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Advent Thoughts Dec. 21, Winter Solstice.
It is the darkest day of the year, and in church we light the Advent candle for Love. I am feeling so much love. Just not the kind I want to, right now. As my granddaughter says, I have a lot of feelings. They say you can balance an egg upright on the equinox. If I...
Dec 23 Christmas Card
I love the snow. I love a houseful for dinner at Christmas and really I love when the house is all quiet in the morning and it's just me, and the tree lights, and a cup of coffee with cream. Today I had two. I may need three. There is a winter storm warning all day...
Dec 22 The Quiet Miracles
"Take time to seek the quiet miracles that seek no attention."- John O'Donohue The little pink boots in the mud room slayed me yesterday. It's probably all the sugar, and coffee, and crowds. I did not imagine, some 40 something years ago, when I got married that...
Dec. 21 Happy Solstice
From Jeanette Winterson: "So light a candle to the dead. And light a candle to miracles, however unlikely, and pray that you recognize yours. And light a candle to the living; the world of friendship and family that means so much. And light a candle to the future;...
Dec 20 It’s Beginning to Feel a Lot Like…
“There are always those perfect times with the people we love, those moments of joy and equality that sustain us later on...These moments are the foundation upon which we build the house that will shelter us into our final years, so that when love calls out, "How far...
Dec 19 Good Morning Sunshine!
“Every day, God brings up the sun so we feel warmth, circulates the air so we can breathe, brings rain so that we have water to drink and in return asks us essentially for just two things: First, a little gratitude, and second to spread the love.”—Clark Warner, Marsh...
Dec 18, Again. (Love and Joy.It’s Complicated)
“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen Yesterday was a hard day. And I have been having some tech issues, so I wrote this-- as part of my walking every day...