Beautiful music stirs my arms to goose bumps. Maybe that’s why I always feel cold. One of the most challenging things I’ve done with my musical talent is participating in an organ/piano duet from Handel’s “Messiah” while Dad directed the Draper 4th Ward choir. Dad committed mother and I to do it long before [...]
“YES, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUSE” Little Teddy with the permed, very, very curly hair and the smile that showcased her two missing front teeth, had some difficult decisions to make the year she turned eight. And for an eight year old, it felt like it was pretty heavy. It was mostly about Santa [...]
Midnight Reminiscing … Oh I love the quiet of the night, when it’s just me and the Christmas lights. I often find my mind taking me back to Christmas’s Past and the golden memories of happy times spent with friends and family; particularly to our own little flock of five. I like to close [...]
Water retention is an ongoing problem with me and I often take my rings and watch off, put my watch band through the rings, then shut the clasp and put them in my travel jewelry box for safe keeping. So I didn’t think anything of it when I was shopping and subconsciously ran my [...]
I probably don’t have many readers left after all this time. It’s been such a six months! Just a quick update on me … some days I feel better and some days I don’t. There is no change in the medicine yet but the doctor was going to try for a third time to get [...]
My writing these days has been to the diary of a support group I’ve found that has been set up for people with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. It seems like that (that being the disease) has been on my mind a lot the last four months (I wonder why) and I haven’t felt it was appropriate [...]
I doubt it has even crossed your mind to wonder what was wrong with the van … but you still get to hear “the rest of the story”. The van had a little doohickey that needed adjusted. The man called us and said we could either get a new part that would be around $200 [...]
I’ve been hearing some of the words of the following poem in my mind today. It’s been one of my favorite poems since I was just a little girl. The other thing that has been in my mind is a picture of Albrecht Durer’s Praying Hands. Mother gave me a small copy of this the [...]
Goodbye 2010. When all is said and done, it was another beautiful year for our family. News stations globally recount their best ten stories of the year and so shall I; although I can’t put them in order of importance. So … in random order (drum roll please) Grandma Henke’s “Top Ten from Two [...]
Technorati Tags: Wishing,blessings On Sundays I often count my blessings. Not that I’m not aware of my blessings on the other six days of the week, because in general I think I’m a grateful person. But, on Sundays, it is quiet and peaceful, and I think back over the years of my life and I [...]
