Light and Dark Thoughts on Death
April 20, 2018[…] coffin and white flowers and the clothes she wanted to be buried in. She had planned to buy a new temple dress but had not gotten around to it. After considering a few alternatives, […]
[…] coffin and white flowers and the clothes she wanted to be buried in. She had planned to buy a new temple dress but had not gotten around to it. After considering a few alternatives, […]
[…] shop or from neighbor to neighbor, to borrow and return, to ask for help and give, to buy and sell, I saw him doing the truth and felt safe. One June dawn we drove […]
[…] salary for the previous three years had been $1200 out of which he had to live and buy chemicals, apparatus, and books. He also paid his father $40 per term beginning in 1880 to […]
[…] Watson said, was divided into two groups, “the rich, who have all the comforts that wealth can buy,” and the workers, who live in a world of “hunger, want, and crime.” Such a situation […]
My parents grew up conditioned toward racial prejudice—as did most Americans, including Mormons, through their generation and into part of mine. But something touched my father in his early life and grew constantly in […]
[…] of “splendidly dressed” Sioux warriors who “offered my husband a young squaw for me, and wanted to buy our children” (June 1848). In 1852, Mary Garner from England reported: I had long red curly […]
Perhaps others than Helen John, Amy Avery, Golden and Thelma Buchanan, and Spencer W. Kimball might have compounded an equally powerful scheme for blessing the lives of Indians, but to these individuals fell that lot.
[…] were not mourn ing, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal with the world as though they […]
[…] finally found solace in a most unlikely place. When I was a new convert someone suggested I buy Mormon Doctrine as it was a must in every LDS library. I did; but the longer […]
[…] had mixed up that morning on the kitchen table along with the dress pattern I had bought for my new niece. It had been months since I had felt this energetic, and so that […]