Monday, September 12, 2022
Which Do I Like Best?
Nature is to music what the azure sky is to white clouds, what apple pie is to a scoop of vanilla ice cream, what ice cubes are to lemonade on a hot summer day. Nature makes me sing, even sometimes a song I make up as I go along, a song just for me....and to God who knows all about nature and He...
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Sunday, September 11, 2022
Early Sunday Morning
There's an owl around here (maybe more than one) who hoots continuously for a long time in the early morning when it is a cloudy, dark, damp, rainy, cool morning. I'm not sure whether he likes it a lot, or if he hates it and is protesting. This is the coolest morning we have had yet this season. He...
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Friday, September 9, 2022
The Ways of Life
There is beauty even on sad days. The sun rises, and the sun sets, and all things in between, whether good or bad, make our being what it is. We give thanks and praise the Lord, or we moan and groan and complain. We smile or we frown, we laugh or we cry, we worry or we sing, but the day goes on from...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Five Miles Away
It can be nothing if you have a car, that five miles--just a matter of minutes. But, if one has no transportation--no car, no driver, no smart-phone to call a cab, no money to pay for one, it can seem like a million miles away. Most people I know, are doing fine. They have a place to live, a job,...
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Monday, September 5, 2022
The End of the US Navy
Well, I've been writing about Ribcage and the US Navy since the 4th of July and this is Labor Day in September....that's every day (plus or minus one or two) for two months. I have loved remembering, but enough is enough. This is the last one even though he still had a year more of service aboard...
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