Category: Ponderings
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Glorious Creation
~ a pondering ~ I like slow mornings. Sipping my maple syrup coffee, eating my crunchy peanut butter and honey toast, and dreamily staring through my slider as the sun greets me with a beautiful hello. Recently, I was quite enchanted with its glorious greeting and wanted to share… Glancing up from my morning reading,…
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Grief touches us all
~a pondering (from last night)~ Pulling up to the intersection, I was stopped by the red light. The north wind blew so strong the flag in front of the church was held in a perfect upright position. That’s when I noticed the bird. Just higher than the flag, off to the right. Wings spread wide.…
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An Uncommon Path
~a pondering (from last week)~ It is mid-March in West Michigan, and we’re having an unbelievable week of sunshine and warm temperatures. When I went outside to get my mail, the shining sun was so gorgeous that I felt a walk around the neighborhood was fate. Michigan’s winters tend to be dreary and drawn out—damp,…
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Embracing the Slow: A Lesson from Natural Peanut Butter
~a pondering~ If you’ve ever opened a jar of natural peanut butter, you’ll see about an inch of peanut oil sitting on top of the creamy goodness. The daunting task of mixing that delicious slop kept me from enjoying the natural alternative for many years. But as my consumption ways have continued to grow more…
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Fireworks, baby …
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU! New beginnings are my jam.And all endings are new beginnings, so …I supposed they’re my jam as well! This year I plan to create my own fire, works! What about you? Here’s a few songs to kick off this beautiful year of 2025 … “Forever Young” by Rod Stewart –…
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Dawn
~ a vignette ~ I like to read on my lunch hour, outside. Reclining in a beach chair, grounding myself. Bare feet resting upon the silky grass. Today, a new friend buzzes by, joining me. She let her presence be known, when out of the corner of my eye, I caught the sight of something…
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The Sage
~ flash fiction ~ The line was long. One by one they came, andsat before the sage. They spoke, he listened. They left.The next entered. Day in. Day out. Years passed, things continued as was the norm. Then a young girl came. She sat, he listened. She listened,he inquired. She inquired, he spoke.Day in. Day…
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Always With You
~ a vignette ~ Hues of pink and purple, yellow and orange rise above the horizon, displacing the darkness of night. The twinkling lights fade into the brightness. Everything we were, everything we had, like that shining sun. Even on rainy days we danced. Life may have taken us to unexpected places, but love always…
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Odd-Shaped Doorway
~ a vignette ~ Clouds filled the sky. Dark and stretched out like melted pencil lead leaking across the top third of a painting. The bottom third displayed unmoving treetops as if someone pressed pause on the sky’s remote control. The middle though was fluffy and bright white with a short, elongated triangle of celestial…
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Procrastination Befriends Excuses
~ a vignette ~ The sunroom was thick and heavy. Though the sky had opened and shed rapid tears, the humidity remained. The oscillating fan swiveled my direction every sixteenth second, teasing me with a soft, warm breeze. I reached for my iced tea, condensation speckling the glass like droplets of water on my body…
Angel K Will 