So, surrounded by marathoners, I trudged back into downtown Boston. Shocked. Numb. Sorrowing. But, oh, so thankful after only an hour or two to be together with Kit!
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A Heartbreaking Event at the Boston Marathon
Tagged with: Bomb attacks, Boston Marathon, Numbness, Terrorist attack, Trauma
Posted in gratitude, Prayer, thankfulness
Posted in gratitude, Prayer, thankfulness
Time: Soap Bubbles and Super Volcanos
Volcanos create mountains. Super Volcanos obliterate mountains. And the one under Yellowstone has been moving up and down a bit recently. Let’s see, it has been 630,000 years since it last exploded.
Keeping My Focus on Gratitude
how easy it is to fall into wishing — wishing for things we don’t have — or wishing for what we do have to be just a wee bit better. Oh my! That kind of wishing slips in and takes over . . . leaving me discontented and disagreeable. Yikes!
Tagged with: Flash Wishes, perfection, slipping into discontent
Posted in gratitude, Help me to see, Perspective
Posted in gratitude, Help me to see, Perspective
The UPSIDE of Being Sick
Good Day, God! Oh JOY! At the moment I am upright and well enough to want to do a blog. This is my seventh day of being sick. As my Spiritual Director observed — it’s humbling! And, perhaps that is…
Tagged with: help, humility, illness, Spiritual Direction, surrender
Posted in connecting, gratitude, healing, humility
Posted in connecting, gratitude, healing, humility
Real Time Visits
The thing about longer visits is that the Visitor slowly gets absorbed into the reality of the Visited. And this Alternate Reality differs in Pace as well as in Place.
Tagged with: a matter of pace, being pushy, family visits, the importance of pace
Posted in Families, family visits, gratitude, LOVE
Posted in Families, family visits, gratitude, LOVE
A Marvelous Birthday!
the only way I could “improve” life on my birthday was to include a 90-minute massage.
Tagged with: Dusk and Between Worlds, gratitude, James Funkhouser composer, Mango Days, song cycles
Posted in appreciation, daughters, Families, gratitude, LOVE
Posted in appreciation, daughters, Families, gratitude, LOVE
It’s So Quiet here at home
I am beginning to suspect that being open to the experiencing of all these assorted and unsorted feelings is part of maturing.
Tagged with: a very small temporary loss, family visits, fathers and daughters
Posted in Families, family visits, Feeling our feelings, gratitude, Perspective, The music
Posted in Families, family visits, Feeling our feelings, gratitude, Perspective, The music
Looking back on a Good Day
One excellent result that comes out of being sick is that one realizes (eventually . . .) that many of our “virtues” have more to do with the level of our energy than our character.
Families and Trees — And Being Together
Good Morning, God! How very blessed I am with family — our immediate family and our extended family. This photo of trees reminded me of how we are all separate trees but as we grow our branches intertwine. They intertwine…
Tagged with: families, families of friends, growing up together
Posted in Families, Focus on what unites us, friends, gratitude, growing toward up
Posted in Families, Focus on what unites us, friends, gratitude, growing toward up
Aloha Ke Akua — God is Love
Good Morning, God! Stained glass makes me think of You, God. Maybe it’s all the stained glass window in the Episcopal churches of my childhood? Or maybe it is just that LIGHT puts me in mind of You? So, what…
Tagged with: Aloha Ke Akua by David Behlke, stained glass, the layers of life
Posted in Creating, Diversity, friends, gratitude
Posted in Creating, Diversity, friends, gratitude
A Moment with God 