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The End of the Yellow Brick Road
When One Door Closes, Another One Opens When you go Over the Rainbow, you find yourself on the Yellow Brick Road. It is high adventure. It is also perilous, dark in places, and beautiful beyond imagining in others, and always a Challenge. I find myself, and our little shop on the Edge of Eternity, reaching the end of that Road before long. I think I’m ready to go Beyond the Yellow Brick Road [Thank you, Elton John!].
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The Magic of Christmas
Sugarplums Dancing— Long Ago and Far Away I wonder how many of you remember that Feeling, that special Magic that fills Childhood [if we’re lucky] Christmas’ with joy and wonder and awe? I still remember it very well. I have carried that Feeling, that Magic, with me for all the decades since my sisters and I were small. That was in the 1960s, a simpler time on the surface perhaps, but also one of strife, of racial and sexual bias, hidden abuses, the everpresent threat of war, and monsters that weren’t always under the bed.
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Texas Style
July Fourth Celebration~ Who doesn’t love a Parade? And there’s nothing like the kind of celebration that gets repeated all over Small Town America every Fourth of July. There’s something about a Summer Holiday— think Watermelon, Hot Dogs, Beer, Popsicles and Hamburgers. Fireworks on a hot, sultry night, and a Parade that goes right down the Main Street of Town. Let traffic wait while sirens sound, horns blat and people line the Street in folding chairs and the beds of pick-up trucks.
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Almost Famous— Again
Nah! Just Joking — But Featured So grateful to be interviewed for Bold Journey Magazine/Website. Many thanks for the opportunity to tell my story (Bold Journey is a space to share stories and learn from each other’s experiences.) I went into it thinking that it would be similar to the article we did on Canvas Rebel last October, but it a was a quite different format. To tell the truth, it got me a little out of my comfort zone on several levels, and it’s always good, in my opinion, to shake things up every…
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Make Time
Instead of Resolutions~ I have nothing against New Year’s Resolutions— except that I seldom Keep one in the long run. I do start every year with certain Goals in mind though. However, I don’t kick myself if I fall short or am unable to fulfill my sometimes too ambitious plans. If I have discovered anything in Life, it is that it has to be an organic process, that we each evolve and transform at our own speed, and sometimes in directions that we never anticipated. I have written on this Website during these last three…
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Anticipating the Holidays
At Over the Rainbow, we have a very nice selection of gift ideas, holiday cards and some wrapping paper, Christmas décor, both new and vintage, that you won’t find anywhere else around here, and much more. We are small but we pack a mighty amount of merchandise into this space. We’d love for you to visit and shop. We’re decorated inside for the holidays already, and by next week we’ll be lighting up the night [though always mindful of the Dark Sky Initiative that is keeping our area one of the most beautiful for stargazing…
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Just a Small Town in Texas
July 4th Parade in Fort Davis~ Gallery of Photos from the Coolest Fourth Parade on July 1st, 2023
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Fourth of July Weekend
West Texas Celebration~ Well, is everybody ready for #Fort DavisTexas Coolest Fourth Festival (See the Chamber of Commerce Website for complete schedule). We’re especially looking forward to the Parade tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 10:00 am. We’ll be at the store early for anyone who wants to shop as well. Somewhere Over the Rainbow will be open Friday and Saturnday (June 30th and July 1st) until 6 pm, and Sunday 11 to 4 pm (or later if we still have shoppers). We’re planning regular hours on Monday the 3rd and Tuesday the 4th (but again, we’re…
