Delight Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/delight/ Discovering Delight & Dwelling in Our Days Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:56:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/adelightfulglow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-1-of-1-4.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Delight Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/delight/ 32 32 26348127 If You Start A Book Club…. https://adelightfulglow.com/if-you-start-a-book-club/ https://adelightfulglow.com/if-you-start-a-book-club/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:56:27 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49839 If you start a book club and if you meet once a month, every month for almost three years, and if you have a book society retreat in the nearby city for a long weekend in January of 2023 and again in March of 2024, then you might find your book clerisy in February of [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/if-you-start-a-book-club/feed/ 2 49839 Books I Read in 2024 and Found To Be Delightful https://adelightfulglow.com/books-i-read-in-2024-and-found-to-be-delightful/ https://adelightfulglow.com/books-i-read-in-2024-and-found-to-be-delightful/#comments Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:41:11 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49805 January dances away on the calendar as I sit and type this. We’ve had snow and ice and snow again and cold temperatures to go with it all. I haven’t minded. Granted, I’ve been able to stay inside my warm and cozy house during most of it, thus not so much to mind. It has [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/books-i-read-in-2024-and-found-to-be-delightful/feed/ 2 49805 The Gift of Delight at Christmas https://adelightfulglow.com/the-gift-of-delight-at-christmas/ https://adelightfulglow.com/the-gift-of-delight-at-christmas/#respond Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:13:03 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49349 I’m delighted to welcome my friend, Allison Byxbe, to be here with us today ~ Allison invited me to share in a conversation about the Gift of Delight for her Inky Collective this month. I was delighted to do this! We had a fun and dare I say, delightful conversation? 🙂 Let’s jump back for [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/the-gift-of-delight-at-christmas/feed/ 0 49349 A Collection of Liturgies of the Little Things https://adelightfulglow.com/a-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/ https://adelightfulglow.com/a-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 08:26:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49211 Muted Autumn Muted autumn.It speaks of the beauty of cycles and seasons, rhythms and rest, glory and goodness.It sounds of cadence and crunch, drifting leaves and dried seed pods,honking geese and crackling hearthfires.Muted Autumn.An embrace, an exhale,A metastasis, a muse,A quietude.Muted Autumn.A welcome home. Beauty Bursts Beauty bursts.In obvious places, like flower bloomsAnd arranged bouquets,But [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/a-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/feed/ 0 49211 Formation in the Practice of Delight https://adelightfulglow.com/formation-in-the-practice-of-delight/ https://adelightfulglow.com/formation-in-the-practice-of-delight/#respond Fri, 20 Oct 2023 07:53:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49132 I go through the motions on autopilot. Press the garage door opener. Start the engine.  Shift to reverse. All rote. Repeated dozens and dozens and dozens of times. He catches my eye as I back my Yukon out the open garage door. Stretched on the porch step,  Theodore blissfully, sleepily, soaks in the sunshine. He [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/formation-in-the-practice-of-delight/feed/ 0 49132 Cradling Togetherness https://adelightfulglow.com/cradling-togetherness/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 11:18:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=48536 It beckons. Draws with magnetic pull. Urges togetherness. Lights twinkle soft and pink mixes together with gold, silver, cream, amber. We gather in the room. We bring books and knitting and hazelnut coffee laced with cream. Miss Jackie sits outside, ears perked, eyes peering in the window. We grin at her, sip coffee, gaze at [...]

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