Hello my little group of readers. I have missed you. I have not written for awhile and that makes me feel sad and a bit paralyzed. How do you start back up? What do you say?

I have been doing well, but have had some big assignments on my plate that have taken up most of my time and energy. Most are complete now and I am getting ready to fly away for 10 days with the hubby. A little R & R in Dana Point, California and then we hop a flight up to San Francisco for our daughter Tracy's elopement at the San Francisco City Hall. Just family, just right.

I have so many things I want to write about and am making a commitment here to do so when I return from sunny California. I am always pondering the deeper things of life:

The election season, war, faith, friendship, calling, the soul ...

Aging bodies, aging parents, adult kids, lifelong friendships, loneliness, sorrow ...

Happiness, joy, weariness, wondering ...

Curiosity, kindness, compassion, feeling clueless ...

Phone addiction, materialism, anxiety, family ...

Wisdom, work, community, service ...

Gardens, nature, tasty food, simplicity.

And always, all things faith ... the church, American Christianity (!!), the radical love of Christ.

I don't really consider myself a writer, per se, just a human who thinks things and writes them down. I am honored that even a one of you reads my musings, and your comments always make me grin. A stupid kind of dopey grin ... I really like you all.

Enjoy these first lovely days of spring when everything feels fresh and new and full of possibilities. When flowers bloom all perfect and showy, when spring rain washes the whole earth clean, earthworms emerge from the muddy ground, birds sing in a showy concert. Enjoy every stinking minute of it, ok?

Sometimes, the best thing we can offer our Creator is our own unabashed joy at the ridiculous privilege of life on this blue orb.

More soon ... Alice at Dawn will be back, promise!!

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