Painfully Hopeful

Never Again

I didn’t check my news feeds until late this afternoon, so it wasn’t until around 4 o’clock that I saw the news about a church shooting in North Wales, PA. Not only is that just up the road from where I grew up, I have friends who continue to live in the area. Seeing such…

The fence

My daughter has taken steps to create a small vegetable garden in our back yard. I appreciate her efforts, especially since said yard is a mess of dirt, moss, and weeds 1. A vegetable garden is a huge improvement. After waking this morning I noticed how the previous night’s rain was clinging to the chickenwire…

Relieved

Today I am feeling immense relief. In the grand scheme of things loosing a hard drive, even one which contains important data, isn’t the end of the world. There are far greater issues in the world with which to wrestle. And yet, that drive contained a collection of a significant portion of my creative energy…

Oh crud

I sat down last night to search through my Lightroom library to find an image to post in today’s blog. When I opened the application, however, I was presented with an error telling me the library couldn’t be located. I checked my MacBook and noticed the drive wasn’t mounted. So I unplugged it and plugged…

On the edge

Last night was an absolutely stunning evening here in South Jersey, so the “shutter hubbies” 1 went out to take some photos of yet another Burlington County Park. I’d been to Willingboro Lakes Park once before, having travelled to it this past Winter on an unseasonably mild day. It was so beautiful at that time…

Unpacking Lifted Up

I was so pleased to get Michael and Terrin back into the picture with this last section. Let’s unpack. Tollen’s intrusion I love Tollen’s explanation of his method for bypassing Presidential security. He trained many of the guards who are now directly under Satal’s command and they have not forgotten. Even in The Valleys, where…