by Diane W. Bailey | Nov 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
The old-fashioned Christmas lights are illuminating the darkness as I pull into home. I love those big fat red, blue, green, and orange spheres hanging beneath the cedar porch next to the pool. I leave them up all year and turn them on in the summer when we have...
by Diane W. Bailey | Nov 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Morning light slips quietly through the blinds of my bedroom. It gently encourages me to rise from my cozy place beneath the down feathers, to fight the gravity to which I have succumbed to in the night, and step into the day. The bright morning star floods our room...
by Diane W. Bailey | Nov 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
“I didn’t asked to be born!” shouted my teen, disrespectfully from the bedroom. “It’s not fair. Nobody else has to do this! You’re so mean!” And the door to the purple room closes with a slam. “Good thing you didn’t ask to be born today,” I thought to...
by Diane W. Bailey | Nov 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
We are putting in an orchard in the upper field. We pull together, JB and I, as one, as a team, each one doing their part. My part was to get lumber to build trellises and arbors for some of the fruit to grow. JB hooked the trailer to our White Ford...
by Diane W. Bailey | Nov 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last night, sitting on the couch with needle and lace in hand, I was hand-sewing a baby dress for a friend while listening to Billy Graham’s last talk – how true he has stayed to the one message God called him to preach. “The Cross is offensive,” he said, “it...