During this work-from-home year, we have had the great good fortune of living in two places at once. Our farm is only thirty-five minutes from our suburban home, so we commute back and forth a lot. There are advantages to both. Here in the suburbs, I love chatting with Stacy next door. I appreciate the convenience of a garage, and of course the array of nice shoes, high class chapstick, and probably a thousand books. Not to mention the biggest perk: television!
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This is a three-part story that really has nothing to do with the pretty photo above until the very end.
Many years ago, I took my young nephew to see Thomas the Tank Engine, a horrid film made expressly to lull adults to sleep. Which is exactly what I did. Who knows how long I’d nodded off but something startled me awake, and good thing too, as my little nephew had disappeared from his seat next to me. Nothing ruins a nap like a missing child.
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