{i come from a long line of vegetable gardeners and i'm excited to be growing half runner beans once again! frank, if we get a good crop ya' want some??}
{ali devised some sort of complicated system involving markers and toothpicks to keep track of her new garden companions. i just stayed clear of the proceedings!}
{when i went to our precinct yesterday i knew there wouldn't be much for a democrat to vote on. the tiny little old lady at our precinct table asked which ballot i would be voting. when i answered democrat {in an overwhelmingly republican county} she slyly winked at me and mouthed the words "thank you!"}
{this part of an art piece i'm working on for church. it's a sermon series based on the story of the prodigal son. the book is called the prodigal god and it's blowing me away. here's a quote for the day –“you can escape god through morality and religion just as much as you can escape God through immorality and irreligion. . .”}