Month: September 2023

My rabbit-proofed garden is growing nicely. Beautiful yellows and purples are visible from my kitchen sink. Such joy-givers. But now there’s new dilemma. They took out the old dead juniper last fall, so this spring the landscaping committee asked what I wanted to plant in the empty space. One of the suggestions was Knock-Out roses….

Seems it was the right decision when I decided not to block up the rabbit’s home. I heard today (while I was putting up the fence to protect the roses) that there have been coyotes seen in the neighborhood. Not just anywhere either but in the park area between the buildings sitting nonchalantly on a…

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come,…

9/11 brought out the best in Americans. We had each other’s backs. 22 years later, we are at each other’s throats. So, what happened? Fear happened: it’s hard to care about others when you are terrified for yourself. But since fear saps strength, it turns to that powerful emotion, anger. Then anger demands to be…

Remember the hours after September 11 when we came together as one! It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us. John Kerry ********** ********** “With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol…

“On [September 10, 2001], 246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights. 2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning. 343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift. 60 police officers went to sleep in preparation for morning patrol. 8 paramedics went to sleep in…

… and National Day of Service and Remembrance, 2023 [Portions of the proclamation signed by President Biden on September 8, 2023]    By a joint resolution approved December 18, 2001 (Public Law 107-89), the Congress has designated September 11 of each year as “Patriot Day,” and by Public Law 111-13, approved April 21, 2009, the Congress has…

Found while scrolling. Still makes me laugh. ********** ********** ********** **********

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.    The world and all its people belong to him.Psalm 24:1 NLT … my money. But He is the Good Father who, while meeting his children’s needs, graciously gives them money to buy a Mother’s Day present. ***** … my help. But He is the Good Mother who, while…