Category: Thoughts

  • Embracing the Giant Pause IV

    Embracing the Giant Pause IV

    While flowers are starting to bloom along with budding trees, many of us continue to be confined to shelter in place restrictions.  There is still of a sense of pause, when we consider how to proceed with work, family routines or connections in our outside world.  For some areas, getting back to the “new normal”…

  • Be of Good Cheer…Finding Clarity & Gifts

    Be of Good Cheer…Finding Clarity & Gifts

    And you thought my adventure was over when I returned home from Italy!  (Previous post – Grapes, Gratitude & Grace 11/22/19) Well, the adventure continued… Five days after returning home, I flew to California to help with my mother’s convalescence due to her leg injury.   My original plan was to…

  • Taking Life from Death

    Taking Life from Death

    Life and death have always seemed to me the ultimate mysteries, offering questions to ponder and possibilities to explore. Finding those questions so compelling, I was not surprised that I felt called to serve as a hospice volunteer.  In doing so, I have the great honor and joy of helping…

  • Finding a Better Feeling Thought

    Finding a Better Feeling Thought

    In recent blogs we have talked about the power of our thoughts and their effect on how we feel. It’s one of those good news / bad news situations. If happiness is available to us at any moment through the power of our minds, why does it sometimes seem so hard…