A Very Nearly Wordless Wednesday
As homeschooled students, my girls wouldn’t normally have a homecoming dance to attend, but every year their public-schooled friends from church thoughtfully invite them. They always go as a group and that makes me feel a little better about the situation. This was Clara’s first homecoming dance. She was very excited [...]
A Very Nearly Wordless Wednesday
“The Shadow People”
Old lame Bridget doesn’t hear
Fairy music in the grass
When the gloaming’s on the mere
And the shadow people pass:
Never hears their slow grey feet
Coming from the village street
Just beyond the parson’s wall,
Where the clover globes are sweet
And the mushroom’s parasol
Opens in the moonlit rain.
Every night I hear them call
From their [...]
A Very Nearly Wordless Wednesday
What is it?
It’s Clara’s own springtime perfume concoction.
God’s Will
I know, I know where violets blow
Upon a sweet hillside,
And very bashfully they grow
And in the grasses hide—
It is the fairest field, I trow,
In the whole world wide.
One spring I saw two lassies go,
Brown cheek and laughing eye;
They swung their aprons to and [...]
“Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.”
Mason Cooley
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A Very Nearly Wordless Wednesday
“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
Publius Syrus (42 B.C.), Maxim 914
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February 2, 1939 – January 29, 2007
I wanted to let everyone know that my mother passed from this world to be with her Father in heaven yesterday morning. I thank all of you who wrote to say you were praying for her and for those who didn’t write, but were praying anyway. Please pray for [...]
This is what a bad dog does when you think that he is too short to jump up on a very tall bed.
I signed up for a “Secret Sister” through Training Hearts and got my first care package in the mail Saturday. At first, I thought the package must be for the entire month of February, but now I am not sure since everything was wrapped up in one box. When I opened the package that came [...]
Apparently, the “wild things” grow in my yard.
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