Tag: dailyprompt
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About me
What’s something most people don’t know about you? Most people would never guess I am very limber and double jointed.
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Some Things Age Like Grace
Not everything fades with time. Some things — like wisdom, inner peace, and quiet courage — only deepen as the years pass. Here’s what I believe gets better with age.
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What is Romance?
Romance isn’t sacred, it’s a story we’ve mistaken for truth. In this reflection, Sister Leah reclaims the meaning of love, structure, and divine order, asking: What if romance has taken our time and left us with nothing lasting?
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Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood? Fried potatoes and onions. My grandma used to make them whenever her grandchildren came to visit. He’d slap her backside and she’d be like “Homney, stop that in from of the children.” As we got older the flirtatious behavior just got worse, in a…
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Old and still used
What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily? My mattress and box springs. I am ashamed to admit I have had the set since my daughter was 3 months old. She turned 40 a few months ago.
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A book on my list
What books do you want to read? America the Beautiful: rediscovering what made this country great. I want to know if this tells when exactly there were no crime, slavery, Jim Crowe, no homeless, no poverty no hunger. I want to read this book and see if it tells when utopia existed and why it…
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What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? I like writing in my leisure time. It’s very relaxing to write, rewrite and rewrite some more.
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What notable things happened today? My pullets found a way out of the coop (housed inside a chain link fenced in area in the backyard) so they could access what they probably think is a smorgasbord of plant growth and bugs.
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Three Objects I Need
What are three objects you couldn’t live without? Without my glasses, my world would be a blurry adventure where cereal boxes transform into classic novels, and navigating through the day would be like wandering through a whimsical, foggy dream. My trusty brush is my morning savior, taming my hair from a wild horror film look…
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The Ghosts of 60: Why Saying Goodbye to My Fifties Was So Hard
Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to. We often mark milestones in life with celebration, a looking forward to new chapters. But sometimes, the passage of time brings with it a weight, a melancholy that can linger longer than the birthday cake. For me, that weight settled in as I…
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