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Day Fifty-Seven “Enemies Without” Part One

October 5, 2019 by Cathy Winkle

Our property line is edged by a cement block wall, separating our lawn and the neighbor’s driveway. Soon after we moved into our home, that three-foot-high wall collapsed into a heap onto our neighbor’s driveway. A crew was immediately sought out to repair and to rebuild that retaining wall. The job was long, tedious, and expensive, …

Day Fifty-Six “Shameless”

October 4, 2019 by Cathy Winkle

It’s midnight. The family is settled, the animals are bedded, the work of the day, completed. Then an unexpected knock on the door disturbs the stillness and quiet of the night. Wake up, friend, please, wake up! I have guests and nothing to offer them, I need to borrow some food. Help me, please! The …

Day Fifty-Five “Strength Building”

October 3, 2019 by Cathy Winkle

It was grueling, painstaking work, but the future use of my arm depended on what I could accomplish in this gym. After extensive rotator cuff surgery and weeks of enduring immobilization in a sling, muscular atrophy had sapped all the strength from that injured arm. Toning and rebuilding those sleeping muscles would be painfully slow, …

Day Forty-Seven “Outnumbered”

September 25, 2019 by Cathy Winkle

When facing a battle, I think we would all agree that if given the choice, we would choose to be on the team that had the best chance of winning. Whether an army marching to face an enemy on a battlefield, or a high school football team facing a crosstown rival, or a last-minute …