What is your preferred mode of travel?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 14, 2023
routine errands
never routine
country roads
Kohler-Andrae State Park
Sheboygan County
Wisconsin State Park System
August 23, 2019
haiku and photos
Author: Ellen Grace Olinger
"He hath made every thing beautiful in his time..."
From Ecclesiastes 3:11a (KJV).
Mercy Acrostic Poem
If you had a billion US dollars, how would you spend it?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 13, 2023
M ay
E veryone who can
R emember and
C onsider
Y our children in need
MERCY
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 5: 7 (KJV)
small steps
What chore do you find the most challenging to do?
Bloganuary Prompt for January 12, 2023
small steps
one day at a time
sparrows in the yard
Hope to work more in the yard this year, at the pace that is right for my health now. Began again last year, with some work and an old chair for rest. Careful about the sun, and I wear sunglasses. Our gardens are mostly perennials. These are good years.
Bloganuary Prompt for January 11, 2023
How do you define success?
December 19, 2022 – 13 years since we began Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin. Blogs are a wonderful way to learn and create. I am growing older here, and grateful every day.
And Bloganuary again this year.
Bloganuary Prompt for January 10, 2023
Has a book changed your life? I pray the Psalms.
God be merciful unto us, and bless us;
and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
That thy way may be known upon earth,
thy saving health among all nations.
Psalm 67: 1 – 2
Bloganuary Prompt for January 9, 2023
What is the most memorable gift you have received?
G race
I nspiration
F aith
T rust
GIFT acrostic poem
Bloganuary Prompt for January 8, 2023
How far back in your family tree can you go?
In terms of my memories, the generation who lived before my parents. And some of their stories.
peaceful morning
a prayer from childhood
still with me
“peaceful morning” was published in Bundled Wildflowers, Haiku Society of America 2020 Members’ Anthology. Bryan Rickert, Editor. And was The Daily Haiku: Nov. 10, 2020 at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.
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