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 Tagged as 'Perspective'

Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009: Cotter – Homes 2, 3 and More

January 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Families, Historical, Humor, Perspective, Photos, Videos, Reflections, Stories, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

If I tried to show you photos of all of the different places the Andrews boys lived during the 8 years they were in north central Arkansas, I’d have to do a large photo album.  And, it wasn’t just during those years.  Between the three of them (not counting their oldest half-brother, long dead) and [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009 – Day One, Part Two: Wally World to Mt. Home

November 23rd, 2009 · 7 Comments · Families, Perspective, Tom & Me, Tom's Family, Uncategorized

What started out as one person going into Wally World in eastern Arkansas to get a step stool turned into all eight of us wandering around WW’s hinterlands for an hour searching for each other with our eyes wide at all of the costumed Halloweeners.  The 25% of the patrons not in full costume looked [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Arkansas Memories Tour of 2009 – Day One, Part One: On the Road, Memphis to Mt. Home

November 20th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Families, Humor, Perspective, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

[Note:  Family - gotta love 'em!  We had a fabulous time on this trip.  And, what fun all along the way riding together - eight, then nine, of us - in a 15 passenger van.  Enjoy some of the highlights of our five days together.] At the end of the last episode of the Andrews’ [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

A Day of Silence, Fasting & Prayer

October 19th, 2009 · 14 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 [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Story Tellers 3 – With Grace Surround Us

October 9th, 2009 · 7 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 [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Finding Directions: Boys & Their Wonder Toys

September 28th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Friends, Humor, Perspective, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

In response to my last post ‘‘Story Tellers 2 – View From my Kitchen Sink,” Greg (England) wrote a comment, as he most always does.  It was not only funny and interesting, but fraught with such applicable truths about many males I know that I felt compelled to respond to it and to add some [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Reflections & Remembrances Intertwined: A Lovely Girl; A Beloved Father

September 17th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Dee's Family, Families, Perspective, Philosophical, Photos, Videos, Reflections, Tom & Me, Tom's Family

These shortening days gliding slowly into fall when the shadows lengthen no longer bring so much deep sorrow and grief to Tom and me as we think of his beautiful daughter Kim and my loving dad, but as the years have gone by bring more lovely reflections and remembrances. I’ve written here each September since [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: