Discovering Delight & Dwelling in Our Days
In the rhythms and routines of life, The day-to-day, The simple tasks. The have-tos and must-be-dones. Along the edges and cracks. We find ourselves creating. Creating though we do not see it forming at the time. We mold memories. Traditions arise and unfold in the threads and edges. Unplanned, really. One day we tell. We…
What’s the most beautiful part of your life right now? We gather around white plastic tables with pink carnations centered on each one. Chatter and rustles circle the room as we open brown paper boxes to reveal sandwiches, cookies and fruit. Small bags of chips and water bottles dot the tables too. The rise and…
Each time of life has its own kind of love and each time of life its own kind of happiness. ~ Leo Tolstoy . Ah, yes! Life bestows love and happiness, weaving these shining golden threads among the fibers colored “Everyday”. . I’ve lived four decades now. Long and short juxtaposing together. . In my…
Open windows and Adventure and Shrieks and Laughter. . And 7:15 a.m. with 63 degrees on the thermometer and a cool breeze. And my white robe belted around me feels snuggly good and I’m quite content to curl my hands around my coffee mug and watch from my backdoor porch. I’m mostly not-a-thrill-seeker. My adventures…
I do not claim to understand life. The living and breathing and moving of it. The heart of it and soul in it and soul in us. Mystery this. How we live in the moments and the clock tick-tocks them away faster than we can say hickory-dickory-dock and wraps them up into memory packages for…
