by Don Freeman | Jul 31, 2021 | Devotional
a throwback to a bygone era*, when at the full-service gas pumps It could be that I’m the only strange one who has joy-filled recall that is, paradoxically, closely attached to unpleasant odors. If you say the word, ‘lavender,’ my brain instantaneously forages...
by Don Freeman | Jul 29, 2021 | Devotional
It’s summer, and that means butterflies, those amazingly beautiful insects flitting around gardens and flowers and plants everywhere. I’ve read that there are 20,000 species of them. The famous Monarch makes an annual 4,000-mile migration (round trip) to avoid the...
by Don Freeman | Jul 27, 2021 | Devotional
They come in many forms. A poet pens one and calls it an ode. A family composes one following a death and it’s called a eulogy. Friends sometimes lampoon a favorite buddy at a ceremony called a roast. The film industry compiles one as an homage. A nation, on its...
by Don Freeman | Jul 24, 2021 | Devotional
On any given street in any given neighborhood anywhere in the world, life’s parade is on the march. At one house, a new baby has just come home from the hospital. At the next, a couple is dividing up a household as the divorce becomes final. At the third, frenetic...
by Don Freeman | Jul 22, 2021 | Devotional
Here, in coastal southeastern Virginia, we have an unusual situation with our one main highway, Interstate 64 (affectionately, or otherwise, known simply as ’64’). Its even number indicates an East-West roadway. But for ‘Southside’ locals (those living in Norfolk,...
