View from the sheepfold
Autumn Poem
AUTUMN POEM When songbirds flock together, Preparing for southward flight, And shorter days spread darkness Into longer nights, The wind blows pinecones from the trees While acorns plunk to earth, And frisky squirrels hop to and fro Hoarding food for winter’s dearth....
Do It Now or Later?
Fight Procrastination Day! There's really a day set aside for this? Procrastinate. Do you? Procrastinate, I mean. If you’re like me, there are times when you put off or delay, or absolutely neglect, doing something you have to do or should be doing. Procrastination...
Up and Away!
Before the pandemic, we missed the Susquehanna Balloon Festival because we went out of town for our granddaughter’s birthday. After being cancelled for two years, it resumed this year a week earlier, so my husband and I attended. The weather couldn’t have been better:...
Cloud Watching
CLOUD WATCHING - A PHOTOJOURNEY Clouds aren't what they seem from down below. We can't really walk on them, nor are they cottony soft as they appear when we look up at them. Clouds aren't permanent; they come and go. I'm a cloud watcher, and I enjoy photographing...
“SAY IT WITH FLOWERS”
“SAY IT WITH FLOWERS” Floriography, the language of flowers, became popular during the Victorian era. Many kinds of messages were sent via flowers. In fact, floriography became so complicated that dictionaries were created to explain the meaning of floral “gifts.”...
Family Reunions, In-Laws, and Celebrations
A Time to Remember One of my fond childhood memories is of our vacations in Rhode Island, where we visited my parents’ families. A family reunion with my father’s very large extended family highlighted most of those vacations. As the youngest of six siblings, I looked...
Book Characters and a Birthday
If there’s a bad boy in A Heart’s Journey, it’s Derek Hall. Good-looking and charming (when he wants to be), he’s a bully, and Haleigh had been one of his victims in high school. The former football star of Greenlawn High School was the drunk driver responsible for...
Friend or Foe?
Meet More Characters from A Heart's Journey Have you ever met someone for the first time, and they already have something against you, but you don’t know what it is? TIA Tia Merino works for Willie White at Floral Creations. I don't have a photo of Tia, but I imagine...
Traveling with Friends
Meet Some Friends from A Heart's Journey When you look up the meaning of “journey,” you’ll probably find it described as traveling from one place to another, or something similar. We may take many kinds of journeys in a lifetime, depending on who we are, where we...
God’s Unfailing Promises
When God makes a promise, He follows through because He’s faithful and trustworthy. (Lamentations 3:23;1 Corinthians 1:9) As a child, I received Jesus Christ as my Savior, believing that He died and rose again to pay for my sins and give me eternal life. “For God so...
Discipline Your Heart and Mind
Self-control/Temperance I was born with a sweet tooth and have struggled for all my adult life to curb my appetite for sweets and chocolate to control my weight and maintain a healthy body. As an author, I find it easy to succumb to the distractions that are...
A Meek and Quiet Spirit
A Meek and Quiet Spirit Meek describes at least two important people in the Bible: Moses and Jesus. The NKJV uses the word humble about Moses in Numbers 12:3, and gentle about Jesus in Matthew 11:29. “Meekness” is translated “gentleness” in modern translations. Often...
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