Avatar wrote:I deliberately chose the authentic local term just for you Sorus.
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I am pleased that you did.
Wow, Io, sounds like an adventure... I've had the heat/power out only once as an adult, and it was only maybe 4 hours on a very cold day, but I remember that day as CRAZY!
(lots more electricity outages as a child growing up in a rural place!)
Good to see you around!
Let's see... today was unusually peaceful and pleasant.
Had an online Bible study this morning, then lunch and school with the kids, and I've been cleaning the house.
Nothing spectacular, just stuff.
When I was loading the laundry, I was thinking wow, not long ago, the simple existence of housework that I had to do often offended me. Outraged me, maybe, sometimes. I was angry ALL the time. (or maybe anxious, or both.) And that's not so bad now.
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"