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-19 Wind Chill, Driving Home from Crab Orchard, Ky. Short trip to town. Brrrr

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Hi…Thanks for checking in. I live in rural Kentucky, moving from Louisville in 2016. I have a small degree in pastoral theology, studying and pastoring in the U.K., from 2000 to 2009, then in the U.S. until 2012. I am now a part-time driver for the local Amish community. I’m making an honest effort to write more, to write out some thoughts on the spiritual life, occasional comment on current events (I’m apolitical, so not much there), and with some emphasis on my life in recovery from addiction. And then there are those marriages and divorces, not for the sake of raking dirt, but for support for others and perhaps a little for myself. In living, like gardening, I tend to follow the seasons of life.

8 responses to “-19 Wind Chill, Driving Home from Crab Orchard, Ky. Short trip to town. Brrrr”

  1. Sasha/Sonya Sargeant Hitchner Avatar
    Sasha/Sonya Sargeant Hitchner

    Ah, that was a nice drive you took us on. I can’t imagine that much cold. I did go to Montana once in the winter and it was all covered in snow. it is lovely, but I agree with the dangerous part. I am glad I didn’t have to drive through the snow. I found a few horses that reminded me of first nation type horses. All I had for a treat as they came to the fence to greet me was strawberries and … they pulled their noses up at those. Now if I had apples, that might have been the beginning of a lovely friendship.
    Happy Christmas.

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      janalanmckenzie

      Christmas blessings to you too. Still very cool and haven’t been out this morning but they say it will warm up again over the next few days. As much as a 60° difference by next Friday.

      I’m hoping to make a video or two today, something on Romans 3:21.

      I’ve been writing but only in my journals. I’m doing long hand with my fountain pens these days, but I also use my laptop. I keep telling myself to write something for this blog. You keep giving me inspiration in that direction.

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      1. Sasha/Sonya Sargeant Hitchner Avatar
        Sasha/Sonya Sargeant Hitchner

        I am glad I inspire you to blog. I love your videos. You sound so calming and it feels like I’ve always known you. Maybe you were a brother in another life time. As to writing in long hand …I would say snap except I don’t know have my fountain pens anymore, but I have a very close copy. A pen with lose it flowing ink unlike other ball point pens. I and enjoying planning blog on long hand with this pen and then tying it on my laptop again. It blew up and after repairs I stopped using it. But its much nicer than tip fingering and dealing with auto correction and suggestion which is just nuts.
        We have just pulled the house back into order after Henry’s family left. Now we will watch carols and things on TV until we cant anymore. I’m ready for bed myself.

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        janalanmckenzie

        I will happily buy you a fountain pen and some ink if there’s a way to deliver it directly. Count it as a Christmas gift. Could I do this with Amazon in South Africa? Or some other online service? Of course you would need some good paper too. Pen, ink, and paper, as you know, are wonderfully tactile things when the combination is right.

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      3. Sasha/Sonya Sargeant Hitchner Avatar
        Sasha/Sonya Sargeant Hitchner

        Indeed. I had a number of pens and each had a different color ink in it. My journals were covered is ted corrections as more information adjusted my opinions and green she I was proved correct. Wrote them for my children and the in 1994 had to throw them away, about 25 books full of quotations and discoveries when we went to live in England. I lost everything I held dear in that move.

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        Sasha/Sonya Sargeant Hitchner

        I have no idea how you could deliver such a think. In this case the thought is a great gift. Thank you.

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        janalanmckenzie

        I’m sure there’s a way to get a fountain pen in your hand. I hate the idea of wanting one and not being able to have one. A writer’s thing, I know.

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      6. Sasha/Sonya Sargeant Hitchner Avatar
        Sasha/Sonya Sargeant Hitchner

        ,,😍

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A Christian, thinking, vlogging, and writing online. I live elsewhere as well. I follow the theology of the cross in the faith and practice of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Formerly a pastor in Europe and America, now living semi-retired in Kentucky (U.S.), driving for the Amish and in-home carer.

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