Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

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Finding Direction:  The Wind Vane Chronicles

Entries Tagged as 'Inspirational'

Winners Announced and Featured in the Finding Direction Summer 2010 Photo Contest

August 31st, 2010 · 6 Comments · Blogging, Finding Direction Contests, Humor, Inspirational, Photos, Videos

With the closing of the Finding Direction Summer 2010 Photo Contest on August 15th, the Summer Olympics of all contests has ended, four years having been about the last time this contest was held due to circumstances beyond the control of the judges, and much apathy, besides.  All that remains is the announcement of the [...]

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As Photo Contest Judging Continues – Practice Patience!

August 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Finding Direction Contests, Friends, Inspirational, Reflections, Uncategorized

The  judges in the Finding Direction Summer 2010 Photo Contest are busy, busy pouring over all of the entries.  In all, there were nearly 70 entries (I missed several the other day – sorry about that.  Nearly left a couple of people out, and certainly don’t want that to happen) and it’s taking time to [...]

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Brand New “Finding Direction Summer 2010 Photo Contest” – Y’all Enter!!

June 28th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Blogging, Finding Direction Contests, Humor, Inspirational, Photos, Videos, Uncategorized

I haven’t done one of these in over a year, but inspiration has struck me (thanks to Greg over at “why, soitenly,” although I still have him booked as the “Ex-Rev’s Ramblings”) and I’m now on a roll.
For those of you who may be new, the quickest way to get up to speed is to [...]

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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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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 some [...]

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God's Glorious Handiwork – And Some of Man's Creativity

May 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · A Home Complete, Creating A Home, Inspirational, Reflections, Tom & Me

Our spring has been beautiful beyond description.
And since Tom’s been home since his surgery a month ago, we decided to brighten up our back porch and deck with some hanging baskets of flowers, as we sit out there several hours a day, some days.  This is our view from our old white wicker furniture nestled [...]

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