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Stories From my Daddy

Stories from my Daddy Storytelling is the oldest form of record keeping.  Most of what we know of ancient history is from oral telling of facts and events, with each generation passing them on to the next. Stories are the most important inheritance we have to pass on.  ~ Donald Davis I cannot remember a time when my Daddy wasn't telling stories.  He told them while we worked, at the supper table, before bedtime.  In the summer, when the heat from the tin roof and wood cook stove drove us out of the house, we sat on the porch with a gnat-smoke in a metal half-bushel tub and Daddy told stories: Stories about hard times, violent deaths of people we didn't know but had allegedly shared DNA, war stories, and mule stories. They included tales about his siblings, which amazed me because his subjects were now elderly people with children of their own, and it was so hard to imagine my sweet aunts jumping fences while running from snakes. Daddy told stories of favorit...

Listening

I love the  Lord , because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. Psalm 116:1-2   KJV

Slowing Down

Slowing Down by Wanda Stricklin Robertson I used to hurry, taking no time for things I encountered along the way.  Now, I amble, turtle-like, stopping, embracing, soaking in every ray of sunlight, healing energy warm. I used to rush, never looking around, but now, lingering, I savor existence, every tiny treasure found. I used to charge into the chaotic crowd, not caring where they were bound, as long as they would accept me as part of their madness.  At last, I see the wrong of wasted time when I used to obsess about not measuring up, and changing me to fit into their perceived perfection. I'm so over that.  Today, I'll just be happy to breathe in, breathe out, hearing the birds, the babies, the silence. Taking nothing for granted, listening, leaning; I'm loving it, this life I'm making.