Suddenly a SWAN!

“Just in front of him he saw three beautiful white swans advancing towards him from a thicket . . . . ‘I will fly to them, the royal birds, and they will hack me to pieces . . . .  But it won’t matter.  Better to be killed by them than be snapped at by [...]

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A dear old “friend” needs help!

An item in today’s paper highlighted a situation I’ve known about for years:  the United States Postal Service is in dire straits.  According to the article I read, within the next 15 years postal delivery will probably be reduced to 3 days per week out of financial necessity.  The decline of my faithful old “friend”, the U. S. [...]

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The Things That Sustain . . .

NOTE:  I’ve finally updated my “Paintings and Poems” page on this site. Nearly every week I read over the back pages of my blogs, where the stats are listed.  On these pages I learn which entries were most frequently read, the search terms used to arrive at my blogs, the number of viewers each day and week, etc.  The [...]

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More indoor gardens, a paparazzi success, and other resident creatures!

Just inside the door from our snowy patio, more gardens thrive:  one on a vintage trunk which I decoupaged with wild west art and cattle brand-type symbols, and the other on a pie crust table.  Both trunk and table were unearthed at rummage sales in Price County, Wisconsin. The trunk features beloved African violets, overseen by a [...]

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A Tribute to Edith Schaeffer . . . and to a Good Friend!

The saying that books are friends is so eternally true, that it cannot be labeled “an old saw”!  More times than I can count, books have come through where people have goofed. As a new Christian, 39 years ago, I was catapulted into a foreign-to-me culture.  Although I now held the deeper answers to life in Scripture, some questions concerning lifestyle [...]

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“Isms” . . . “as old as the hills”

Every idiosyncrasy and flaw of man has been around since the fall of Adam and Eve.  Perhaps it’s only in recent history, that we’ve tagged these flaws.  Now we have a variety of “isms”.  I’ve just learned a tag for one more fallen viewpoint–”ageism”:  the lack of respect for, and typecasting of, individuals who are mature in age.  Actually, this deviation [...]

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