Quote: Change

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller

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Feral Cats

Photo by HiggySTFC
I’m known as a big softie when it comes to animals. While I limit the amount I have in my home (I am, after all, allergic to fur), I still want to help animals I see.
Last summer I saw a black cat wandering through my back yard. I did a double-take, thinking one [...]

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Quote: Inconvenience

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

G. K. Chesterton

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More gratitude

As my husband recovers from his accident, I have more to be grateful for:

My client for providing numerous dinners, snacks and supplies
The church members who provided dinners, snacks and desserts
Steve, Martha and Rosa for sitting with my husband to both give me a break and allow me to complete obligations
My father-in-law, who flew in for [...]

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Quote: Behavior

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

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A Giant Thank You

I guess it’s not time to do a comprehensive list of thank yous, but I have a few to send out.
My husband fell 15 feet from a ladder last Saturday. He’s out of the ICU, but still in the hospital. Here are some of the people I wish to publicly thank:

The 911 dispatcher who held [...]

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Light and Dark

Photo by ccgdAs we are winding down the season of light, I started reflecting out the return of light as the planet tips the northern hemisphere toward the sun again. We don’t often remember this, but if we didn’t know darkness, we wouldn’t know what light is.
It’s something to think about.

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