Category Archives: Recommended Reading

The Naming

If ever there is a book that is worth rereading, it is Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I’m almost finished my third time through. Every read or listen yields new insights. Yesterday I listened to a chapter called Witness to the Rain, about how raindrops come in different sizes depending on whether they dripContinue reading “The Naming”

Pollyanna and Suffering

I have always been an optimist. Once upon a time, when Pollyanna was a popular children’s story, I took on that persona, the cheerful optimist, the “glad girl”. The book was published in 1913; Disney made a movie in 1960. I was very small at the time, and never saw the movie, but the storyContinue reading “Pollyanna and Suffering”

Reset

This morning I came across a clipping and a quote that struck me as so true: “Keep quiet, pray, and wait for God to work.” (Rose McCormick Brandon) Yesterday, someone told me to read Psalm 91, especially vs. 7, which says, “You will not be harmed, though thousands fall all around you” (CEV). It isContinue reading “Reset”

What Matters Most

Years ago, a very good friend of mine, Linda Dashwood, told me that on my birthday I should watch for a message from the Universe. It could come from anywhere, a song, a text, a page in a book. One year, my message showed up in something I misread. It was on a sign inContinue reading “What Matters Most”