Linda Hoye's Blog, page 86
January 17, 2019
Thursday, January 17, 2019 – Tapestry
It’s cliche, but at some point it becomes reality, and doctors start looking like they’re teenagers. We’re in a specialist’s office and he has just discussed a course of treatment. He picks up a little voice recorder and dictates notes that will be transcribed into my husband’s chart later (I know this because he indicates,
January 16, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 – Time is Short
It is midweek and I have not yet made it to my writing desk. I have, instead, leaned in to a sanctuary of another kind—a gift brought by an unlikely giver. I see that world keeps moving, even when I step out for a time. Things still get done, and disaster doesn’t befall us. I
January 15, 2019
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 – Gift
I spend the entire morning sitting upright in bed, surrounded by friends in the form of words, doing my best to hold my head still. I sip ice water and swallow Gravol as the essential oil diffuser on my bedside table hums a healing, and fragrant, tune. I pray, mumbling words aloud, because to form them
January 14, 2019
Monday, January 14, 2019 – Round and Round
It’s 9:30 in the morning—about five hours past the time when I like to be here. I’m still in bed, but I should be on the way to get my hair done. I’ve made a couple of phone calls and sent a couple of texts to cancel and reschedule a few things. I’m sitting very
January 12, 2019
Saturday, January 12, 2019 – Chugging Away
January is different this year. There is very little snow, above average temperatures, and confused crocus and daffodil bulbs poke their heads up in the flower garden. Last year at this time we were in a deep freeze, and the snow kept falling. Now, it feels like we’ve barely had winter at all. We spend
January 11, 2019
Friday, January 11, 2019 – Five Minute Friday – Better
I’m joining in with a group of writers for Five Minute Friday where we’re given a prompt (this week it’s BETTER) and write for five minutes about it. I’m pursuing a deeper relationship, and every choice I make takes me closer to, or farther away, from the One who holds my heart. I am blessed, at
January 9, 2019
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 – Declaration
I’m sitting upright in bed sipping coffee, and looking out the picture window adjacent our bed. There’s a dusting of snow on the hills across the valley, like sifted icing sugar. Gerry and I talked recently, about how blessed we are to look out at the majesty of creation first thing every morning. Today, having
January 8, 2019
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 – Annual Planning
I spend some time, in the first week of a brand new, shiny year, scribbling down intentions—a Rule (or Rhythm) of Life, if you will. It’s not complicated, just a line or two about my most important work, and a handful of bullet points to serve as a rough map for the journey. A single hand-written
January 7, 2019
Monday, January 7, 2019 – Virtuoso
Sometimes, I read words that have been crafted together by a master to form a poem or a paragraph, and I am overcome with hireath, and a sense of something deeper than I can explain (recently, the poetry of John Blase is doing that). When gifted musicians perform, they become as one with the notes
January 6, 2019
Sunday, January 6, 2019 – Epiphany
This string of quiet days that have fallen gently, like precious pearls dropping silently on to clouds of fluffy cotton, is drawing to an end. We will spend a (not so quiet) morning at church singing, praying, listening, and worshipping. Today is the day of Epiphany, a celebration of the revelation to the Magi—gentiles—of the
