New Adventures

July 25, 2008 - Written by Wendi Kelly

 

Welcome to our new home here at Life’s Little Inspirations. Isn’t it exciting? I feel as if I am walking around in my socks in a great big lighthouse mansion on the hills overlooking the ocean. Right now there are lots of empty rooms and so much open space that …

A Lighthouse in the Storm

July 24, 2008 - Written by Wendi Kelly

My mother used to say that there are only two things in this world you can be sure of: DEATH and TAXES.

As I have gone along the path of life, I have discovered that there is a third unflinching item that …

Weeds

July 22, 2008 - Written by Wendi Kelly

Yesterday, I spent the entire day pulling weeds from the gardens. Great big piles of them. Some of those weeds had become larger than the flowers. I could feel them laughing at me as I tugged and pulled, as I muttered at myself, berating myself for letting things get so …

Big Erasers

July 18, 2008 - Written by Wendi Kelly

Last night, my youngest daughter came to me frustrated by something she was trying to draw. Irritated, she handed me the blue pen and the paper she had been working with. “fix it.” She cried. ” It isn’t working.” She had toiled with it past the point of polite requests …

Feet in the Sand

July 17, 2008 - Written by Wendi Kelly

Yesterday marked the middle of summer. How quickly the time is rushing by. If I had an hourglass of sand it would be draining down and I would be fighting the urge to turn it back over and begin again, making …