. . . and to you this day . . .

The house is quiet when I come down and for this, this morning I am grateful I stretch out my arms to greet the day, and feel this space and the quiet I smile and  I breathe pour my coffee…
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“I want, in fact – to borrow from the language of the saints -to live ‘in grace’ as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an…
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“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”  ~ Emily Dickinson For a moment today I lamented the fact that my husband had to rush off to work yet again, and then..I suddenly thought about how…
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This morning I decide today is mine, my day to have, any way I wish it’s been busy,  we’ve been busy but this morning, my husband rises only a little before me so that he can start the coffee and…
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Have you ever met someone and thought, I wish we’d know each other when we were young in school or maybe we did but not well how did I not know you before this ever wondered if things would be…
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Stupid is just one of those words I don’t use I don’t use hate, I don’t use fat I don’t say shut up ever I don’t say them,  I don’t like to hear them I choose not to wear them…
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To offer a small gift, to make you smile to warm your heart gives the same to me simple magnificence ♥

August has a feel I have written about this before, I can feel the summer fleeting the end of carefree days, the return to school, deadlines and routine and even though my days no longer really change, and I have…
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Is there ever a time when news of a sudden death of a friend does not completely knock you sideways while I look at the words before me I read and re-read them five times none of it makes sense…
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I started my week, in a rather bad mood.  I know this,  I can feel the weight of it. And so I try to ease myself through, as gently and kindly as I can. I can feel when I am…
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