I’ve had a hard time finding words lately, or finding time for words perhaps. My husband says that what I need is some good old “normal,” but I look at him wryly wondering what exactly normal might be. Anyway, there are days, you know, when the...
“…I can’t tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life…The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren’t small, but you’re living them in a small way. I’m speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your...
I grew in those seasons like corn in the night . . . Henry David Thoreau “At two, they’ve grown to half of their full height,” they doctor tells us as our twin boys wriggle and squiggle through their annual appointment. “It took them two years to grow this much...
(This post originally appeared here last Halloween. It’s one of my favorites, so I thought I’d run it again this year. Enjoy!) It’s rainy and cold and we’re all keyed up and worn out from being trapped indoors for two days by Hurricane...
The only condition necessary for this state of self-surrender is the present moment in which the soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. – Jean Pierre de Caussade in The...
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