Category: Wonder

  • 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”…

  • Embracing the Giant Pause III

    Embracing the Giant Pause III

    Hello Wonder and Possibility Friends, Yes, in most places it’s another week of staying at home. It seems we are slowly establishing a new normal, but knowing this is only temporary helps us to hang in there.  We hope you are embracing the pause with many forms of self-care and to that end, we’re…

  • Embracing the Giant Pause II

    Embracing the Giant Pause II

    In the spirit of thriving during these trying times, last week we shared with you a variety of resources on our website and FaceBook pages to help tend to your body, mind and spirit.  We also included a dose of humor and some ideas from a fellow sojourner.  We hope…

  • Embracing the Giant Pause

    Embracing the Giant Pause

    Hello Wonder and Possibility Friends, What curious times we’re living in!  When our world is turned upside down, it’s hard to know how to make sense of it, what to think, where to focus.  Our new normal is disorienting, at times even distressing, but we believe that in the midst…

  • How Do I Love Thee?  Let Me Count the Ways…

    How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways…

    We love this question from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but we’re suggesting a twist in this month of love.  How often do we truly appreciate who we are?  How often do we practice self-love?Our invitation to you this month is to send yourself a Valentine or two appreciating what it is…

  • 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…

  • Whether to Consider the Weather…

    Whether to Consider the Weather…

    When I was a kid in Ohio, Wally Kinnan was the weatherman on the local news show.  I had an affinity toward his presentation of the weather with his felt board and the different cartoon like symbols of sun, rain and snow.  His demeanor was calm, cool and collected no…

  • What’s In Your Suitcase?

    What’s In Your Suitcase?

    I like to travel. In fact, very often if a friend hasn’t seen me for awhile, the first question is usually “Barb, where have you been lately?” While others love to go shopping for things, if I have any extra money, it will go towards transportation somewhere, more than anything…

  • A Breath of Fresh Air!

    A Breath of Fresh Air!

    January… it seems we either love it or hate it.  I happen to be in the former category, but admit that for years I was one who dreaded it.  It’s winter after all, and here in Minnesota that can be dreary. Our winters can last well into March, even April,…

  • a STEP INto TIMEless Wonder & Possibility

    a STEP INto TIMEless Wonder & Possibility

    A Step Into Timeless  Wonder & Possibility Floating down on a cloud, Mary Poppins entered my life, fifty-four years ago.  Enveloped by darkness and the big screen of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, I was mesmerized by the wonder and possibility of magic through the cinematic storytelling of the Banks…