Gregory Patrick's Blog, page 6

A Prayer For My Little City

I definitely felt your prayers last night.  Most of my beloved Orlando is in immediate despair. Our landscape, like the rest of Florida, changed last night for good. Our numerous lakes and majestic oaks fell victim, plunging much of downtown into darkness. We are a city of swelling lakes and the crashing of oaks. The […]

Hurricane Houseguest

Well, as many of you know, we have a massive hurricane about to hit Florida in a few hours. Now, for the past few days we Orlandians have been a little complacent about it. Most models had Orlando getting the brushed side of it. Nothing more than 30mph winds and lots of rain. Not a […]

Alone on Your Anniversary

Full disclaimer. We BOTH forgot our anniversary. To be fair we’ve been in quite the maelstrom with Phillip’s training schedule. He tries to tell me what his schedule is 3 days in advance, when it changes so frequently. I stop him. “I just want to know what happens in the next 12 hours.” Some days […]

Sock Yarn Mana From Heaven

There was an early morning knock on the door…. I peeked out the kitchen window, just then having my first cup of coffee. Like an old man I scoffed, “Who the hell knocks this early in the morning?” I saw my mailman leaving.  I gathered a pair of trousers, stepped out front and found this […]

The Turning Point (and the ride to get there)

Oh, what a blessed day! Sitting here, trying to think of a strikingly penned opening for this blog post and I just can’t think of anything better than that. “Oh, what a blessed day!” Phillip finally got THE promotion at work that he has worked 5 years for. For the past two weeks he’s done […]

Foxhole and Garden

I was an absolute wreck the whole hour, a spinning top ready to spindle around the room out of control. I have not seen my sister in about 10 years and she was about to pull into the driveway. I had the front door wide open, ready to greet, but ready to retreat. If you’ve […]

An Homage To Merton

This Would Tickle Mr. Brown

I’ve been knitting socks for years, selfishly. I’ve never sold the before because I thought I considered knitting socks to be “knitting for me.” I don’t own any of my own knitting, or crochet for that matter. So, socks were always something that I got to keep for myself. But, the more I think of […]

What the Hell Happened to His Socks?

You may have asked why there are so many skeins of sock yarn on my amazon wishlist. Well, I have a plan. I’ve made about 8 socks in the last week or so, and I’m still working on more. I want to take a photograph of a pile of socks. Not just any pile, but […]

One Day, I say…One Day.

I pass this little house every day. I lovingly imagine a place of my own, just like this. A small patch of land, a one room cottage, and a fenced in porch for writing….He even has a few orange trees behind him. One day, I say….One day. I say this every day. Perhaps instead of […]