hearts

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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. ~ Thomas Campbell

I’ve pondered this view a lot in recent months. The building is George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters at Newburgh, New York. During his time, it was a sprawling farm overlooking the Hudson River, but today it’s boxed in by a city he never knew.

George Washington lives in our hearts because of the whimsy of history.Continue Reading

adventure or agony

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I don’t often write about my life before I met MTM, but I was an adult for fifteen years before we married. At twenty-two, I believed I ‘should’ be married. I engaged in a six-week courtship with a preacher-boy, said yes when he proposed, and married him five months later. Warnings screamed from all quarters, but I ignored them. This man was everything I believed a husband should be. I knew he’d make me happy.Continue Reading