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I have 2170 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 5670337 times and 682 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1552 of my 13,433 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1601 votes

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Wisdom for the Rich

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Pressured, and troubled by increase of wealth, … Is it secured, will it be quite enough? Those who are envious don’t realise – it’s tough! …

Star Wars

Fame breeds jealousies … tongues claw and fight.
Cherry

Simple things

Busy, busy working frenzy … no time to spare to stop for simple things …

Soul Food

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Having fasted, Jesus, hungry heard the tempter tell him to ‘Turn the stones to bread, for You are God the...
Cherry

A Winning Handshake

Always in trouble, mischievous, gullible, embittered, a rebel – but sport brought a medal; in a dream he went forward to receive the award, extended his arm for the usual handshake …

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1552 of my comments have received 1601 Great Feedback votes

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the snatch of breath when a

Posted on Mon, 20 Oct 2014

the snatch of breath when a sunburst rips apart a darkening autumn evening sky.  Lovely picture.

Such moments still happen but unexpectedly, as the remembered little incidents and smiles in this, – going back we'd just store them...

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Posted in All in an Autumn Evening

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HI, Shannan. Sorry to hear

Posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2014

HI, Shannan. Sorry to hear things hav e been pretty tough.
Keeping up with friends on facebook seems to be a mixed blessing – you can catch up with the news they want to share, but for real friendship you need face to face friends you can...

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Posted in May you have a Facebook Rainbow

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You show how big the role of

Posted on Fri, 12 Sep 2014

You show how big the role of mother is. Rhiannon

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Posted in Mother

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Oh, that is so true. We don't

Posted on Tue, 07 Oct 2014

Oh, that is so true. We don't want to be carried away trying to keep up with all that gets posted, just enjoy what we can tackle when there is time!
Glad you enjoyed this little musing on the different kinds of movement all around us, which...

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Posted in Universal motion

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Congratulations on Pick of

Posted on Thu, 09 Oct 2014

Congratulations on Pick of the Week, Tina, and all those baskets of cherries!
You have such an eye for noticing the details of your situations and remembering them and communicating them. I was puzzled by your ref to Fleetwood Mac and the...

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Posted in Albatross

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and may the light and truth

Posted on Tue, 16 Sep 2014

Good to read your good longings and prayer, and may the light and truth of God's words make you to 'grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever! Amen'  (2 Peter 3:18)  and you will...

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Posted in Wisdom!

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I like it very much too, Tina

Posted on Thu, 04 Sep 2014

I like it very much too, Tina, and its butterfly attendants. Good to have the flowers when others have ceased. But I especially thought your juxtaposition with the vivid raw images of the neglected, defiled places which it so often brightens was...

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Posted in Reaching for the Sun

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Sounds quite a special

Posted on Sat, 30 Aug 2014

Sounds quite a special holiday. Rhiannon

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Posted in Holiday letter to Jess

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From the skies, and ceiling,

Posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2014

From the skies, and ceiling, to the intriguing descriptions of his home, I enjoyed the structure of this piece, and for a moment forgot what I would really feel like living there myself. The idea of the changing patterns of the trash was good too...

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Posted in Another Man's Treasure

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My mother-in-law, nearly 95,

Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2014

My mother-in-law, nearly 95, has had no real contact with hearing/seeing the news for a long time. She read something brief recently, and commented, 'who would have thought in this day and age'. I was quite taken aback, realising she had...

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Posted in One of a Kind

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