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FLIGHT
FLIGHT Flying high into the sky, Soaring free you and I. Look about over the earth, Higher and higher we can fly. Toward the sun,...
barbaradunton11
Nov 22, 20231 min read
A Beautiful Fall
The hollyhocks wilted with the first frost, but they do live on here, on this blog. I photographed the blooms as I emptied the twenty...
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Nov 15, 20231 min read
The Ranch
Lilly was ten years old when she became aware that there was more. The ranch had been her whole world up until that Monday in 1926 when...
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Nov 10, 202345 min read
The ranch
THE RANCH Lilly was ten years old when she became aware that there was more. The ranch had been her whole world up until that Monday in...
barbaradunton11
Nov 9, 202344 min read
We Do Love Our Pets
As my children grew up we always had an outside dog and cats that presented us with litters out back in the big old barn way too often....
barbaradunton11
Nov 1, 20236 min read
The Many Layers of Life
I have been called Bobby and Barbie and Barb. I have been called Honey and Dear and Babe. I have been Mom and Mother and stock clerk and...
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Oct 26, 20231 min read
Beginning
On a hot summer day in Texas, my fifteen-year-old head buried in a book, as usual, I sat draped over the arms of one of the living room...
barbaradunton11
Sep 26, 20232 min read
LOOK UP
I wake feeling grateful every day. I find myself interested and enthusiastic as I wake, casting my thoughts here and there checking on my family members. I want to be interesting and share with others. I want to know about each person that enters my life. Some come at the grocers, sacking, checking, or standing next to me in an isle considering cans of chili with or without beans. Some come through marriage to a member of my family, my large family. Some enter my life through
barbaradunton11
Sep 11, 20232 min read
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