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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…

A few decades ago, the Lord gave me a dream that was a very pivotal moment in my life. It ended years of not feeling like I was enough. Never feeling like God could use my life to touch others. There was such a deep part inside, that wanted to help people that I saw…

It is a Wednesday, mid July 2023. Today I will drive the 37 miles to pick up my daughter, then drive the 43 miles where our Mother daughter adventure begins. This approximant amount of miles could get us to the Dane Co airport, where we could board a plane for an adventure in the sky..…

Our pains today can be so very hard, and at times they may seems totally unbearable. Without God , friends and family, they may very well be. There will come a time when each of those injuries/pains will be represented by a scar. Some scars are visible, others maybe are too small, or in a…

I am not to any degree a professional writer. But I do enjoy writing. I find it a great outlet for my many thoughts. I have lived 72 years, a long-time walking life’s path. I have like most experienced many bumps, breaks and bruises. Some self-inflected, others not so much. My desire is to concentrate…