Reflections From a Country Girl

Have you even taken the time to look inside your house from the outside? I mean really just stopped to take a look inside?

I was listening to the radio again today on the way to a meeting when the country song, My Front Porch Looking In came on. LoneStar sings about finally owning a little piece of land where he can see the sun rise and the moon lay on the fences.

He then does something that, I suspect, many of us have not taken the time to do. He turns his head and takes a look inside to see what it looks like there. It’s in that moment that he sees the most beautiful view he says he’ll ever see…a family he adores a woman he loves.

While many of us do not fit the bill of the traditional family and we may even live alone, what does the inside of our home say about us?

There are many quotes from the movies that have stuck with us thought the years. We use them when the time is appropriate. The movie Poltergeist (1982) had a particularly interesting saying that has stuck with many people. Though the movie is definitely not a “holiday movie” the saying can be appropriate around the holidays. […]

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