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There is a defiant daffodil in full bloom at the end of my driveway telling winter and despair to stand down. There is a baby, growing and forming in the womb of my niece, unaware of anything other than the reassuring beat of her mama’s heart and the fluid that protects and sustains her life.Continue reading “There is, Was, and will Always be Both”

We’re about to go through some hard times. I know that because yesterday I watched the news for too many hours and listened to enough gloom to make me panic.  I had to turn off the TV and search for some faith based direction. I felt led to a particular article, the contents of whichContinue reading “un·daunt·ed”

Uncharted territory.  We watch and wait. The world is different today than it was yesterday and it’s uncomfortable.  We are losing normal. This is not our first experience with this.  We have been here before. Each time there is a disaster and the devastation plays out in it’s stark reality, we’re reminded of the sameContinue reading “Holding Space”

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone”.   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe          This week I have used the word “beautiful” as a description for people, nature, furniture, emotion and a storefront parking space.   It might be possible to overuse the word.  But, finding and appreciating beautiful things is a practice worthy of repetition. TheocritusContinue reading “That is a Thing of Beauty”

I’ve been thinking lately about the concept of truly living into the space we occupy in this life and what that really means.  There are people – we know them, we might be them – who seem to fold in on themselves, somehow apologizing through their actions, body language or demeanor, for the person theyContinue reading “Mamba and Miracles”

Why have I decided to blog?  I read once that if you desire to write, and put pen to paper, that you are a writer.  It’s such a presumptuous thought. In my mind, a writer is someone who has published something, a masterful wordsmith who writes beautiful sentences that resonate and touch something in youContinue reading “Writing for One”