by Robin | Jul 17, 2011 | Faith, Music, youtube ROCKS!
Mark Hall is awfully diplomatic in his new song Courageous, featured in the upcoming film of the same name.  Its unspoken battle cry is more like Man!  Up!! for goodness sakes! Clearly why I'm not a successful lyricist :).  But if you read the...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Robin | Jul 16, 2011 | (in)courage, Encouragement, Favorite things, Nostalgia, Personal
Even with the chicken-scratchiest scrawl, there’s something treasurable in a handwritten letter. Isn’t that why we box some away, impossible to relegate them to trash? I still have letters from my Jennie Arnold Edwards Y Camp days, some likely 40 years old.  And...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Robin | Jul 14, 2011 | Kids, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
They're carelessly scattered in obscure places, "crumbs" my children rudely leave behind.  I frown and think mean thoughts whenever I find them. When they were toddlers, it was a trail of Cheerios or Gold Fish.  And juice box straw...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Robin | Jul 13, 2011 | Art, Biltmore trip, Favorite things, Inspiring, Nature, Photos, Plants & flowers, Real beauty
Note: Click to bigify the pictures–OHMYWORD blog-size does NOT do them justice!   "B" is for… bumbley… and beautiful… and busy… and beady-eyed… And "b" is for buggy… and (wanna)bee Beautiful flowers...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Robin | Jul 12, 2011 | Personal, Writing
It caught me by surprise last night; a sense-memory so strong it transcended time. Sipping well water from a silvery dipper, dented and pocked, drawn from a bucket that had plunged into midnight deep, a mystery as fresh and wonderful to me as new birth.  I...