Dappled Things

GLORY be to God for dappled things…

Category: Ponderings

Returning Home

The girls and I are back from our few weeks with my father. I am doing well and am glad to be back at Will’s side as much as it grieved me to leave my father. And it did, indeed, grieve me. Leaving my father grieved me far more than even my mother’s passing. I [...]

Just a Little While

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 [...]

Lonely Winter Nights

I am sending out a prayer request to those of you out there who are thus minded. I have been having a terrible time trying to sleep and I am not sure why. As many of you may already know, I gravitate towards being a night owl, but I have not been able to sleep [...]

Annoying

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Even So

I have been pretty sad this week.

The Equuschick’s Alphabet Survey

Surveys, surveys, all over the internet. Who makes them, and why, and why can’t The Equuschick, she wanted to know. She could not discover why, and therefore she decided she would entertain herself with such an activity.
Okay, dear Equuschick, I am up for the challenge. Here are my answers:
Favourite Animals: Dogs and Banjos
Favourite Bad [...]

Bereft

It is not an easy thing to lose your mother. Once, when I was three, I lost my mother in a grocery store. I remember looking at a row of canned food and then looking up for my mother and she was gone. She was there and then she was not. I can’t tell you [...]

What A Balm For The Weary

As you may have gathered, I do struggle through the winter months. I have often wondered why we even have to have winter months. Of course, then I must wonder why we have tsunamis or earthquakes or any number of natural occurances we do have on this earth. One could speculate as to the “scientific” [...]

Tommy Can You Hear Me?

Aw, Pete, don’t ruin it for me. The little bit of joy I got over the holidays came from my husband’s kind gift of a new iPod. After placing it into its “force field of protection”, uploading my CDs to it and slipping it into its own cute, little sock, I happily went about listening [...]

Finding Hope

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, no matter how it turns out. ~ Disturbing the Peace, by Vaclav Havel
I like this quote. I will never be an optimist, but I do have hope. [...]