Gratitude

Sunlight filtering through the fog! Thank you God for Thanksgiving joys! An enormous bald eagle swooped low and slow directly overhead right at the moment I snapped the above photo. Whoa! That's amazing! Thank you God for Thanksgiving…

I had made a gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free pumpkin pie for our Thanksgiving celebrations.  But in a last-minute moment of great worry that it might not actually be tasty, I decided perhaps we should have an apple pie on…

I was cleaning the ashes out of the firebox yesterday.    As I was doing so, it occurred to me that the ashes are a lot like what is left over from our past.   The ashes are literally what…

Have you ever thought to be grateful for sounds?   To be honest, I haven’t really.   I usually don’t even stop to think about the sounds I’m hearing as I go throughout my day.   I just now got back…

I had just pulled the last few lingering apples from the tree, then headed over to deadhead the mums.   I assumed it would be a day or so before the deer moseyed by.  But no  …  within 10…

Around the beginning of October, I happened across this adorable little ghost while out shopping.   I was smitten  …  and in a moment of impromptu-buying it came home with me.   The reason I liked it so much was…