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Golden-Thread Moss
Possibly "Golden Thread-moss" See second photo (below) for size. These are remarkably tough. I'll have to "liberate" some for my moss garden if I can find a patch in a location where they'll never be missed ...
Boulder at Morris W. Levy Memorial
At the little-known Morris W. Levy Memorial. It's a group of boulders and a plaque in my favorite dewberry field ...
Lake Images With Poetry
Flowers In The Shadow
UNJAUNDICE VISION Only in the shadow
Was the yellow light
Sufficiently subdued
For us to welcome
Beauty unforeseen. — Brad Hepp, 2/22/2020 There, now I have tied this to the conversation I was having with a friend when I took the photo. We were pondering how weakness and inadequacy may ...
Was the yellow light
Sufficiently subdued
For us to welcome
Beauty unforeseen. — Brad Hepp, 2/22/2020 There, now I have tied this to the conversation I was having with a friend when I took the photo. We were pondering how weakness and inadequacy may ...
Grief Will Always Out
This scene, and the words I attached to it, is extremely moving to me. I guess that by my age, there is a lifetime of grief that will not go away in the short term. As a friend wrote, there are "So many missing springs." Indeed. I can never see ...
A Day Too Short
Commentary I'll be hard-pressed to fully explain this one, but let me try by recounting the occasion: I had been praying for a friend's father for about a year. He was a brilliant man whose mind and health were failing. My repeated prayer was that God would give him enough ...
Celebrating the First Week of Advent
This Advent mindset doesn't come easy for me, but I'm trying.... When I say "Let's not pretend," it's myself I'm talking to. Being a "glass one-fifth full" guy, I frequently gloss over my own disappointments. And I ignore the suffering of others all too easily. But I'm convinced that God ...
