Sure as Frogs Croak and Cows Bellow

Sometimes, we read books for entertainment and other times we read books for information. And, if we're lucky, we read books that change our lives. My good friend suggested I read Cold Sassy Tree. I'd heard a lot about this novel when I was in college. When my friend suggested it to me this past weekend, I immediately went and picked it up and gave it a shot. Man, am I glad I did. What an amazing piece of art. I've never met another character that I've so easily identified with as Miss Love. And to be loved the way that Rucker loves Miss love toward the end; wow! This is an excellent book and if you haven't already read it, take my word, it is beautiful.

Five things I'm grateful for -

1. Cold Sassy Tree

2. Simplicity

3. Heating blankets

4. Cold Pillows

5. A Sound Mind

Top five memories as a child -

1. Laying in the middle of a field by myself watching the clouds for hours and hours

2. Lightening striking our house and watching the appliances blow up

3. The tornado of 1988

4. California 1994

5. The day my brother was born

"We can ast for comfort and hope and patience and courage . . . and we'll git what we ast for. They ain't no gar'ntee thet we ain't go'n have no troubles and ain't go'n die. But shore as frogs croak and cows bellow, God'll forgive us if'n we ast Him to." Rucker ~ Cold Sassy Tree