or are you waiting to be saved by a miracle? Because, as my husband likes to say, “hope is not a strategy.” We are watching the entire planet morph into tyranny, following a script that has been telegraphed in all its parts. The next part is global famine. That will open the doors for the… Continue reading are you ready?
Month: April 2022
loquats!
who knew?! When we moved further south seven years ago, my husband’s aunt and uncle came to visit from Florida. We are in the same temperate zone and she brought plants for us. A couple didn’t make it, for one reason or another. And a couple did. We have some Asian (or African?) lilies in… Continue reading loquats!
good friday
a somber day I never understood why it was called “Good Friday” in Holy Week. What on earth “good” was there to Jesus being crucified? How was it ever “good” that he had to drag his own cross through the rough streets of Jerusalem and then up to Golgotha? It was good for us, of… Continue reading good friday
Maundy Thursday
that’s today Holy Week is the week between Palm Sunday and Easter, and is an important piece of the Christian religion — it is important to Christian faith, too, though. It is the evening of the Last Supper. The night when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples and anointed them with oil. And then… Continue reading Maundy Thursday
why we’re there….
and what’s next? I hate to always be the voice of doom and gloom, but there is some serious shit coming down the pike, and it’s better to be a little concerned about it than to be blindsided by it when it hits. The sad thing is that it is being done to us and… Continue reading why we’re there….