Best quote ever to start the weekend: The best reason to take your time is that this time is the only time you'll ever have. You must take it or it will be taken from you. It is telling that the phrase 'taking your time' is synonymous with slowing down. If we want to live […]
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake in the middle of the night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your […]
A few more insightful questions that have prompted reflection lately: 1. What's one small example of how you have "customized" your life for the better? (And, by "customized" I mean created unique rituals and habits that fit best with who you are and how you function) 2. What have your actions over the past year […]
I have been doing some good journaling during this cold snap in the Midwest. Here are a few prompts that have been so helpful to me: 1. What's one hard lesson you're grateful life taught you in the past year? 2. What's something you've moved on from that once meant the world to you? And, […]
No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear; but, grateful, take the good I find, the best of now and here. I break my pilgrim staff, I lay aside the toiling oar; the angel sought so far away I welcome at my door. For all the jarring notes of life seem blending […]
Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between "green thread" and "broccoli," you find that you have penciled "sunlight." Resting on the page, the word is beautiful. It touches you as if you had a friend and sunlight were a present sent from someplace distant as this […]
