Life Twisted by Texts
The twisted tree lives its life, while the straight tree ends up in boards. Chinese Proverb Or, my 2024 version: The twisted tree lives its life, while the straight tree becomes. . . bored The
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The twisted tree lives its life, while the straight tree ends up in boards. Chinese Proverb Or, my 2024 version: The twisted tree lives its life, while the straight tree becomes. . . bored The
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Lorraine would have been in her early 50s when she became the pivot point to the rest of my life. I was the minister’s daughter and she was the minister’s secretary. Being a PK (preacher’s
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My plane left me behind. I am tired. My boarding pass is not downloading. Not even Delta can access it. I would like to find a hot sandwich and maybe some ice cream for supper.
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Changes. A month ago, it was still light out at this hour. Today, I have to wait for sunrise to take my morning walk. There are no street lights here. The deer are up and
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Ella pulled up her kayak next to mine and we overlapped our paddles to float back eastward on the afternoon waves together. It was her last visit of the summer. She will enter high school
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It’s 5:00 am. I don’t know why, maybe the light, but all summer this is the time I wake up. I’m snuggled under a quilt sewn by my Grandma Edith, or so I believe, in
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The kayaks were laid out along the bank by the short dock in front of the boathouse. There were two orange, open faced kayaks for the girls, a longer open kayak for Lois, and my
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I knew the day was near. Nothing lasts forever. My 2010 car was making a noise. It had been a good car for ten years, braving everything from the rugged cabin lane, to Minnesota winters
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The spring rains came and with them, sprouts, orioles and nightcrawlers. This morning’s walk was slowed by my constant bending to scoop up a sand covered worm wiggling its way across my gravel road. Tossing
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