I’m talking about Mommsen’s Pumpkin Patch, and if you live anywhere in the vicinity of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, surely you’ve heard of it. The perfect place to take your children on an autumn day when the air is crisp and apple-biting and sun pours from the sky like liquid gold. A couple of the teachers […]
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This past Monday evening the phone rang. Once, and then Mom plucked it from the receiver: the call we’d all been waiting for. She stood, listening intently, her cheeks lifted and eyes expectant with something that might have been excitement, or fear, or both. I knew her unspoken questions: Is Dora okay? the baby? And
Cheerfulness Mom gave me a journal once, green with red and yellow swirls, that says: “Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive.” –Johann Richter It seems to me that when speaking of children and friendship, with all our high-sounding talk of Love and Sacrifice and Discipline and Spending Time, we sometimes forget this
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Honest Imperfection I dislike perfect people. Always have. No matter how hard I myself may try to be smart, steady, kind, thoughtful, calm, collected, spiritual, loving, organized, and always right, I resent it when I see too many of these qualities in another individual. Or maybe it is my perception that they see these qualities
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Freedom I remember when we were teenagers, Dad told us, “You never have to listen to me if you don’t want to. If I tell you something you don’t want to do, don’t do it.” As a conscientious child raised to uphold the twin pillars of “Obey God” and “Obey your parents,” such a release
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