Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

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Entries from October 28th, 2009

Random Thoughts

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Humor

I don’t know about y’all, but I could use some lighthearted humor today and I think these fit the bill.  For some reason – well, actually I know the reasons – I’ve fighting fatigue and lack of rest/sleep at night since I returned from Dallas a week ago Sunday.  It started several weeks before that, [...]

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Story Tellers 4 – The Rest of the Story

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · A Home Complete, Families, Story Tellers, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

If you will look below at Friday’s post, you will see the photo of a master potter’s hand-thrown, kiln dried and glazed vase, with lid, given to us by Kay Nguyen, a member of our extended family.  I asked you each to try to guess what the motif is that she carved around the jar.
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Story Tellers 4 – Who Can Guess?

October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · A Home Complete, Photos, Videos, Reflections, Stories, Story Tellers, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

The beautiful pottery jar with lid below was hand thrown and decorated by Tom’s son-in-law’s sister, Kay Nguyen, a professional potter.  She lives in Houston where she practices her art and works with children and others.
It is kiln fired and glazed.  It has an interesting motif carved in the clay which is carried out [...]

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Amazing Graces

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Dee's Family, Families, Friends, Health, Inspirational, Movies; Music, Our Kids, Photos, Videos, Spirituality, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

I feel very blessed with amazing graces this morning because of all of your heartfelt comments and prayers on my behalf and for Rebecca and our entire family.
One of the biggest blessings came yesterday about noon when Rebecca called me to tell me she’d had a CT scan early yesterday morning, that the abscess in [...]

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A Day of Silence, Fasting & Prayer

October 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Dee's Family, Families, Friends, Health, Inspirational, Our Kids, Perspective, Photos, Videos, Tom & Me

My dear friends,
I am home (last night at dark) from an eight day, 575  mile (one way) trip alone to go stay with and care for my dear daughter, Rebecca, last week out near Dallas.  She spent nine days in the hospital with a severe kidney infection and belatedly discovered abscess in her right kidney.  [...]

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Story Tellers 3 – With Grace Surround Us

October 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Inspirational, Perspective, Reflections, Story Tellers, Tom & Me

Today I want to share our latest acquisition with you.  It’s our first one in a long while, actually, but when I found it, I felt peaceful and blessed and had to have it.
So, I brought it home and Tom and I searched out the best place to hang it in our home.  We decided [...]

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Country Girls & Old Pickup Trucks

October 5th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Dee's Family, Families, Photos, Videos, Reflections, View From the 80's

When Mom & Laura were visiting here last April on our “Great Road Trip of 2009,” one of the first things Laura spotted in our living room was our “Barrick Corner” just to the left of our front door as you come in.  In that corner are one large painting by Bill Barrick (who goes [...]

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