Every Thursday, an online group of which I’m a part, has Thankful Thursday, something instituted by yours truly in an attempt to bring some balance to the litany of shared woes. Don’t get me wrong. Sharing these woes and asking for prayer is part of what this group does and we are privileged to do so, but it’s far too easy to get into a woe-is-me frame of mind and never think of the many blessings in our lives. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘musing’
Thankful Thursday and the errant email
Posted: March 14, 2013 in Friends, Miscellaneous, Musings, PersonalTags: blessings, chance, divine intervention, email, fate, friends, happenstance, miscellaneous, misdelivered email, misdirected email, musing, personal, Thankful Thursday
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Brent Musberger “scandel”? What are we thinking?
Posted: January 13, 2013 in Miscellaneous, Musings, Sports, You've got to be kidding!Tags: attitudes toward women, beauty, beauty pagents, Brent Musberger, Californication, compliments, emasculation of men, ESP, ESPN, football, Hugh Hefner, miscellaneous, Miss Alabama, musing, national championship game, sex, sports, Two And a Half Men, women, you've got to be kidding
If you watched the recent college football national title game (or just read headlines), you know that during the game, Brent Musburger praised the beauty of the girlfriend of the Alabama quarterback when the camera focused on her. From an article by Dean Obeidallah at http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/09/opinion/obeidallah-musburger-comments/index.html: (more…)
For my daughers…and perhaps yours, too
Posted: October 20, 2012 in Family, Memories, Musings, PersonalTags: A mom's words to her daughters on the occassion of growing up, abstinence, beliefs, Christianity, daughers, family, life, marriage, memories, mothers, mothers and daughters, musing, personal, sex, sex before marriage, What I want to say to my daughers
Sorting, packing (and sometimes tossing) almost 28 years worth of things in the attic, I come across a box of memorabilia from high school, college and my year backpacking through Europe. I read the letters and cards I’ve kept, bringing smiles to my face and often laugh aloud, look at the pictures and remember. (more…)
Five haiku
Posted: August 21, 2012 in Family, Memories, Musings, Nature, Personal, Poetry, WordsTags: family, haiku, Love, memories, musing, Nature, outdoors, personal, poetry, words
Sitting on the porch
In a red shirt, drinking tea
Hummingbird zooms close
We walk hand in hand
By the calm lake in moonlight
Ankles scratched by grass
In my heart’s eye you
Are still young, running swiftly
On the rugby pitch
We lie on our backs
Seeing shapes in the clouds
The wind blows gently
Fireflies blinking
Above the lawn in the dark
Childhood memories
