… a little contest!

It's 9:30 in the morning and already 85 degrees. I slept until 7 a.m. (Fred finally woke me up) and I'm looking at all of our animals lying prostrate on the wooden parts of the floor. Slow down, relax, take a deep breath, don't rush, be easy with yourself today, seems to be the message....…

A special enterprise of God

I went to the eye doctor yesterday. I had broken a blood vessel in the same place last October and it seemed too odd not to have it checked out by someone who knew more about eyes than I did. I liked the doctor that examined me from the moment I met him. He was…

Internal compass

I visited my mother yesterday who has been ill for a couple of weeks. When I first saw her, I felt alarmed. She  looked scared; her skin was grey and she had  huge dark circles under her eyes. She hadn't wanted me to visit but when I insisted, I think that she was relieved. Toward…

Paying attention

I was cleaning out  Fred's ear yesterday morning, and some of the "stuff" flew into my eye. As I quickly made my way to the bathroom to wash it out, I thought, "OK Mary. What were you thinking when that happened?, and just as quickly, I realized that I had been thinking about my mother,…