Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

Take time to seek out a better way, while exploring less traveled side roads along the path

Finding Direction:  The Wind Vane Chronicles

Entries from May 28th, 2010

May We NEVER Forget

May 28th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Historical, Inspirational, Photos, Videos, Reflections, Uncategorized

Many of us are making “holiday” plans for this three day weekend starting tomorrow, including our president – our erstwhile “Commander in Chief” – who is going off for enjoyment, rather than going over to Arlington National Cemetery to lay wreaths among the fallen soldiers of this great land of ours.  I don’t know about [...]

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Texas Spring Beauty

May 25th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Humor, Photos, Videos, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Those of you who are regular readers know I was wanting to go out to Texas to see my mom & sister in April so we could take a little three day road trip down into the hill country of Texas to see all of the bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush in bloom.  Alas, Tom having [...]

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God’s Beautiful LITTLE Things in Life

May 22nd, 2010 · 11 Comments · Inspirational, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me

This has been a most stressful week for me, with no modem/internet for four days, my blog host moving all of us TheoBloggers over to a new server, with us having some down time here on my blog, and assorted family emergencies and crises.  Being an in-betweener, with my mom still with me, having grown [...]

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The Girl in the Woods

May 18th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Friends, Inspirational, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Stories, Uncategorized

She lived out in the deep Piney Woods of East Texas, a good ways out from Nacogdoches. She was 19 years old and married to a small thin man in his late 30s or early 40s who looked to be twice his age and was crippled up in his left arm from a working accident [...]

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You’re Part of An Experiment – What Say Ye?!

May 16th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Blogging, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Those of you who have been following my blog or who have dropped by at all and remember what it has looked like for more than five years will see a drastic change in it the past couple of days.  As I suspected, a lot of my readers and followers are just like me and [...]

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A New Look For Finding Direction

May 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

Those of you who have been by here the past day or two will notice experimenting with changes in the appearance of Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles. What say ye about this one? Finding Direction has needed an upgraded theme for a very long time.  After all, this blog is more than five years [...]

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California vs. Texas – I’m With Texas

May 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Humor

[Note:  Borrowed this from Lee Hodges, who had posted it on Facebook today.  Read to the very end.  Interesting. ] Situation: Governor of state jogging with his dog along a trail. Coyote jumps out and starts to attack dog. California: #1. Governor starts to intervene and then realizes he should stop; the coyote is doing [...]

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