Category Archives: Family

A Rainy Monday

Posted on 2018/05/28 by JimR, Chaplain

What else can be added to a note with this title.  I personally find it a day to reflect a bit.  My eyes opened this morning around six fifteen with the morning light peering in around the window curtains, and … Continue reading →

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Dangling Participle

Posted on 2017/11/25 by JimR, Chaplain

I’m nowhere near the end, although I know some people who would consider me knocking on death’s door. Continue reading →

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Memorial Service

Posted on 2017/06/30 by JimR, Chaplain

Last evening I attended the Memorial Service for virtuous woman I’ve known since 1977.  Mrs Carolyn Cox Rand, wife of Nathaniel Rand, who preceded his wife in passing a couple of years ago. I met this couple when I had … Continue reading →

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My Grandparent’s Home

Posted on 2017/03/16 by JimR, Chaplain

Once upon a time in a seemingly far away place I picture standing on my grand dad’s and grandmother’s front porch at the steps looking through the line of crepe myrtle trees out to the main dirt road.  There were … Continue reading →

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The Horse and Cart

Posted on 2015/12/11 by JimR, Chaplain

One of my cousins recently posted on my Facebook page a picture of my granddaddy sitting on a horse cart with a mule hitched to it. He looked cool sitting up there. Grandmother has written on the back of the … Continue reading →

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FOOLISH POSITIONS IN LIFE

Posted on 2015/11/06 by JimR, Chaplain

As I’ve reached sixty-five years of age I found some things in life are foolish. One of those things that became foolish to me years ago was trying to make someone realize they were living down a wrong path. I … Continue reading →

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Ramblings of an Uncommon Nature

Posted on 2014/10/30 by JimR, Chaplain

Thursday morning, 30 Oct 2014. Libby is “singing” in the kitchen. I don’t know if “Whoa, oh, oh, oh counts as such, but it is melodic. Running water in the sink helps, I suppose. I have Fiesta to my left … Continue reading →

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Molly

Posted on 2014/06/03 by JimR, Chaplain

I remember the days in the 50’s and 60’s when we left the door to the house unlocked all the time and the keys were always in the car or truck.  There was one lady in our neighborhood who had a … Continue reading →

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That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It

Posted on 2013/12/08 by JimR, Chaplain

I talked with my recently deceased brother’s partner in life last evening. I perceived her loneliness during the conversation. She’s a good woman and had been with him for at least twenty years I would suppose. He’d been married twice … Continue reading →

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Jars of Memories

Posted on 2012/11/21 by JimR, Chaplain

A little old lady shuffles across the floor passing her dogs which lie peacefully on the rugs scattered about the old home’s otherwise bare hardwood floors.  She carries in her heart this day the memories of life experiences that fills … Continue reading →

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