The rains are over and gone …

By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer Often on a summer afternoon, a verse from the Song of Solomon replays around my Colorado home. Gray clouds gather over the mountains, then roll down into the valley with thunderous roars and streaks of lightning. And twenty minutes later, “… the rains

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We Learn A Lot From Our Dads

By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer My dad taught me how to drive a tractor and a nail. He taught me how to start a motherless calf on a bucket by using my fingers, how to set irrigation pipe in the hot San Joaquin Valley sun, and how to

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An Important Life Lesson

By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer On Saturday, I took my three-year-old granddaughter’s birthday pictures and I learned something very important from her—other than the fact that Biderman is her best friend and Yucky Charms are her favorite cereal. I learned that no matter what you’re doing, whatever the

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Get a Different Perspective

By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer Sometimes we miss what’s right under our nose. Or above our nose, as the case may be. We take for granted what we are used to seeing and then we no longer see it. At least I know this happens to me. I

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