by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 19, 2011 | Poetry
I really like this poem of mine. It comes from a story my dad has often told about a group of men digging a grave in the church cemetery where I grew up. My husband thinks it’s a little bit awful. What say you? MOURNING OR A MURDER OF CROWS Men gather when a...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 17, 2011 | Miracles, Nature, Thistle
We’ve been having that sort of perfect fall weather when it’s in the 70s, the sky is a brilliant blue and the leaf color is at or near peak. How can you not go outside? So outside we went to hike in Pisgah National Forest with Thistle testing the limits of...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 14, 2011 | Miracles, Reading, Thistle, Waiting
We’re continuing to work our way through Saturdays With Stella in my Sunday School class. It’s a book that takes the lessons author Allison Pittman learns in her dog’s obedience classes and applies them to our relationship with our Master–God....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 12, 2011 | Miracles, Reading, Waiting
After writing Monday’s post, it occurred to me that Carlotta Ratts was a sufficiently unusual name that I might be able to track her down via the Internet. So, I did a search and here’s what I found out about the woman who once owned my copy of Longfellows...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 10, 2011 | Reading, Waiting
I love to give used books a good home. I try to support my favorite living authors by buying their books, but, well, Charles Dickens probably isn’t worrying about his sales. And my copy of David Copperfield from 1850 is so lovely with its blue boards printed...
