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Weeds, like difficult people, serve a purpose

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Suzette Standring

Weeds, labor-generating and vexing as they are, serve a purpose. Eventually, they break up unworkable soil. Then they are removed or replaced, just like troublesome folks in our lives. Yet we grow from conflict. Twenty years ago, there was a garden patch of dry, clay-like soil when we bought our home. Only weeds sprouted there, and I wondered, “How do…

Mothers Day: She’s giggling in a Heavenly Somewhere

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Suzette Standring

I miss my mom, and out in a Heavenly Somewhere she’s giggling because I’ve circled back to faith. It’s been years on the threshing floor separating the chaff from grain. Years ago, my parents Esteban and Josepha emigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines and Americanized themselves as Steve and Josie. My mom practiced her faith with fervor, never missing…

Earth Day: She still needs better loving

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Suzette Standring

Earth Day was founded in 1970 and Mamma Earth, our vivid, blue ball in space, still needs better loving. Last year recorded 7.6 billion people on earth, which can only sustain 9-10 billion based on available resources calculated by Edward O. Wilson, the father of sociobiology. Global habitation will choke before 2050, when the predicted population will be 11.8 billion,…

My husband fell from a ladder: a cautionary tale

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Suzette Standring

March 24, 2019 David’s in the hospital. He fell off a ladder in Falmouth trying to clean the roof of our home. Eight feet up, he was trying to scrape lichen off the roof when the ladder slipped back. He fell face first, his nose hitting the rung of the ladder, leaving multiple facial fractures. He wandered into the house,…

Meaghan Markle: How to handle racism royally

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Suzette Standring

(Photo from sugar pop.co.uk) How does one weather racist hatred on social media? On-line trolls are attacking the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, whose first child is due in April. Last year, an image called for Prince Harry to be shot for being a race traitor for marrying Meghan Markle, according to a March 10 NPR interview. The palace has pre-blocked…