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 'Reflections'

Summer Time & The Livin’ is Easy

July 13th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Blogging, Finding Direction Contests, Photos, Videos, Reflections

Refreshing rain all spring has brought delightful summer flowers.  The clear currents of rain have brought bright splashes of flowers everywhere we’ve been. My soul has been refreshed as well and inspired. That is what I wish and pray for you, my friends.  I hope yours have been as well, so that you can tap [...]

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No Dragons to Slay

July 8th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Reflections, Uncategorized

I have no dragons to slay today, so I am at peace – for the first time in a good while. Dragons have been attacking me from all around and for far as I could see.  Little ones, big ones, fast ones, slow ones, obnoxious ones and some that crept up upon on cats’ paws, [...]

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Texas Style 4th of July

July 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Dee's Family, Families, Finding Direction Contests, Photos, Videos, Reflections

Hi, Y’all! I’m in Texas once again – second time in three weeks – for another family visit.  This time, I wised up and flew out to Dallas instead of driving nearly 600 miles one way. Things are going as well as can be expected, I suppose, although things are tough right now for some [...]

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My Way is Unclear Today, But Stay With Me, Anyway . . .

June 14th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Perspective, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

My heart is heavily burdened right now with family difficulties on many fronts, some from the distant past that have accumulated and come to a head in recent months.  Others have arisen over the past several months and continue to become more serious and onerous each day, it seems. I am spending my time, whether [...]

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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 [...]

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