A Banner Week

Many of you already have received an update on the excision of a melanoma on my low back last week. (See Photoshop Fun.) The excision went well. This was a mole that turned into melanoma, it had not come from anywhere else and had not spread. The doctor said if we were talking stages, they […]

Photoshop Fun

Sometimes I notice myself deciding I am where I want to be. Sometimes where I am to be is very clear. My poetry group meets in Florida. When I am in Michigan, we FaceTime me in for the gathering. This week, afterwards they all went out for dinner. I wasn’t there, or was I…

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A Grandpa Visits

A local restaurant offers all-you-care to-eat fish dinners on Friday evening. We were meeting my sister and brother-in-love early and we arrived first, way before the place got busy.

“I love your necklace,” our waitress placing menus on our table. “What can I get you to drink?”

Slipping the charger off off my neck, […]

Love Will Find a Way

The future won’t always be fair.

But we can try.

We can care.

We can choose to connect.

It can be better if we let it.

~ Seth Godin

Many of my days are spent bearing witness to the clarity secure within our souls as our personalities fling destructive BS into our lives. One recent […]

Pass it on!

Putting over 40 years of journals into the bottom cupboard of the new library closet we had installed this winter I was suddenly overwhelmed by the sacredness of reflection. It has been too long since I wrote in my paper journal. The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of preparations, travel, arrival, clearing the […]

Fingers on Fur

Preparations are underway to head to Smyrna tomorrow. We never say or think we are leaving Pine Island after enjoying “the season” here—we are going to see the grandkids!

Recently my brother-in-law experienced the death of the woman he had cared for the past five years. He was committed to her. They married in […]

Time Means Nothing at All

Time has a way of slipping through our fingers. Looking back, we ask where it has gone. Of course, time means nothing at all.

A woman who lived with us for several years had an old cassette with a song by that title. It was so long ago I don’t honestly know who […]

Layers of Illusion

When I saw this photo and quotation from 11:11 Awakening Code on my sister’s Facebook page, I resonated to the truth and once again appreciated Emotional Freedom Technique, also known as EFT or just “tapping.”

I have been participating in the 2018 World Tapping Summit for the last ten days. Learn more at thetappingsolution.com. […]

Spring

There is a hard truth to be told: before spring becomes beautiful, it is plug ugly, nothing but mud and muck. I have walked in the early spring through fields that will suck your boots off, a world so wet and woeful it makes you yearn for the return of ice. But in that muddy […]

Cultural Peace

Time is at once a limited commodity and an illusion. We an spend time, waste time, deny time, and transcend time.

At a workshop with Zan Henigan Lombardo, the focus was on how she let chaos in her life create something beautiful. Her work of art is an impressive 30-foot watercolor painting with an […]