I AM READY...
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
I am ready for a NEW YEAR, ready to move on...haven't had much to celebrate this year it seems, and sure hopeful that 2009 brings brighter days and QUIETER nights my way.
Perhaps i just had TOO MUCH in December and it's catching up with me. Feeli...
Perhaps i just had TOO MUCH in December and it's catching up with me. Feeli...
GOOD BY BABY SISTER
posted over 3 years ago | 5 comments
Yesterday morning my precious 55 year old baby sister, JOAN LENORE CONFER PARKS, went HOME to HEAVEN ! I am HAPPY that she no longer is tied to a bed by ALS, no longer unable to eat, walk, talk or draw her wonderful aniamls...but I have lost half ...
Restarting A Life
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
i have been noticing so much lately that there is much loneliness and uncertainty in the world...Divorce or Death pays a visit and you are suddenly alone...Hey, wait, this is not how I planned my life, I didn't ask for this... What will I do ??? H...
FAMILY
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
My son and daughter-in-law have both been sick for a week, with bad colds !! Yesterday as I gave Carol yet another bowl of chicken noodle soup, she said,"Grammy, do you ever just get sick and tired of taking care of us?"
I told her no because i l...
I told her no because i l...
To My Grandchildren
posted over 4 years ago | 2 comments
Today, your Great Aunt Joan is 55... Great Aunt Joan who has never forgotten one of your birthdays or let Christmas go by without sending you a gift... Great Aunt Joan who is now mostly bed-ridden and has no hope of ever seeing her own grandaughte...
The Rock Garden
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
The year 2000 was not my favorite and then the day before Thanksgiving I lost my job !! Knew it was coming, but had hoped to work until after Christmas. Filed for unemployment and tried to think of it as a sort of paid vacation, after all, for the...
LONELINESS
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
Who escapes feeling this way from time to time ? and some i think is only natural as we age, every day it seems as if someone we once knew is taken from this earth- and we have to confront our own mortality over and over again !! Now we have a cho...
Personal Creed
posted over 4 years ago | 2 comments
When I was joining the Presbyterian Church in the town I grew up in, we were asked to write and read OUR CREED- so in reflecting on that this evening I thought I'd write my CREED FOR LIFE :
I believe in forgiveness- in forgiving those who have do...
I believe in forgiveness- in forgiving those who have do...
Being over 50
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
I never imagined when I was younger, how much I'd enjoy being over 50 !! I can remember a time when I figured that people over 50 were just a step from DEAD- when I turned 30, I spent the entire day in bed, sick to death that my 20's were gone and...
Almost Summer
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
Summer will be here soon, according to the calendar on the wall- another summer to enjoy the warmth that GOD sends for us, all the growing things outside to feed my soul - the business of life continues and at times it can be difficult to move on ...
