Good Morning, God! Hmmm. Not long ago one of my blogs had a graph showing the top 1% of Americans having wealth going UP UP UP! The next 2% were mostly holding their own. But the other 97% were getting…
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An American Spring?
Tagged with: a moment with God, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street spreads, on being a community
Posted in a hand up, adjusting, Anger, Compassion, courage
Posted in a hand up, adjusting, Anger, Compassion, courage
Character — Doing the Right Thing
Good Morning, God! I want to get this blog out early to share this great story. Sara Tucholsky was a senior playing softball for Western Oregon. She’s only 5’2″ and she’d never hit a home run. But she did hit…
A Gift of Time — A Time of Reflection
Good Morning, God! Yesterday, visiting Arcadia, I felt led to take a photo of the fish in the fish tank. It was something I’d never done in all the years I worked there. I was waiting for a dear friend…
Off to the Farmers’ Market and Whatevers
Good Morning, God! I’m up early as Kit needed the alarm to wake up. YAWN! He is off to his TNT training run. On his way down the stairs he said, “Tomorrow you’ll be running, too!” He said it so…
Tagged with: changing, letting Time Decompress and Fluff up, offering my squiggly self as a living sacrifice, priorities, Putting down excess Responsibility, trusting God
Posted in a hand up, A Spiritual Spring Cleaning, an invitation to abundant life, becoming the change I wish to see, Changing, Farmers' Markets, humility
Posted in a hand up, A Spiritual Spring Cleaning, an invitation to abundant life, becoming the change I wish to see, Changing, Farmers' Markets, humility
A Lovely Day — but Missing Any Limits
Good Morning, God! Yesterday was a lovely day . . . a very social day with breakfast, lunch and dinner out with friends.It was a mostly “going slow” day. Kit meanwhile was serving dinner to the homeless with the CUC…
Car Keys, Memory and Two Intersecting Articles
Good Morning, God! And it IS a GOOD morning! Partly because we are Beginning To Head HOME! And it’s partly because of two articles in this month’s Discover magazine. I love it, God, when ideas come from two directions! The…
Out of the Monastic Corridors and back into MY life
Good Morning, God! I am MOSTLY home. But, part of me still yearns for the simplicity of life in the Retreat Center. Three hours of sitting in Centering Prayer a day. Sitting intentionally in Your Presence — saying YES to…
Traveling Toward A “Time of Listening”
Good Morning, God! I love this pastel of a lone gondolier on the Grand Canal. Actually, I love Venice. The Sea may be rising — but they are adapting. Hmm. It seems to me that we do the same with…
Beauty, Busy and a New View of Time
Good Morning, God! A Smaller Lighter Life? I think that’s what I want, God. Ah, but old habits and old mindsets are VERY persistent. It takes Work and Planning to be able to Rest. Hmm. Maybe, it just takes Stopping…
Mom gets a Perm and a Smile
Good Morning, God! Yesterday was a Good Hair Day for Mom. After two set backs with an outer ear infection she was well enough to go off to the Cinderella Beauty Salon right there in the Hawaii Kai retirement residence.…
A Moment with God 