by Melinda | Nov 11, 2014 | All Together Now, Free Indeed, Get Real, Legacy, Listen and Learn, Living Low, My Country, Thankfulness
Nope, this is not a post about Tolstoy. But it is Veteran’s Day, and my title is what I imagine every American veteran’s belief about their role in this life to be. They chose to risk everything in war so that we could realize everything in peace....
by Melinda | Nov 7, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, Get Real, It's Not About Me, Living Low
It happened yesterday, just before I left to run errands. I was washing a few dishes, gazing out the window at the view I love: lots and lots of trees, and beautiful, rolling terrain. The particular tree my eye was trained on (for no particular reason) started to...
by Melinda | Jun 30, 2014 | And We Wait, Free Indeed, Get Real, His Words, Hope, It's Not About Me
I posted about waiting on God, yesterday. A “His Words” post, which is comprised of exactly that – HIS WORDS. I have lived a good portion of the last couple of years in a waiting place, and while I’m no longer waiting on some of those...
by Melinda | Jun 26, 2014 | About Me, Blogging, Get Real
…you realize that you really have too much going on this month (this summer, really, but let’s not get carried away), to effectively write every day. It occurs to you that it’s only the once or twice a week post that is really singing, and...
by Melinda | Jun 25, 2014 | Comparison, Contentedness, Eyes Wide Open, Get Real, Work
There are a million memes that pop up in my social media feeds every day. Every. Single. Day. But every so often, one pops up that knocks my socks off, and yesterday delivered such a powerhouse. It’s something, isn’t it? The thing is, it’s a...
by Melinda | Jun 24, 2014 | All Together Now, Claim to Fame, Eyes Wide Open, Get Real, In the Eye of the Beholder, Temptation, Truth, Uncategorized
This weekend, while working in the yard, I was listening to Simon and Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits. “The Sound of Silence” came on and I was hit, afresh, by the lyric, remembering, only after it was over, that I’d written about it before....
