Every year I donate a portion of my holiday season art show proceeds to a local non-profit organization that has inspired me in some way over the previous twelve months. This year, the...
Is it my imagination or is this year's fall foliage more vibrant than usual? Here in the mid-Atlantic region, this seems to be the case. Of course, it's also true that whenever we bring...
Photo credit: John Arano via Unsplash "We don't rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training."~ Greek poet Archilochus I can’t remember when I first read or...
If you've been following my blog for a while, you may remember my friend Martha Hendricks, author of the blog White Hair Grace. I first introduced her in Meet Who I Want to Be When I Grow...
A human life can have everything—beauty, status, reputation, achievement, all kinds of possessions, but if the imagination is not awakened, all these lack presence and depth.~ John...
Standing on the banks of the Metolius River in central Oregon several months ago, I never would have imagined that this little bird would be such a powerful teacher. I offered this...
It must be strange for a mountain to look at humans and the way they go around, their limbs and eyes blurred by their desire and movement. And their inability to sit still in the one...
Graphic Source: SIY Global Adaptive Resilience We don’t usually see the word ”good” associated with “stress.” Most of us have plenty of truly challenging, anxiety producing stress in our...
Sometimes the puzzle pieces of our lives fall into place with unusual clarity. In my own experience, this phenomenon is preceded by some sort of shake-up. I stepped off the grid for a...
I've been inundated this week with emails from business owners sharing their end-of-year reflections. I'll bet you have too. Today, on this final day of 2021, my heart is whispering that...
The more closely I pay attention, the more fully I recognize my own life in nature’s seasonal shifts. One of our town's holiday traditions is that Santa drives through our...
"Big day today!" This was the excited whisper that fluttered up when my alarm went off this morning. In just a few hours (at 7 pm ET on December 2nd, to be exact!), my second annual...