Good Day, God! Pope Francis said it so well. We are all Artisans of the Common Good. I love that phrase! It embraces us ALL. All of us “ordinary folk” are welcomed into the Creative Pool. Given the Title of…
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Being Fruitful and Blessing
Good Day, God! This morning, my wonderful husband Kit accompanied my on my walk up to the top of Hahaione Street. Being together is something I am appreciating more and more. I don’t have to be entertained. I don’t have…
Tagged with: A Father's Blessing, cursing, failing to bless, limiting
Posted in Blessing, connecting, family, LOVE, Our Extended Family - all creatures great and small
Posted in Blessing, connecting, family, LOVE, Our Extended Family - all creatures great and small
Perspective . . . perspectives
Good Morning, God! Here’s a photo of me in Tucson. I was walking with my wonderful daughter, Sandy. I’d stopped to gaze UP at a giant saguaro cactus. I think it is the biggest, tallest, most impressive saguaro I have ever seen.…
Tagged with: saguaro cactus, Tucson
Posted in connecting, Our Extended Family - all creatures great and small, Perspective, perspectives, reassembling, recovery time, time, Wanting a protected time
Posted in connecting, Our Extended Family - all creatures great and small, Perspective, perspectives, reassembling, recovery time, time, Wanting a protected time
Releasing Constrictions
Good Evening, God Is there anything more constricted than a grieving heart before it breaks open? I have been focused on the term “Constricted” for the last few weeks. It started with an awareness that I didn’t want anything “tight”…
Tagged with: Borobudur temple, fear of failing, fear of not doing stuff well enough
Posted in Centering Prayer, compassion to care for myself, confession, connecting, Constrictions, courage to see myself, Energy, fears, Grief, inner paths of the heart, Our Extended Family - all creatures great and small
Posted in Centering Prayer, compassion to care for myself, confession, connecting, Constrictions, courage to see myself, Energy, fears, Grief, inner paths of the heart, Our Extended Family - all creatures great and small
My Dear Old Inner Elephant
Good Evening, God! After I do my Centering Prayer . . . I do a sort of poem. And I want to share the one I did earlier this week. Why? Maybe because I need to remember to ask my Inner Elephant…
Mommies and Babies — and Saying Goodbye
I have been taken by surprise at the grief flowing through me. It’s very primal, God. I guess grief always is. But because my husband Kit and I had been “assisting” mom daily the last few years, playing games and talking — part of me sees her as my baby. So it’s a sort of double whammy.
Tagged with: family, grief, Hospice, Mother, Mother daughter bond
Posted in connecting, Grief, LOVE, Our Extended Family - all creatures great and small, Perspective
Posted in connecting, Grief, LOVE, Our Extended Family - all creatures great and small, Perspective
Good People and Children Who Need Hugs, and MORE
Good Morning, God! Imagine my surprise passing by a normally empty couch at Arcadia and seeing 61 Hug Me dolls. I stopped and asked the lovely woman standing by them, WHAT WERE THEY? She said they were going to the…
Hedgehogs and Mother Teresa
Good Morning, God I’ve never seen a real hedgehog and I think this is the first photo of a hedgehog that I’ve seen. One look at his adorable little face and I was more than ready to donate to a…
Waking up in the Web of Life
Ah, God, how amazing is this one small planet we call home! My Discover magazine came yesterday and there in the front was a photo of a Large Blue Butterfly (yes, that is its name) and a short story about…
A world alive with Light
Yes, we live on a Small Blue Dot as I guess Carl Sagon called it. And looking at it from space it looks fragile and precious and oh so small. Here we are TOGETHER! Now, how smart do we have to be to realize we had best look for what unites us and start doing it NOW.
