This morning I’ve been tidying up scattered papers, gluing poems into my scrapbook, and rereading precious entries. One poem I added today is “Everything is Waiting for You”, by David Whyte. You can listen to him read it aloud, here. Imagine my delight to then go to refill my coffee cup, and find a loveContinue reading “My Coffee Cup Loves Me”
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Watch This More than Once
“The hallmark of the coming decades will be grief.” (Francis Weller) I’ve had an unsettled feeling lately, even though things in my life are going well. It’s like an absence, a loneliness for something that I didn’t know was gone. Lately I’m missing the hummingbirds, but their leaving is a scheduled departure, and my heartContinue reading “Watch This More than Once”
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”
