. I am grieving the […]
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