Tag: clean slate
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Is It Really New?
photo courtesy of boliviainteligente on Unsplash We just closed out another year. 2024 is now in the books, not necessarily fully completed, intentionally concluded, or adequately fulfilled. It is done. Over. No going back. No redos. We celebrate worldwide the ending of a year and the beginning of a new group of 365 days. A…
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There Is No Blank Slate
Ward has a passion for creating things on paper. Origami, drawing pictures with a multitude of colors, cutting paper into shapes. Nothing thrills him more than a blank sheet of paper. His imagination soars; he sees things others miss. When I was a child, I had a teacher in third grade, Mrs Dougherty, who chose…
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A Picture Is Worth At Least Fifteen Words
Fifteen framed black and white pictures. All the grands. And an almost granddog. The kids made me cry on Christmas–always a goal. If Mom sobs, the gift was a hit. We have no pictures of all the grands anywhere in the house. The ones we had were outdated–the older ones were underwhelmed by their youth;…
Tip of My Iceberg 