Month: January 2007
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from the mouths of three year olds
“Oh, that’s so cute,” Tabithah tells me… “… I wish I had one of those.” “I wish this whooooole house was mine,” Tab says, her face a centimeter away from mine. “Even your room.” “What would you do with it all?” I ask her. “I would have forty beds, probably,” she answers. “What would you…
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happy birthday, Robbie Burns!
But tent me, Davie, Ace o’ Hearts!(To say aught less wad wrang the cartes, And flatt’ry I detest)This life has joys for you and I;And joys that riches ne’er could buy; And joy’s the very best.There’s a’ the Pleasures o’ the Heart, The Lover an’ the Frien’;Ye hae your Meg, your dearest part, And I…
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every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end
It’s been a full, good year. Full of life, though death has touched us more than once. Full of love, though there have been frustrations and misunderstandings and times of getting off course. Full of God… always full of God. One of my “discoveries” this year has been the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, so…