Wisdom in Four Words or Less
I follow someone on social media who asked people to offer their best advice in four words or less. I was amazed that she had over 2000 responses.
Hope
Our Youngest Turns 21 ( Poem by Polly Castor)
We’re so glad
you came to be with us!
Here’s to another
great trip
around the sun!
We love you!
I Knit My First Pair of Mittens
I recommend it. Go out and join in with folks you don’t know to do something you don’t know how to do. It is a catalyst for the spirit.
Photos of our Re-blooming Orchid
My husband, with help of the divine, makes these amazing flowers re-bloom from dead looking sticks, and I take pictures of them in the changing light.
Grace Notes #10
I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good. I’ve even taken photographs of some of them –mostly with my iPhone–as shown in this post.
Trade Expectation for Appreciation
It’s like I always tell people, most of your suffering comes from expectation. Right?
Excerpts from Martin Luther King’s American Dream Speech
For the hour is late. And the clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now before it is too late.
EGO Means Edging God Out
Here is the important point: what the ego says is fake news! It is never true– simply an erroneous broadcast.
The Work of Christmas Begins (Howard Thurman Quote)
“When the song of the angels is stilled,
when the star in the sky is gone,
when the kings and princes are home…
Delivered from a Drift (poem by Emily Polis Gibson)
Saved by a storm and dug out from a drift:
I celebrate each time I hear your voice singing,
knowing you are a thread born to knit and mend hearts.
Thoughts about Truth (Deep Think #2)
2+2=4 is an idea of God and so are you. Consider 2+2=4 and then consider what that means for yourself.
Whole180 plus 10,000ish Steps
This year I’ve picked a very tall, specific order for myself. Have you heard of the Whole30? I am resolved that I am going to do it for 180 days starting today.
My Art Year in Review 2017
Here is the first of a series of yearly retrospectives of my artwork and shows. This summarizes my art in 2017.
Merry Christmas!
I’m sending you all holiday hugs and the warmest wishes for a meaningful, joyful, love-filled day.
As Often as Wisdom Furnishes Enlightenment
We cannot hope to work out of this human sense of existence without making mistakes. We may make many, but will profit by them all.
We Have Just One Moral Duty
“Ultimately we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves more and more…
Five Years After the Sandy Hook School Shooting
But now after five years, guns are fired in schools on a weekly basis, barely even making the news. Far from shocking us into preventative action, it seems that the tragedy in Newtown paved the way for other atrocities.