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January 28, 2018
Sunday, January 28, 2018
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God I came across these words this morning and they stopped me. Last year was, for me, a year of unexpected answers and richness, yet from where I stood at the beginning I had no inkling of what
January 27, 2018
Saturday, January 27, 2018
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. Madeleine L’Engle The truth is that there are some ages I could do without. It’s been a rocky road. My twenties were brutal; but joy-filled too with the births of my children, so there’s that. My life was
January 26, 2018
Friday, January 26, 2018
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson I spend a couple of hours in the morning working downstairs in the woman cave. In that room, there’s a big south-facing picture window that looks out over the ridge; I’m busy, and don’t pay much attention
January 25, 2018
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. St Francis of Assisi I’m browsing through pages in my blog book from this time last year for fodder for a writing day. At the top of a page I come across the same words that have been dancing in my mind lately. The prayer of St.
January 24, 2018
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. Charles Dickens It’s almost the end of January and I am still having trouble adjusting to 2018. I’ve had to go back and correct the year on the majority of entries here this month. Days, sometimes a week, goes
January 23, 2018
Tuesday, January 23, 2017
The tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. . . . It doesn’t have to. It is different. Marianne Williamson Let’s be tulips today: unique and beautiful, strong in our story, ever-changing, simply ourselves. Yes?
January 22, 2018
Monday, January 22, 2018
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sounds like a good plan for a Monday as we begin again. But first, coffee: personally brewed and hand-delivered to my
January 21, 2018
Sunday, January 21, 2018
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder Inspired by spring-like days in the middle of January, I stop at the grocery store to see if the season has changed there too. There, I find the most beautiful pale pink tulips. Simple happy.
January 20, 2018
Saturday, January 20, 2018
God has engrained in all of us particular passions, drives and interests, and in pursuing them with a Godward perspective, we engage in worship. Adam McHugh, Introverts in the Church Leaning in to silence and solitude today. That is all. That is enough.
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. Henry Fielding I spend the morning in the woman cave catching up on—and getting ahead of—a few things, but not tending to what I really want to tend to. I need a healthy dose
