Good Afternoon, God! I was going through old photos to find some of my late Mom. We will have a display of them at a family celebration of my mom’s life in October. My mother was beautiful At Every Age!…
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Bags packed again . . . off to Berlin
Tagged with: Berlin Marathon, Germany, needing one another, World War II
Posted in connecting, Families, Perspective, Transitions, web of life
Posted in connecting, Families, Perspective, Transitions, web of life
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
Major Changes to Our Food Supply
So, even though I understand we don’t exactly have proof about the weed killers and the bee killers, it does strike me that we humans have embarked on MAJOR changes to our Food Supply with more Hubris than Caution.
Tagged with: autism, complexity, glyphosate, hubris, our food supply, weed-killers
Posted in connecting, humility, Perspective, web of life, Worries
Posted in connecting, humility, Perspective, web of life, Worries
Walking in Sabino Canyon . . . and in Science
Now I am working hard to process the idea of Germs as Friends and Allies. It seems we need to cultivate our germ friends and support them as best we can. They may be our best defense against enemy germs.
Tagged with: Friends, germ phobia, health, saguaros, saliva
Posted in adjusting, friends, health, Mothers and Fathers, Perspective
Posted in adjusting, friends, health, Mothers and Fathers, Perspective
Traveling Time and Space
Actually, speaking of soap, one sign in the Village said that soap was just coming into use in the 1830s. Before that water and a good scrub was what they used. Yikes! No soap, no deodorant, no electricity . . . no iPhones!
Tagged with: home, Old Sturbridge Village, Time Travel, traveling
Posted in God's Time, gratitude, Perspective, time
Posted in God's Time, gratitude, Perspective, time
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
A Tsunami Watch . . . While Kit Sleeps
I really get into these things. I have an Active Imagination. But, I don’t need an imagination — all I need to do is remember the videos I saw of the Japan earthquake. So horrific, God! So horrific.
Tagged with: adrenalin surges, evacuation, tsunami watch
Posted in Perspective, Responding, Risk, thankfulness
Posted in Perspective, Responding, Risk, thankfulness
A Dose of Perspective
Well, yes, God, I do sometimes suffer from Certainty. It makes it hard to remember the command “Bless, Bless and Do Not Curse!”
Tagged with: being sure of being RIGHT, Certainty, letting go of outcomes, Respecting others
Posted in choices, Perspective, responsibility, Trusting God
Posted in choices, Perspective, responsibility, Trusting God
A Moment with God 