• Happiness,  Life,  Spiritual

    God, Grace & Gratitude Gets the Focus

    You’ve probably seen this picture before if you are not new to the blog. I saw it in my photos and decided it was a perfect focus for this period of time in my life, and also for the start of this blog post. Each week is a struggle for me, a battle. As a person who feels too much and pushes it down (or writes about it), and a person who analyzes too much (and still doesn’t come up with an answer for life), and a person who seeks joy, but rarely finds it (because of the previous two things), I find that this simple quote brings me peace.…

  • Family,  Life,  Psyche,  Self-Help,  Uncategorized

    Successes and Failures, The Hostess Dance, and In the Ruts of Life

    So, we spent our Saturday yesterday with Mom. The main purpose was to get some pictures hung up. Quite a few were hung but we didn’t get finished as we also wanted to get her out of the house some. We took her to eat lunch and to buy groceries. And we went to Lowe’s to buy more hanging materials, cleaning materials, and Mom wanted to see a sun shade for the deck and so forth. I guess our day was a concoction of both successes and failures. Success: Several pictures were hung Failure: It seems like not near enough Success: Lunch was absolutely wonderful Failure: We had to wait…

  • Uncategorized

    Friday Morning Thoughts on COVID-19 through Coffee and Music!

    So it’s Friday and that brings a source of glee that the other days do not. Right now Friday’s and sleep are “where it’s at“. Oh, Friday’s and Sleep and Weekends, can’t forget those. And the coffee sure is good this morning. So Day 2 of the Social Media experiment. I didn’t miss it at all and really didn’t even think about it. The only time I thought about it was when I saw the red numbers on my phone building. I have 152 notifications and 3 Instant Messages all unread and unlooked at. No bother. Nothing I’m itching to get back to. My mind is a little blank right…