benevolence – Grandma's Gleanings

Day Three Hundred Twenty-Five “Natan”

May 31, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

Civic, level, madam, noon, race car, and wow would all class under the same definition, for they are all referred to as palindromes. The word palindrome is comprised of two Greek words, palin, meaning again or back, and dromos, meaning running, thus we have a palindrome, a word running back, the same word even when …

Day Two Hundred Twenty-Four “Plumb Line”

March 31, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

There was a crooked man…He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse; And they all lived together in a crooked little house. That about sums it up for us, except for the fact that we have four crooked cats that we didn’t buy, our fair share of uninvited crooked mice, but we …

Day Two Hundred Seventy-Five “The ABC’s of Aging” Letter B

March 18, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

One characteristic was a consistent mainstay in my mother’s life, and although her body weakened with age, her vision dimmed, and her memory faded, she maintained that precious quality to her last breath. Benevolence, a desire to do good to others; charitableness, defined my mom’s life. She was always willing to take from her …