Category: The Attic
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Tidbits
Prepare yourselves for an extremely random post. Just a few tidbits of our days together… 1. Yesterday we went to a wedding. All of us. It was classy, tasteful, breathtaking and refreshingly worshipful, full of poetry readings and quotations, Bach Cantatas, dancing the Virginia Reel, all with a genteel southern flair. My Bella was enraptured…
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Just Love
He sat in his wheelchair outside for most of our recent Easter visit, chain smoking and singing to himself loud and off key. My uncle. My dad’s older brother. He’s paranoid schizophrenic and has been institutionalized for the better part of 50 years. 50 years, y’all! He was sixteen when his father died. Then he…
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Cruisin’
So I recently gave a shout out to my in-laws who spent a week in the Mexican Riviera teaching dance on a cruise ship. In response to a few requests for pictures, I give you: The ship The ballroom. (This is where they taught classes in Waltz, Mambo/Cha Cha, and Tango.) The romance. The awesomeness.…
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Shout Out!
Okay, so I have started about 15 blog posts this weekend, some in my mind, some as drafts… but you won’t get one today, because today I just have to give a shout out to my in-laws. Do you know what they are doing right now? Of course you don’t. Sorry. Silly question. Any guesses?…
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Believing: Day 11
In Valor. “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan…As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense…With confidence in our…
A Spring of Joy 