Right now I am enjoying a vacation with two of my oldest and dearest friends. This is our second year of taking a trip together and the beginning of a tradition I hope we keep honoring long into out golden years. We can be silly at times and dubbed our time the gathering of the […]
When is the last time you went dancing? There’s no right or wrong way to shake that booty—and doing it might very well be the health boost you need. I think that dance can be such a mentally healthy activity for anyone. Besides the physical health benefits, dance provides a mental health boost as […]
The hum of conversation clinking glasses -coffee cups The buzz of the grinder People rushing – people resting conversation and solitude The local coffee spot whitewashed, shiplapped old hardwoods with a story to tell I sit alone I search for an eye, maybe a smile waiting, hoping, searching I see…Mothers and daughters friends and lovers […]
Do all the good you can By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. John Wesley 2 Thessalonians 3:13 As for you, brothers, do […]
The word meditation can immediately conjure images of Buddhist monks in saffron robes or new-age beatniks in clouds of incense — which isn’t necessarily untrue. But meditation doesn’t have to be about religion or even spirituality, really. Meditation is about training your brain to bring your thoughts and feelings into awareness; it’s about examining […]
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. Loretta Young Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved […]
I took this photo of my Pit mix Willie on my cell phone. When I looked at it my mind immediately went to one of my favorite paintings, a Vermeer! You can see it above. When I saw this weeks challenge was life imitating art I remembered this photo. So here is MY life imitating […]
OUT OF DIFFICULTIES GROW MIRACLES. Jean de la Bruyere We all struggle with change, stress and difficulties in life. Things happen unexpectedly every day. What matters most however, is how we person react to change. Some people seem to be better than others at dealing with life’s inevitable changes and all the unexpected things that happen. […]
Yesterday began Lent in the Christian faith. Lent is a season of the Christian Year where Christians focus on simple living, prayer, and fasting in order to grow closer to God. It’s the forty days before Easter. Ash Wednesday usually begins with a service where we recognize our mortality, repent of our sins, and return […]
We all have had the 2:00am phone call. I don’t really even need to explain really do I? Sleeping and at peace, warm under the covers and perhaps dreaming. Then the rude intrusion. The jump, the heart racing, the panic and questions, the breaking through the fog to have clarity so you can find the […]
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