And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it. – A. A. Milne This past year, we were privileged to host the making of some authentic Kansas honey. Our contribution? Providing a safe place for a single hive of bees to access our gardens from spring to fall. This included fruit […]
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How To Replace A Blown Tire
“Tires are the silent partners in every journey we take.” – Bobby Fischer I’ve experienced two tire blowouts in my life. The first was in my 2009 Pontiac Vibe a few years ago. I was traveling south on I-35 in Oklahoma, on cruise control at the 70 MPH speed limit, when I hit something in the road. […]
Four Examples of How To Renew Old Drawers
Drawer. Noun: a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it. Origin & History of “drawers”: A drawer is literally something that is ‘drawn’ or ‘pulled’ out. The coinage was perhaps based on French tiroir ‘drawer’, which was similarly derived from […]
How To Let The Five Candles Of Advent Refresh And Renew
the “Christmas isn’t just a temporal celebration or the memory of a beautiful (event); Christmas is more … Christmas is an encounter!” – Pope Francis The season of Advent is all but done, a season of expectation leading up to Christmas Day. But what have we been expecting? Let’s focus on the roots of the […]
Where Haunting Echoes Of Joyful Celtic Roots Reside – The Wexford Carol
Within a manger he was laidAnd by his side the virgin maidAttending on the Lord of LifeWho came on earth to end all strife. – The Wexford Carol, Third Stanza Last year, as my husband and I enjoyed our Christmas dinner in our dining room at Maison Steinbuchel, we listened to the Celtic music of […]
Giving A Voice To The Voiceless – The Christmas Shepherds
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. – Neil Gaiman The story of the nativity would be incomplete without the shepherds “keeping watch over their flocks […]
Excited Angels, Awesome Peace And The Christ Candle
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. – Luke 2:14 He’s here! He’s Finally here! The Angels sang. Angel Messengers popped up everywhere: He’s Here! The plan is progressing. That plan laid out before the foundation of the earth is working! – THE PLAN! This truth in history […]
Why Bother To Hope? A More Rugged Higher Truth
“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope -. Martin Luther The Advent Season begins with lighting the Prophecy Candle representing Hope. Why have hope? It’s such an elusive and squishy idea in today’s world. More in the line of wishful thinking. In most cases. the words “I hope so” have a […]
Ten Powerful Thoughts That Will Nurture Gratitude
“Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.” —George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, October 3, […]