Category: The Library
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This Ordinary Life (It’s Extraordinary)
Music streamed throughout our house. She skipped down the stairs all ready to bake her strawberry cake. I smiled at her Spiderwoman dress (I mean, after all, who DOESN’T cook as Spiderwoman?). He trailed behind her, art supplies in hand. “Mommy, I’m so glad I’m a big enough girl to bake things on my own.”…
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Seven Years
It’s hard to believe that it has been seven years since that day… the day I learned that some monsters are real… that cancer had invaded my body, my breast, and then my lymph nodes. I read once that after seven years if you get breast cancer again, it’s not considered a recurrence, it’s considered…
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Broken and Beautiful
I wrote this post four years ago about my Pappy and Nanny… seems fitting to share it again. Friends for 83 years, married for over 70. I’ve since heard even more stories… what a gift God gave this world in them! “It’s been a great life.” He said it at least 4 times in the…
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Unspeakable Love
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and of unspeakable love.” ~Washington Irving Her last words to me on Wednesday, “I miss you. I love you. I’ll see you next time.” Next time…
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The Book He’s Opening Now…
“But I still didn’t know what to say. What do you say when it feels like you’ve come to the end of a really great book and there’s no more chapters, but you want it to go on forever?” (~Leonore Look) Pappy’s chapter here on earth has ended, but the book… oh, the book he’s…
A Spring of Joy 