I'll tell you a half-dozen things that happened to me in Indiana when I went that far west to teach. You tell me if it was worth it. I lived in the country with my dog— part of the bargain of coming. And there was a pond with fish from, I think, China. I felt them sometimes against my feet. Also, they crept out of the pond, along its edges, to eat the grass. I'm not lying. And I saw coyotes, two of them, at dawn, running over the seemingly unenclosed fields. And once a deer, but a buck, thick-necked, leaped into the road just-oh, I mean just, in front of my car— and we both made it home safe. And once the blacksmith came to care for the four horses, or the three horses that belonged to the owner of the house, and I bargained with him, if I could catch the fourth, he, too, would have hooves trimmed for the Indiana winter, and apples did it, and a rope over the neck did it, so I won something wonderful; and there was, one morning, an owl flying, oh pale angel, into the hay loft o...
O, thank you for a perfect description of my dreams also, photo too! I love what you've done with your blog design, including the "God's Athletes" portion of the other column. Since I'm a new reader/fan I wonder did you also recently add EMBRACE YOUR GRACE to your blog title? This is all darned close to perfect :)
ReplyDeleteThis picture is amazing....as is the quote. And I love your new blog name!
ReplyDeleteI'm not surprised you are one of our Earth's Angels, workig in the ICU as you do!
Hey thank you. I added writerquake to my links list, I enjoyed what I found over there :)
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