Miscellany
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Father’s Day
On Father’s Day, the girls wanted to take their dad to the wetland we visited last week. We were greeted by this little guy. Grandfather Frog eyed us skeptically as we made our…
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Oriole Bath
This Baltimore oriole took a dip in the creek behind my parents’ house yesterday. What a show!
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Wet Wanderings
We’ve had clouds and showers over the last few days, but I’ve tried to resist my impulse to hide inside. On Sunday I went for a walk all by myself. A rare happening…
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The Love Exchange
There’s more to prayer than petition. Most of us know this. But how good are we at cultivating the other elements of prayer? How persistent? How comfortable? Twice lately, I’ve read of the…
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Getting there
I swore I wouldn’t post any more bird photos for awhile. I actually have some homeschooling posts in mind, and a couple of books I’m reading that I’d like to share. But today…
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Early morning bike ride
I have two very happy memories of being on a bike as a child. In the first, I was about 4 years old, sitting on my tricycle on the front sidewalk. It had…
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Seeds
We planted some lettuce, beans, and peas today. Tomorrow we’ll put in cucumber and tomato plants, and some kohlrabi, and hope for the best. It was hot — in the 90’s. In other…
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Spilling out the lego box
I have several things bouncing around in my head this morning. Here are some of them, with no connective tissue other than that they’re all bouncing on the same court. Or how about…
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Speaking the Truth in Love: A Re-Post
I woke up thinking about this post from the past, and wondering: can you “speak the truth in love” in a public forum? I am not sure. Maybe you can. Certainly you can…
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“Christian” response to error
There has been so much derision directed at Harold Camping that I found this response to be refreshing. I’m not someone who believed the world would end on Saturday. And as has been…