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Dear Friends,

I am adding a walk for ADA to my 29-day Giving Challenge, now several months in! The walk is October 5th. To see the sponsor page please go to my blog at http://www.lauriebethbeggin.blogspot.com and click on the link to my ADA webpage. You can see my story and check out the options for volunteering, starting a team and/or donating. I would deeply appreciate your time and energy to this cause.

With Gratitude,

Laurie… Continue

Philosophy



A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all… Continue

I've had a wonderful week here at The Olde Farmhouse...I gave strawberries away until there were no more to give, gave support to a friend who just lost her dear pet dog of 16 years and got SO much love and support from friends and bloggers...Just your everyday, run-of-the-mill wonderful! I've been busy introducing dragonflies for the garden and fleur-de-lys for the home and enjoying, FINALLY, enjoying some nice sunny skies here in the Midwest. We… Continue

These are beautiful! I have them printed out. My first gift is going to be to help the elderly lady up the road from us come here and pick strawberries from our patch. I gave her a quart of them a few days back and she road her bike down to our place to thank us. I offered to pick her some more but she said, noooo, she could pick them herself. So, bless her heart, she's coming to pick berries today. I'm going to give her a card....Mabye even snap a photo if she'll let me! Thank you Cami for… Continue