All posts filed under: The Human Condition

Look Up …

December 29, 2025
by Nancy Emeral
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Dogs / Farm Life / Living Authentically / perspective / The Human Condition

Outside it’s drizzling that ‘just above freezing’ damp, bone-chilling cold that I find particularly horrible. My dreams of a white Christmas went unanswered this year and maybe that’s a perfect ending to a particularly difficult year for both our country and for the world. I’ve tried reminding myself how badly we need rain here in Eastern Washington. Nice try, but the truth is, its yucky outside and no amount of pasted-on optimism is going to […]

Feeding Wolves …

December 18, 2025
by Nancy Emeral
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Family & Legacy / Living Authentically / The Human Condition

My freshly cut Christmas tree is sparkling with tiny white lights. Every short needled branch boasts feathery birds, crystalline balls, handmade bird houses, and an odd assortment of miniature teddy bears, bells, and shiny stars collected over a lifetime. It’s gorgeous.  Candles and strings of lights illuminate a shelf in our great room and a felted wreath hangs in between winter coats and hats on a clothes rack by the door. In the center of […]

I Choose the Blues …

August 19, 2025
by Nancy Emeral
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Farm Life / The Human Condition

I like blueberries. No, I actually love blueberries. If I were forced to have only one fruit for the duration of my life I would ‘choose the blues.’  Everywhere I have lived I have planted blueberry bushes, and sought out u-pick farms to satisfy my craving while waiting for my own plants to mature. That takes years. If you’re fortunate enough to move into a home with an existing mature patch, which I did many […]

One by One …

April 30, 2025
by Nancy Emeral
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Awareness / The Human Condition

It was one of those mornings when everything just seemed to be falling into place … The sun was shining, the coffee was just right, I had on my favorite jeans, my slice of bread came out of our finicky toaster perfectly, and the dogs went through their morning routine without a glitch. With list in hand (I’m big on list making) I set out for town to run errands. Even on the streets of […]

Lighten Up …

May 14, 2024
by Nancy Emeral
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The Human Condition

During the Pandemic I was, like so many of us, glued to the TV. CNN on speed dial. I carefully took note of all the suggested protocol involving contact with people, buying groceries, mask wearing, hand sanitizing, and donning disposable gloves whenever possible. I watched with horror the rising death toll and gruesome images of body bags stacked up inside refrigerated semi trucks to accommodate overcrowded morgues. Months passed. We grew accustomed to our new […]