I am feeling super lazy and borderline cranky this morning…clearly that has carried over into this afternoon evening. I simply do not feel like writing today. And even though I conceptually love Wordless Wednesday, silence does not fit the mood I have been in since I woke up either. Happily I can avoid writing because […]
Composed Heartache
Thanks to my friend Lois, over at Midlife at the Oasis, I learned about Jen Kehl’s, Twisted Mix Tape. Last week the theme was, Music that Tells a Story, I missed it. (Bummer.) This week I am jumping in, the theme is, Your Cheating Heart–you know to honor all those achey breaky hearts out […]
Drive by Lunch
“I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.” – Mother Teresa After dropping off the girls who are part of the Sunday lacrosse practice carpool, Chandler wanted […]
Happy Birthday Dad
Today would have been my father’s 89th birthday. It doesn’t matter how many years pass, I miss him almost daily. As it happens, this morning finds me in Laguna Niguel, I am here because I was invited by the YWCA to share my story at their annual conference for executives. Needless to say it is […]
Sunrise, Music and the Day Ahead
Watching the sun, Watching it come Watching it come up, Over the rooftops… Cloudy and warm, Maybe a storm You can never quite tell, From the morning… And it’s going to be a day, There is really no way to say, No to the morning… Yes it’s going to be a day, There is really […]
Fall Day
The great lesson…is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life. In one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s back yard.–Abraham Maslow
Garden Refuge
There are images I lean on as if they were a cane when life and schedules seek to untether me from the essence of who I am. In those moments I seek refuge in a nearly meditative state. While there, my mind draws from an invisible well of haphazardly placed images—places, activities, people, which when […]
