Painfully Hopeful

Water colored

Yesterday the Philly area returned to the gloomy skies we had been under the week before. Around 5 o’clock, however, something wonderful happened. The clouds thinned and finally broke, revealing lovely blues and pinks as the Sun began its descent to the horizon. After a day of rain the humidity was up rather high, but…

Show and tell

Several years ago a new resident of Riverview Estates, Miss Peg, began attending worship at Central Baptist. She’s a wonderful lady. She is joyful, inquisitive, loves to laugh at herself, and is a tad bit mischievous. Really, she’s my type of person. If you read my blog with any regularity, Peg is often sharing her…

Whatever

I missed participating in the theotek podcast last night, things are a little hectic around these parts and it just didn’t work out. Today I tuned in 1 to see what I missed and, thanks to the diagramming work of Kevin Purcell, I literally saw something. Kevin was using Philippians 4:8-9 as an example, and…

Unpacking In session

I’m getting to this a bit late today, but yesterday’s passage is the beginning of a scene I’ve been writing in my head for almost a year. I need to unpack. Seating arrangements The Senate chamber is set up in four sections. The general gallery is located directly behind the Presidential Dais. The general public…

Fiction Tuesday – In session

Today’s blog is the continuation of, Welcome to the Valleys. If you would like to catch up with the tale, the first section can be found at this link Satal didn’t wait for Jeremy’s response. Instead, she stepped up on to the dais and approached the lectern. As she stood in full view of the crowd, the murmurs of…

Spring in the step

After a week of clouds it’s been nice to see the Sun 1. The last two days I’ve been out with my camera as the Sun began to dip toward the horizon 2, and captured some of my first “green” images of the growing season. Tree bark continues to fascinate me, especially Oak Tree Bark….