My Lovely Dwelling Place

Impossible Situations Oh, the challenges of physical fitness!  Attempting to get in shape can feel like an impossible situation - finding time to exercise, finding an exercise that doesn’t hurt me, and following through with whatever that is – yikes!  It is not easy.  I was accompanied on my walk this morning by the village street cleaner.  I left my house and there he was with his big noisy truck.  We turned up the same street.  He even backed up when he got ahead of me.  Now he was after fallen leaves, not my companionship, but it was disturbing all the same.  Anticipating his choice of street to turn off on, I exited a different one, but there he was again when I rounded the corner.  Now I am thankful that I live in a nice area that takes street cleaning seriously, but his presence reminded me of the unexpectedness of life.  We try our best to avoid problems and unforeseen circumstances only to round a corner and be faced with the same. I’ve been praying on my walks, us

Elections and Thyroidectomy In the last two weeks we’ve gained a surprising, controversial president-elect and I’ve lost a thyroid.  What could these two things have to do with each other?  Well, the whole process has been a real pain in the neck!  But convalescing leads to reading or watching various news items between old movies that bring comfort.  Funny, the phrase that has caught my attention is “Love Trumps Hate.”  This is an ironic saying coming from folks who are beating those that disagree with them.  It is even more bizarre that these same folks are longing for safe places as they block traffic, vandalize personal property, and burn things – like our flag. In the words of the immortal Indigo Montoya of Princess Bride fame, “I don’t think that word means what you think it means.” I thought to myself – I must not know what this phrase means.  It must be code or something for throwing a tantrum when one doesn’t get one’s way. So, I looked it up.  It is supposed