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Photo by my sister Juanda. It was take from her porch this weekend (near Wausau). Yesterday was my daughter Autumn’s cancer benefit. One of the definitions of benefit is something that profits. People profit, we benefit/profit in our hard times by the people that line our path. Like the movies where a person gives all…

You will notice I have expanded my horizons. 😊 I have learned how to add some of my personal photos to my page. I figured it out after I posted last week, so I decided it was worth a repost. It went well with my Perspective Post of last week. **This will be a busy…

A friend laid on her stomach to get a picture of this one foot tall fire flower, with an over 9000 ft Mt St Helen backdrop. I think one of the most consistent positions in my life, regardless of which hat I had on, was to try to get people to possibly entertain someone else’s…

We have all seen the picture of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet sitting on the log. I think there is a lesson to be learned from their conversation. “Today was a Difficult Day,” said Pooh. There was a pause. “Do you want to talk about it?” asked Piglet. “No,” said Pooh after a bit. “No,…

  This week I closed the workbook on the 6th Grief Share group I have Facilitated. This time the book will be put away and replaced. Each session I used a different colored ink. Grief Share has revamped their course after 10 years. So all workbooks and leader’s guides are new.  Many things will be…

Once upon a time in a place not too far away, there sat a little girl under a pine tree. I could smell the pine, hear the birds sing and see the fallen brown needles where she sat. She seemed to be talking to someone, but there was no one else but her, that I…

Family Reunion 2023 (from my eyes) REUNION: Multiple generations of a family gathering for 4 to 5 hours, every year or two. These members were all in some way related to the oldest members of the family at the time of the group’s inception. In our case it was Harold and Margaret Towne. My Dad…

Today I received a letter from World Vision that our sponsored child is graduating from school, and the program. His name is Papa Sampa. That caught our attention as we were choosing another child to sponsor. In our family my husband Jim, was better known as Papa. We sponsored Papa in 2011. We have sponsored…

Chemo therapy has defiantly been stopped. This is due to heart issues following each treatment. We are waiting to see if she will be excepted into a new study involving 2 new Immunotherapy treatments. They have had some promising results with stomach cancer. Autumn’s diagnosis is stage 4 stomach cancer. If she is not excepted…

Today I woke up with some sinus congestion. Nothing serious, but just enough to cause me to look back at where I had been, and what I had done for the past day or so. Was I around something that I was sensitive or allergic to. Maybe it was because I was in and out…