by Carole Duff | Dec 23, 2024 | Faith |
My gift to you first appeared in The Sage Forum’s December 2024 newsletter. Carole Duff, flute, Carolyn Wallace, organ “He Shall Feed His Flock” from Handel’s Messiah Performed at Bethany Lutheran Church in Fishersville,...
by Carole Duff | Dec 16, 2024 | Faith, Family, Nature |
How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? Psalm 13:1 NIV Yesterday, snow and sleet yielded to lamentable cold rain. For those facing illness and death, their own or loved ones’, this is an apt description of the season. It...
by Carole Duff | Dec 9, 2024 | Faith, Family |
“So much good stuff here, so much good stuff to do at home,” I thought as I took this picture at Saturday morning’s Winter Market at the Rockfish Valley Community Center. Keith and I will sell our books at the Holiday Market next week—that’s it until next year or...
by Carole Duff | Dec 2, 2024 | Faith, Family |
“Ugh, Black Friday, I’d trade almost anything not to be shopping today,” I said to Keith. We were driving home from Thanksgiving with family in northern Virginia and backed up in traffic which was exiting for a large local shopping mall. Trade is about buying...
by Carole Duff | Nov 25, 2024 | Faith, Family |
This Thanksgiving Devotional of mine posted to The Sage Forum last Friday. Here I include pictures of my uncle making himself useful, my father with my uncle in professional clothes but obviously busy with another work project, and my uncle and dear aunt. Fond, fond...
by Carole Duff | Nov 18, 2024 | Faith, Nature |
I’ve tried to void leaves from the ditches along our driveway and down the mountain road, blowing them clean twice so far this year. But on our way to church on Sunday morning, I noticed more leaves had fallen into the ditches and culverts— “as if I hadn’t done...
