Everything’s Going My Way….and A Living Eulogy

The last three months or so?  We’ll call that “uncomfy grace”.  Mainly because the Almighty seemed to have plans He wasn’t filling me in on.  Except?  Except to say…”Be still.  Sit still.  Shhhh.”  I’d start to shred paper like a hamster and find myself compelled to do something, do anything but just sit still, for …

Grace, simply

My girl naps peaceful beyond the window just behind me and I sit outside on my “porch in the trees” listening to the summer sounds; the humming bug thingies that I don’t know what to call that drone and fade out and drone again?  Those.  It’s a gift this porch, this time unclaimed.  I should …

Headlines in my Heart

Chattanooga, Tennessee: 5th Service Member Dies After Thursday ShootingPierce City, Missouri: Police Find Missing Woman After Endangered Person Advisory Issued Zoey Tur: Transgender Journalist Gets Into Heated Exchange With Breitbart Senior Editor Ben Shapiro Susan Rice: National Security Adviser Says She Expects Iran to Spend New Money on Military Wrightwood, California: 100-Acre Wildfire Near Campgrounds …

I Don’t Ever Want to be Okay Again or; Tomorrow I Turn 57

Shook up right good.  That’s what my 56th year’s been.  Nothing.  And, by that,  I .mean. nothing….is what I had in mind.  I sensed a year of change ahead, for sure.  I had no idea what that meant.  Here’s what it meant.  Two more of my six kids joined the one already gone and ended up far, …