Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

A Sunday posting. What’s that about? Well – as you know, I haven’t posted since last Tuesday and apologize for that. You readers have been most faithful in still coming by in my few days’ absence from here. Thank you. I hope you took the opportunity to read back through some of my older posts [...]

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You know I often let my mom “speak” here through my “View From the 80s” posts because she has such wisdom, insight and big sense of humor. My entire family is funny – each in their own unique way. My dad was, my mom, my brother and sister – on and on it goes with [...]

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I said back in my first post this year that my one word for this year is “OPTIMISTIC.” Now the “in” thing everyone is doing around the blogs I visit is to post “Word Clouds,” which are generated from the words you most use in your blog over time. So, I had to try it. [...]

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[Poetry speaks for itself. Think about what it says to you. What it means to you, as if you had written the words and thoughts. Let it capture your mind and carry you away to that place it describes. And when you go away from here, take the feelings these have given you and keep [...]

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Today’s Valentine’s Day, so I’m writing about cows. Yep. Cows. Don’t ask – I might have to explain. I would write about love, but those of you who have been reading my work for any length of time at all know that every breath of my life is blessed by my husband, Tom, who makes [...]

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Last time I wrote of “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” which I said I still have, years after I first read it, and after giving most of my books away. I asked you to follow the links to the descriptions of James Agee’s literary work and Walker Evans’ black and white photographs of the [...]

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P. P. S. I haven’t totally lost my mental facilties when it comes to looking at the lighter side of life. Below depicts my first impression of Tommy when he got here and we got to meet face to face. Sorry, Tommy – I couldn’t resist. Y’all – Tommy is actually very good looking and [...]

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