Thebarefootgypsy

06/13/2026

God can make a message out of our messes.

06/12/2026

06/12/2026

God, I don't always understand, but You do. And I will trust.
Buck Storm

06/12/2026

If it makes you happy. If it brings you joy...

Eat the cookie.
Buy the shoes.
Put up the Christmas tree.

Life is too short. Too full of external drama. Overflowing with messiness.

Enjoy what you enjoy. When you want to enjoy it. The last six years have given us more than a few sharp-jabbed lessons. This ought to be one of them. Somethings are not meant to be taken so seriously.

Celebrate National Peanut Butter Cookie Day on National Red Rose Day.

Surprise someone for their birthday...even if it isn't.

Go outside and play with bubbles or chalk. Make wishes on dandelions.

Sit outside and give the neighbors a free concert. Need a few suggestions?
"Don't Worry Be Happy"
"Livin' on a Prayer"
"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"
"God's Got the Whole World in His Hands"
"The Tennessee Bird Walk"

Decorate that Christmas tree today, yesterday, whenever. Call it a blessings tree...or a freedom tree and put flags on it...

Simply acknowledge you need some cheer right now.

We all do. So do it. Just do it.

Oh, by the way, there are no elf police who are going to show up and arrest you for putting holiday ornaments up in June.

06/12/2026

I am a wee bit scared of mice...terrified would be a better word for it. Over the years, I have written about my run-ins with these little, satan-filled rodents. This story happened a couple of years ago.

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I had a mouse loose in my living room and it was only three feet away from where I was sitting. It was entirely too close. A continent away would not have been far enough away, though, to be honest.

The end was near.

For me...not the mouse.

I was standing on my recliner, watching the play-by-play with my cat, Shegwa, and his newest frenemy.

The cat started growling.

Please God....kill the stupid mouse!!!!

Why was it not dead yet????

There was no escape. The cat and his half-dead friend had blocked my front door.

Shegwa was apparently giving the mouse mouth-to-mouth resuscitationin a bid to keep it alive longer.

Their tussle had turned into some sort of horrifyingly, terrible, surreal soccer match.

Oh, good grief, the goal line moved right in front of my chair.

I don't know if that counted as a basket or a touchdown, but the mouse was tossed in the air. Field goal? Three pointer?

I think I might have just peed a little.

It was dead. The mouse was now a cat toy.

Never mind...it twitched...somehow it was apparently still alive. How??? Why???

I didn't check for vitals to confirm anything. I didn't care if I was violating good Samaritan laws or not. I just needed it
gone.

I did not take a breath for over ten minutes and I was more stiff than the rodent.

It ended finally when my mom took pity on her pathetic daughter and rescued me.

I will never be that good a mom.

06/12/2026

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