Labor Day is approaching.
Children have gone back to school already or they will be going back to school very soon.
Metal detectors and a police presence is the norm in the wake of school violence.
More programs, varied curriculum, and much testing to measure their progress.

God is nowhere to be found in our public schools.
The locks that are to keep the intruders out is thought to keep Him out as well.
In God’s place is the idolatrous god of humanism.
We have put ourselves in the place that belongs solely to Him.

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I had to buy new pillows.
Wouldn’t it be nice if pillows could stay plump and fluffy?
Over time, they tend to get flat and uncomfortable.

Pillows are a personal thing.
Children going to camp bring their own sleeping bag and pillow.
Travel pillows attached to suitcases, help those on a journey rest their weary head.

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We have had a very rainy summer.
Records have been broken and new records set in the amount of rain that has fallen.
It has been terribly hot and humid.
Not my kind of weather.

I am a fall and winter kind of person.
Fire in the fireplace; reading a book under a blanket.

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Can you imagine if a hidden camera followed you around each day?
Can you imagine sitting down at the end of the day and going over the dailies?
Would you be embarrassed?
Would you laugh?

If only there was a camera following me as I vacuumed.
I was going along, finishing our family room, and I saw a long thread on the rug.
I went over it with the vacuum and it was still there!
I went over it again, from another angle, and it remained firmly ensconced in my carpet.

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I remember my grandmother’s basement.
Steep steps led down to a low ceiling-ed cement cave.
Or so it seemed to me as a little girl.

There was that familiar basement smell.
There were many odd noises.
The old furnace was tucked way in the back corner.
I would never go over there.
It was too dark…too shadowy.

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There is a cabinet in our family room that was always a favorite of my children.
It was the cabinet they would go to when their younger sibling was taking a nap.
It was the cabinet with checkers and chess, UNO and Dutch Blitz.
It had crayons, markers, Scrabble, magnetic letters, flash cards, tangrams, and puzzles.

I opened the cabinet the other day because I was looking for my clipboard.
I saw a game that I had forgotten about.
NO PEEKING.

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I happened to watch an old Little House on the Prairie episode.
It is one of my favorites, called The Legacy.
It begins with a couple driving to a barn sale.
An old table is one of the items up for auction.

It is a beautiful piece with initials imprinted under one of the drop leaves.
The woman really wants to have this table and begins to bid on it.

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A derecho is in the forecast.
The word, derecho is Spanish meaning, “straight”.
A derecho is a straight-line wind storm with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms.

We have our weather maps and our satellite storm tracking.
We have our signs.

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