Scatter the flowers

  Google photo "Ready or not, here I come. ~Jesus"  ~seen on a Colo. church sign 🗲 Hide & Seek - remember that game?  My younger grandkids play it & giggle or say something not realizing they are giving their hiding place away.  The excitement of being found gets the best of them.  And then we grow up... The other day I was having people over and to my shock & dismay some of them showed up early!  I have never had friends show up early - for half a century I've only known people that were late!   I was mortified- I was still dusting the giant dust mites (I think they're bigger in the mountains) off my furniture.  But that is one of the main reasons I entertain - it forces me to clean my house.  I will also clean if my baby grandkids are coming.  I no longer do it for health reasons for myself - no time.  Cleaning out the refrigerator is another thing I put off - unless of course I'm going to Costco and I'm trying to see if I have room to buy that

photo source   "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time."  ~ Thomas Jefferson   Freedom.  Yesterday, we 'celebrated' it.      Because of July 4th we drink more coffee than tea.  Phew!  Though I do love my tea parties. Webster defined it as  'the state of exemption of the power and control of another'. Sadly , to many, this word is watered down, superficially used and contemplated, exploited & taken for granted.  But to too many, in other places & times, this word is life altering, cherished, fought for, and sought after.     I, for one, have rarely been asked to give up my freedom.  In my mind, in my past, this has been someone asking me to stay after for another meeting, or making me wait for something- thereby robbing me of my time.  Not being able to speak my mind freely as a teacher felt restrictive to me.  I feel when I owe taxes the freedom to not be able to spend my money as I want is taken.  Or recently, not being able to go p