Category: inspirational

Nature prayer

The thoughts shared in this post are of how important it is to step back and reflect on the beauty around us. Nature prayer Nature prayer — Read on seriouslyseekinganswers.com/2019/06/25/nature-prayer/

Tags nature, peace, prayer, religion

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Rainbows While Traveling

We saw this on our way back from my cousin’s son’s baptism a bit ago. How is it that rainbows are so inspiring?

Tags rainbows, storms, travelling

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Imagination

Tags clouds, daydream, imagination, inspiration, relaxation, summer

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Snowy Christmas Mornings

This morning we woke up to this wonderland — and another couple of feet of snow expected in the next couple of days. So perfect.

Tags Christmas, nature, Snow, winter

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A Circle in the Woods

This is an amazingly cool ice disc someone found in the woods a few hrs from where I live. Nature is so fun, unique, artistic, etc. Love it! Open the post to see it in action.

Tags Circles, Ice, Ice disc, nature, winter

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Blessing Boxes

College students shouldn’t have to think about whether or not they will have a meal during the day. But that is a scenario that many face, and most of the world isn’t aware of the struggle. In 2014, Feeding America, the USA’s largest emergency food assistance network, calculated that around 10% of its 46.5 million adult […]

Tags #watbwb, charities, College food, Food donations, Watwb

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Extra Coins

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We are winding down our month of living in Portugal. As with any trip to Europe, we’re doing all we can to use up those euro coins since they are awkward to hold on to and aren’t necessary back in the United States. I was mentioning this to a friend, and she had a great […]

Tags coins, Euros, generosity, travel tips, travelling

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Inspired by Waves in Winter

Post author By Chrissie
Post date 03/24/2017
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A slideshow: And a 54-second video if you, like me, love the sound of waves. So mesmerizing.

Tags Beach, Family, Ice, Lake Ontario, nature, Photography, Southwick, Southwick State Park, Sunset, Water, winter

Sadie Speaks
I was proud of myself for sitting by the side of the road when GrAnne told me to. The grandsons call her Gran, but she’s GrAnne to me. I like to put a little growl at the beginning of her name. They say, “SADIE! CAR! SIT!” I don’t know how to car-sit, but I’ve figured […]
England 40 Years Ago — September 21, 1980
Last Monday was John’s birthday. He said they made much of it in the office, scads of people stopping by his desk to wish him well. As a special treat for dinner, we had onion soup. The treat for the girls was that they were not required to eat it. John $ seems to be […]
Tossed!
Our conversation turned into a contest, which I lost. I was laughing at myself and shared what I did at the bathroom sink. I used a hair band to keep hair away from my face. After washing my face, I raked the band off and tossed it in the waste basket instead of putting it […]
September Fun Days
We finally met John’s sister Chris and husband Steve from South Carolina to celebrate all our birthdays. Four times a year we plan to get together, but many things intervened this past year. Chris arranged to have the other sister, Barbara and husband Thom, join us with a video call from New York. It was […]
England 40 Years Ago — September 14, 1980
Kate’s finger is getting better, though looking awful. John took her to the casualty department Monday night, and she came home beaming with the impressively large bandage on it. She was told to keep it on for five days, but it fell off before then. You should have seen some of the funny looking things […]
England 40 Years Ago — September 8, 1980
Someone commented last Sunday that there must have been a wedding because of the confetti. The girls picked up a few pieces, and we discovered it was paper in the shapes of hearts, flowers, horse shoes, etc. The only confetti we had seen before was made up of tiny pieces of shredded paper. In talking […]
Camera Not Handy! September 2000
Daughter Kate and her boys spent the afternoon with us. It was almost unbearably humid, so I retreated to my air-conditioned bedroom where Nathaniel (7 months) was sleeping in a portable crib. Before long David (5) joined me on the bed. I read three books to him before he began constructing a tent with blankets. […]
S’mores on Labor Day
Grandson David worked a full shift on the holiday and came home to eat his warmed bison burger, prepared earlier by Uncle John $pencer. We had been longing for S’mores, a common campfire dessert made with Graham crackers, milk chocolate candy squares, and marshmallows. David’s mom had left the extra fixings from our July 4th […]
Labor Day 20 Years Ago
September 4, 2000 On Labor Day John and I went out to eat in the middle of the day. I knew we couldn’t go far, because John was slated for the late shift at Borders. We both wished to avoid the tourist crowds in Port Jeff, and neither of us wanted to spend a mint […]
Not Alone??
Few things are more delicious than taking a Sunday afternoon nap. We huddled in our jackets at outdoor church, ate a wonderful lunch at Fatz, and enjoyed the mountain scenery on the way home. Surely there was no better way to digest it all than to sleep for half an hour. I woke refreshed and […]