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Dec. 3 Advent Thoughts : Give Lavish
The whole day is your gift: hold it and read a leaf at a time, never hurried, never waiting. Step, step, slide, then turn, dance on the calendar, reach out a hand, give lavish as anyone ever gave- all. – from the poem "Some Days of Its Gift" by William Stafford...
Epiphany
Chip is back at work, and I am baking a birthday cake for two granddaughters who are celebrating January birthdays tomorrow. One turns three and one will be thirteen. (Impossible? Apparently not.) Mateo's brother has the pukes and his mother isn't feeling great either...
On the 12th Day of Christmas
I listened to Christmas carols, the traditional kind from an English church choir, as I pedaled to nowhere on the stationary bike at 6 am. Later, I took a walk at sunrise (well, around ten? it felt like sunrise anyway), before the kids from Australia came over from...
On the Ninth Day of Christmas..
We burned the trees. I know, we should save them until Epiphany (Jan. 6) but they had their own plans and basically shed so many needles by the time the lights were unwound that I could shovel mine off the floor. There is something elemental about a bonfire in...
A New Year’s Thought
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nearest to My Heart
John O'Donohue writes, "what is nearest to the heart is often farthest from the word." That's why I didn't write yesterday ( but, still, 30 days out of 31 in December is a good run.) My heart was topped off and I couldn't think straight. I still can't. I mean, I know...
A Last Day of Family Christmas Thought.
"In a culture of gratitude, everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again. This time you give, and the next time you recieve." -- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass.