I have no idea where the time went between my last post and this one. I know we went to Atlanta to attend the graduation of a granddaughter. Maybe that was it. Time flew. Suddenly, today I was aware that I have to write, for my turn on the blog is tomorrow!!! Yikes! So, I [...]
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Risking Living Simply
This morning I had some free time and I cleaned out my pantry. I threw away SO many things that were past their date. I remember going to my mother’s house many years ago and she’d have me go through her shelves looking for dates. She couldn’t do this very easily anymore. I remember laughing [...]
Risk Gratefulness
So much has happened in the lives of my son and his wife since she had a massive stroke in February. Their lives were ideal for them. They had a good life, a happy life, a life filled with plans and hopes and dreams as well as good realities they had created for themselves. Then [...]
Risking Hopefulness
My 49 year old, healthy daughter-in-law had a stroke. For a couple of days we weren’t sure she would make it. What a terrible thing a stroke is! It takes a person full of “piss and vinegar” and reduces them to a living person with no personality. I was with my son for a week. [...]
I Feel Pitiful
My sweet daughter, when she was little, used to say, “I feel pitiful. Do you feel pitiful for me?” That’s what I’m saying to you now. I have been sick this week. I hate to be sick – to be made to change my plans in order to do – NOTHING! I have been blessed [...]
Risky Swimming
Happy New Year! I know it’s past the middle of January but it’s the first time I’ve been able to say that to you all. I wish good things for you this year of 2011. I hope it will be a year of good health, happiness, and finding risks to take that will open your [...]
Can I Just Relax?
One week from today will be Christmas day. I remember when I thought it would NEVER be Christmas. Now they come around much too quickly! Have you begun to feel that? While we’ll miss having Laura and her partner with us, the rest of our family will be getting together for Christmas at our house. [...]
A Change of Mind and Heart
Well, my risk from last month didn’t turn out exactly as I had planned. When I told my friends I wouldn’t be coming to the bridge week-end in the spring, you never heard such a uproar. All the while I kept insisting they just go on without me. That just wasn’t going to fly. The [...]
The Bridge Weekend
For a good many years now I have been going away bi-annually for the weekend with a group of women. We get together to play bridge, talk, eat, drink wine and just enjoy each other. The group was started by women who went to the same church in Houston. One of my best friends was [...]
Invisible People
Have you ever noticed how many people around you, as you go along you daily way, are “invisible” people? They are the people who take your order, deliver it to your table, sweep the floor in a restaurant, bus the table, clean the windows, open the door for you as you enter/leave. They are the [...]
