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Summer officially started on the calendar yesterday, June 21st. That was the summer solstice when here in this side of the world, we had the longest daylight day of the year. In Kentucky we had almost 15 hours of daylight. In terms of daylight, this day is 5 hours, 20 minutes longer than the December solstice. While the days will …
Happy Father’s Day to all of you. I hope you were able to talk to your father, maybe give him a hug today. And if your father, like mine, has gone on, that you have many good memories to make your heart smile. My dad was a farmer. This picture is one I took of him going out to feed …
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Friday I had the fun of doing a zoom interview for Relatable Voice Podcast. Lucia. the podcast hostess, did her homework before we talked by sending me a whole list of questions to help her get to know me before the podcast interview. However the Q&A was just for her information. So, I thought maybe some of you would enjoy …
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who made this Mystery Photo Game so much fun. You all have the best imaginations. No wonder you love to read and turn those story words into movies in your heads. I admit …
There is always a pleasure in unraveling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty. – Elizabeth Gaskell I’ve had a great time playing the mystery photo game with you all this time around. It feels like we just got started instead of being already to our last mystery photo. I have struggled over what to …
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. ~Julia Cameron Another mystery has come and been solved – by some of you. When I posted Sunday’s mystery photo, I wasn’t sure whether it would be easy or hard. Whichever it was for you, I loved the guesses. Some were very fun. Ann threw up her hands and gave …
“Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?” ~ Charles de Lint My first mystery photo didn’t do too badly. Not everyone got it and not everyone didn’t get it. The popular guess was a honeycomb. Very reasonable guess since just a few weeks ago I was all about …
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~Elizabeth Bowen My new book, In the Shadow of the River, came out on May 9th. Some of you even got the book before that date as a few flew out to readers early. Always fun to have a new story out on the shelves to sell and in the hands of people …
With God’s power working in us, God can do much, much more than anything we can ask or imagine. …Ephesians 3:20 (New Century Version) I went to hear the Patriot Quartet sing at the Faith Baptist Church in Frankfort, Kentucky last night. That’s why this post is a little later than usual. It’s been a while since I’ve been …