Hello, God As hard as it was — If You hadn’t assured me that Patty was “Vibrant, Radiant, Alive and with YOU” — how much harder it would have been. Or, actually, would be. Being a Believer, it was all…
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Overcome Evil with Good
Good Evening, God! A dear friend emailed me to say that no-weeding farming might work, but not weeding her garden would be a disaster. And, I have to say that I definitely pull weeds daring to grow in my garden…
Tagged with: One Straw Revolution
Posted in a prayer for healing, connecting, growing toward up, Growth Opportunities, Heal Us Now, healing, health, Ongoing Transformation, Rebalancing, the Growth Mindset, Transitions
Posted in a prayer for healing, connecting, growing toward up, Growth Opportunities, Heal Us Now, healing, health, Ongoing Transformation, Rebalancing, the Growth Mindset, Transitions
Time, Tides and Change
Good Evening, God, This is the view from my wonderful husband Kit’s beach — where he lived until he was eight. It is actually called the Hunakai Beach . . . right at the start of Hunakai Street. This was…
Tagged with: erosion, Hunakai Beach, rising sea level
Posted in Books, Changing, courage, Responding, responsibility, time, Transitions, Trees
Posted in Books, Changing, courage, Responding, responsibility, time, Transitions, Trees
Bags packed again . . . off to Berlin
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!…
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
A Long Earthly Journey, Completed
But best of all, Mom was a Loving Listener — not just to me, but to countless friends.
Tagged with: connections, Death, Earthly Journey, Mother, Mother/Daughter connections
Posted in appreciation, connecting, LOVE, Mothers, relationships, Transitions, web of life
Posted in appreciation, connecting, LOVE, Mothers, relationships, Transitions, web of life
The Joys and Benefits of Twilight
It seems that blue light — especially that emitted by computers, iPads and iPhones etc. — tells our bodies we should keep on staying awake and alert. Harvard’s Medical School has a good article about it.
Tagged with: Blue light, melatonin, sleep, travel, twilight
Posted in accepting my need for help, Light, rest, Transitions
Posted in accepting my need for help, Light, rest, Transitions
Vog, Tectonic Plates and Time
Mostly, this Tectonic Action happens in Geologic Time. But, when plates get stuck — not moving — and then get unstuck with an Earthquake — it enters into our Human Time — and we never forget the experience.
Tagged with: A Crack in the Edge of the World, earthquakes, Geologic Time, Human Time, tectonic plates
Posted in a matter of scale, Abundant Life, Books, time, Transitions
Posted in a matter of scale, Abundant Life, Books, time, Transitions
Aimlessness vs Floating
And by chance I am reading a book that shines an almost holy light on these thoughts of life and death. The book is God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Dr. Victoria Sweet.
Tagged with: aimlessness and sin, Dr. Victoria Sweet, floating, God's Hotel, slow healing
Posted in Books, Changing, Cherishing our Bodies, healing, health, Transitions
Posted in Books, Changing, Cherishing our Bodies, healing, health, Transitions
Opening Our Windows and Our Minds
In a series of studies in Peru Dr. Rod Escombe showed that simply opening windows cut the rate of TB infection by two-thirds. The diversity of the outside air is that beneficial.
Tagged with: diversity, Dr. Paula Olsiewski, Dr. Rod Escombe, fresh air, natural ventilation, the ecology of the built environment
Posted in Changing, health, Rethinking, Transitions
Posted in Changing, health, Rethinking, Transitions
On Being Back
I cannot stop Time. I cannot fix all the ills of the world, or of my family or of myself .
Tagged with: being human, not being superhuman, opening to pain
Posted in Failing, Sorrows of the Deep, time, Transitions
Posted in Failing, Sorrows of the Deep, time, Transitions
A Moment with God 