Posted February 26, 2023 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham She was navigating what is sometimes called ‘adult orphan syndrome’ or ‘double parental bereavement’ or ‘double parental loss’ PLUS she and her husband moved from the Midwest to the Northwest soon after her mom had passed so she was terribly missing her siblings as well.
Spending a few days in Florida with her snowbird sister […]
Posted February 24, 2023 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham She and her husband were avid birders. They loved traveling with a group, often going distant places in search of specific birds. One such sought-after species was the Florida Scrub Jay.
According to Wikipedia, the Florida Scrub Jay is the only species of bird endemic to Florida and one of only 15 species endemic […]
Posted February 16, 2023 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Source: Jingles’ Promise: A Father’s Quest for Truth on the Appalachian Trail shared as a Sacred Story with permission from Norm “Jingles” Morris and Rochelle “SherpaShell” Morris. (p. 86-87) (ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK WILL BE DONATED TO HELP PEOPLE RECOVERING FROM TRAUMA AND LOSS.)
Adam was a poet. The last poem […]
Posted February 3, 2023 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham They were visiting with friends and family who all live in Michigan, while wintering in Florida. They had gotten together because their sister-in-law had come for a short visit — the first time of her being in the RV park where she and her husband had wintered together for many years.
The conversation got […]
Posted February 1, 2023 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Each winter when this snow bird flies south she takes a huge box of jigsaw puzzles. Her husband always puts the last piece in and she takes a photo.
Imagine her surprise and delight when she saw a post on Facebook showing that her god-daughter and family had just finished the same puzzle over […]
Posted January 30, 2023 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham They had both been born in the Philippines, but they met through a dating app in Los Angles, where they currently lived.
Soon they discovered a powerful coincidence: They had attended the same preschool!
The incidence might not seem like a big deal unless you know the Philippines consist of over 7,600 islands and […]
Posted January 12, 2023 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham When they arrived at their destination in Hawaii, there was an error in their booking dates (December 22 and 24).
Then as they were preparing to fly back to Canada, all the flights were cancelled….
“If you are unable to get out, just come back, you can stay here. I will leave a […]
Posted January 12, 2023 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Having been displaced in her snowbird home by Hurricane Ian, she spent almost a month with family on her way to a home-away-from her normal away-from home. She had some laptop computer challenges earlier while staying with their daughter in Tennessee, but when she got to Florida her laptop would not boot up.
She […]
Posted November 15, 2022 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
She was feeling such disappointment, hurt, and anger. Her husband had essentially told her he could not support her plans to go to Morocco. Her daughter felt the same way, “You are too old. That ship has sailed….”
Pouring out her heart about all of this the following day, her sister […]
Posted November 12, 2022 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
Her toddler great-grandson had been going through serious health issues for the past few weeks. Her Yellow Brick Road (blog) post that morning had been about meeting the chaos in the world by resting, not wrestling. Here is a brief excerpt:
Thinking outside of the box, moving through experiences with presence, […]
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