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Important lessons from Mom 2-25-24

 The Most Important Thing I Learned from My Mom Flynn Family Story Slingers 24 February 2024 by Cary Holmquist The list that I could assemble for “the most important things I learned from my Mom” could likely take up a ream of paper or megabytes of memory—approaching nearly endless.  Just when I come up with one zinger of an item, then a dozen others upon which that one depend comes zooming in.  Almost universally, mothers are the first teachers we have—infants learn almost everything about the first basic actions for living from their mothers.  I have never heard that any person alive who knew more than their mother when they were born or even years beyond that.  Certainly I am no exception to that observation.  Even mothers themselves are under that mortal development. So contemplating this list gets me going about what could be the most important thing that my mother taught me. What would be at the top—or more significantly, at the bottom of that list. From the most basics
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What Lurks Behind the Clouds 2-11-24

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 What Lurks Behind the Cloud Flynn Family Story Slingers 11 February 2024 by Cary Holmquist Where I grew up was under the Big Sky Country, the East Side of the Continental Divide, where the Rocky Mountain Front to the west was more than 30 miles distant.  The Land of the Shining Mountains, as several native tribes called it, named for the bright Sun’s light reflecting off the snow or bare rock, depending on the season.  Those mountain peaks and jagged outlines blaze out until the shadows of evening crept over them like a dark blanket. To the south were the tall ancient volcanic lakes called Square Butte and Crown Butte, and the lower buttes called Floweree and Shaw Buttes.  And behind them the dark peaks of the volcanic Adell Mountains and eastward the Little Belt Mountains and farther east the huddled peaks of the Highwood Mountains. All around and to the north were no peaks.  A few low horizontal ridges we called bench lands, not at all flat—just try walking there and it be
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Childhood Toys --Jan 14, 2024

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  Story Slingers Myrna Flynn Toys or no Toys Way back, but not so very far back, there was a little girl who lived out in the country. Until she was 4 years old she had no one to play with but she did have a rag doll that her mother made for her. She named it Funny Face.  She did have a pet Chicken and a pet Sow. But she lost them both.  Chicken did not mind her when she said, "Chicken stay on the chair."She was running behind her and was caught in the door when the Little Girl closed the door. Her family decided to move to town and the sow could not come with them. The sow was given to her grandpa and grandma. When her Uncle Roy tried to get the sow onto the truck, the sow refused to go up the ramp. Little Girl had to go up first and call Sow up. She did not totally lose Sow because she could go visit  her once in a while. Moving to town, she was able to have friends. One was Jacky. He has lots of toy cars and trucks and a dirt pile (you have heard of sand piles). They would
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