Thursday, October 16, 2025
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
The color of warm
As the days are getting shorter, the evenings are getting cooler. I love to warm up the house with color.
Warm and inviting.....
Won't you join us?
Thursday, October 9, 2025
The Gateway Arch
During our travels one summer, we drove past the St Louis Arch. What an amazing monument!
"St. Louis was founded by traders moving north and south on the river, by explorers and frontier families from the eastern states pushing restlessly west. It is a place that is neither northern nor southern, neither eastern nor western, but the one place that combines traits of all. It has been influenced by descendants of European colonists, by thousands of years of rich Native American culture which predated it and surrounded it, and by standing on the shadow line between the slave states and the free states. It has been both a destination and a gateway to other lands.
This is the place where a nation reached the great river and halted, staring across the water into wide, wild lands. In St. Louis, the United States ended and the wild began. So it was here that the citizens of the young United States streamed across and into the western territories, first with Lewis and Clark and then with countless others. It all began from a wide bend on the continent’s mightiest river. This is where the United States discovered America. This is the Core of Discovery." (Source)
Sunday, October 5, 2025
If Teacups
....... could talk, what would they say.
England
France
perhaps Germany or Japan
Would they tell you if they served tea to a Lady, a Duchess or maybe even a Queen?
Would your teapot tell you the secrets of it's past. In the book If Teacups Could Talk by Emilie Barnes, she states -
For hundreds of years, "Come for tea" has been another way of saying, "Come, let's share a little bit of our lives together." Quietly and gently, this inviting phrase calls us out of ourselves and into special relationships with others
I have collected tea cups for many years now. Some are new, some of old, some are just plain used. Some were gifts. And a few were inherited from a special friend who passed away.
There are special memories with each teacup. Memories of good times, and some painful times. And yet, it isn't the teacup, or the tea that makes the time spent special. It's what happens when you sit down and share your heart as you pour a cup of tea, coffee, or lemonade.
If teacups could talk, I think what they would say is-
"Come and share a pot of tea,
My home is warm and my friendship's free."
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Monday, September 29, 2025
Heart friend
Do you have a friend who sticks closer to you then a brother? I've had two such friends in my lifetime. One is with the Lord, and the other lives many states away. But yet when I think of the sweet friendships that we have shared, it warms my heart beyond measure.
"There's a blessing in our friendship,
It's a bond between we two.
For the Lord brought us together,
And I thank Him now for you.
You've been there when I needed you,
We've shared our dreams and plans.
And when at times I've fallen down,
You've given me your hand.
You are always such a Joy
Each time that we're together,
But more than that, you are my friend
And in my heart forever."
So today I am thankful for my heart friends. The ones who really care, and share part of their lives with me. Friends may come and friends may go, but your heart friend is with you forever.
"Kindness is a friend's greatest asset,
With it she can mend misunderstandings
and smooth out rumpled feelings.
With only a well placed word,
She can raise a downcast spirit."
Hug your friend today :-)Thursday, September 25, 2025
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