Featured: The dissolution of a dream ...
A big, beautiful spider has set up her home outside my kitchen window. I have grown attached to her presence and greet her each morning, watching her work or sleep while I take my first few sips of coffee. For those who hate spiders, I see you. But she is where she belongs (outside) and […]
Seems right, as summer begins, to ponder a bit of writing from Henry David Thoreau: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that […]
"It's not for me to judge the gifts I have to offer the world, but it is up to me to summon the courage to offer them. There are as may ways to be of use and to express our love as there are people on this earth. Some save lives in emergency rooms while […]
"The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still." (Moses, speaking to Israel at the Red Sea -- Exodus 14:14)
One of the main reasons we don't slow down is that when we slow down our demons emerge. This just happened to me. I have taken some intentional time off, and as always, the darkness closed in. I figure when this happens, I have three choices: 1. Get busy! Nothing like a packed schedule and […]
I have been working on a health-related issue lately. Part of my "work" involves making sure I include certain things in my diet: more calcium, more potassium, more magnesium, etc. Here's what I've noticed. I can make a list of all the foods I am "supposed" to eat on a daily basis, and somehow because […]
