Susan’s Thursday morning note September 26, 2024 The Lamplighter by Maria Cummins Prayer, Heaven, Goodness, Forgiveness Good morning! Silence except clicking of the keyboard. Deep black behind the curtains. My angel of dawn peering with a small lantern through the window not having to work very hard to encourage me to enter this beautiful fall…
Susan’s Thursday morning note August 26, 2021 Hope. Looking at ourselves in mirror. Analyzing self. “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” by Hannah Green Good morning! Still. Hot. Dark. Early morning with purring and clicking of keys the sounds entering the scene. Curtains are ready to be drawn where I will have the opportunity…
Susan’s Thursday morning note May 14, 2020 Keep Going: the Art of Perseverance by Joseph Marshall How to go through extremely difficult experiences. Good morning! Complete stillness in the trees as I watch the teasing among little squirrels who get the entire stage to themselves this early. A book sits to my right full of…
Susan’s Thursday Note April 16, 2020 Sioux Poem on Warrior. Thoughts on warriors. It’s not often I send a note on a Thursday evening, but it’s so quiet. Snow surrounding the house and in all the trees. One little squirrel running around in the yard whose mom kicked him out for an hour. One fat…
Susan’s Thursday morning note March 19, 2020 Streams in the Desert by HC Cowman Despair vs. Hope Good morning. So quiet. So still. This note is going to copy past Thursday note writings from books on despair vs. hope. I have tried to decide what to take out, but am not going, for I know…
Good morning. Dawn just about to make her appearance. My angel of dawn almost to my window to peer in and offer me another movement in my song called life. Quiet. Steaming coffee. Fall. Fields bare after harvest. A different silence seems to enter the scene. A silence in the birds. The trees. All so…
Susan’s Thursday morning note October 10, 2019 “I can’t go on. I go on.” Good morning! Silence broken by downpour. My angel is peering through my window with bright eyes reflecting light from my lamp on her wet face. Encouraging me to stop and be still and listen to the heavens awaking this morning…
January 24, 2019 Susan’s Newsletter – Work by Louisa May Alcott Dissatisfaction, dreams, hard life, and developing character through life. Work by Louisa May Alcott Good morning. Fingers numb from cold holding coffee mug and trying to type at the same time. Little squirrel friends sliding down roof above me – I can picture them…
Susan’s Thursday morning note October 18, 2018 Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (Surgeon & WW2 Concentration Camp Survivor) Finding meaning in our lives regardless of circumstances. Good morning! Stars and dawn all mixed together for a few moments to take away my breath and remind me to look to the heavens where the…
Susan’s Thursday morning note March 10, 2016 Time. Letting each day go, accepting all events. Myrtle Reed Quotes. Good morning. Surreal sound of Sandhill Cranes trying to interrupt my thoughts as they call down to me leaving for Canada this morning. Would anyone notice if I magically became small and traveled with them, to see…