Musings Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/musings/ Discovering Delight & Dwelling in Our Days Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:08:38 +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 Musings Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/musings/ 32 32 26348127 Loneliness Longing Love https://adelightfulglow.com/loneliness-longing-love/ https://adelightfulglow.com/loneliness-longing-love/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:06:05 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=50030 If I’m honest, I’ve spent large chunks of my life feeling lonely.The odd part? I’ve never been without people who loved me. People I relied on. People who mattered to me and who made me feel that I mattered too.Nevertheless, also loneliness and longing. We watched Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, last Friday, and at [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/loneliness-longing-love/feed/ 0 50030 Wherein We Find My Favorite Books Read in 2025 https://adelightfulglow.com/wherein-we-find-my-favorite-books-read-in-2025/ https://adelightfulglow.com/wherein-we-find-my-favorite-books-read-in-2025/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:48:35 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49909 One of my delights in December is reading booklists compiled by readers of their favorite books from this year of reading. I’ve read Emily P. Freeman’s and Lore Wilbert’s and Anne Bogel’s and other lists from bookstore newsletters, Insta accounts, and Substack. It’s fun to see the same titles popping up on numerous lists. Particularly [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/wherein-we-find-my-favorite-books-read-in-2025/feed/ 1 49909 A Roll of the Dice or a Flip of the Spinner https://adelightfulglow.com/a-roll-of-the-dice-or-a-flip-of-the-spinner/ https://adelightfulglow.com/a-roll-of-the-dice-or-a-flip-of-the-spinner/#respond Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:18:32 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49884 Life feels an awfulot like a game of Monopoly And I am often waiting for someone to tell me it is my turn  And I will roll snake eyes and creepy-crawl Towards Go Hoping to pass it this time  Collect two hundred  But roll it three times consecutively  And I will go directly  TO JAIL [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/a-roll-of-the-dice-or-a-flip-of-the-spinner/feed/ 0 49884 Thoughts on Humility https://adelightfulglow.com/thoughts-on-humility/ https://adelightfulglow.com/thoughts-on-humility/#respond Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:43:05 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49880 Humility is a habit.  I hear Malcolm Gladwell say this in a podcast interview. The statement sticks, and I keep musing on it. Turning it this way and that. Observing it. Considering it.I’ve long considered humility the virtue most difficult to attain.This simplifies it. Sums it up. Renders it achievable. Do I believe this to [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/thoughts-on-humility/feed/ 0 49880 All the Reasons I Love Grocery Pickup https://adelightfulglow.com/all-the-reasons-i-love-grocery-pickup/ https://adelightfulglow.com/all-the-reasons-i-love-grocery-pickup/#respond Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:46:15 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49867 All the Reasons I Love Grocery Pickup Let me count the ways…. Change can recalibrate, reorient, refresh. Change can redeem time.

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/all-the-reasons-i-love-grocery-pickup/feed/ 0 49867 On June… https://adelightfulglow.com/on-june/ https://adelightfulglow.com/on-june/#respond Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:34:07 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49862 I need a reset, a boost, a motivation for my writing life.Perhaps, you??I sit at my desk on Saturday, the last day of May as we count time, a few hours remain. I scratch out a few notes, scrawl a list. And then another.My brain is intrigued. I jot a question. Make a short list [...]

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