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Friday, June 26th, 2009With the warmer days here in the mountains for the last month, I’ve enjoyed moving my office to my front porch — with my laptop perched on a little make-shift desk. Here I write and watch the various birds with the glorious mountain-scape all around me.
To my delight, one of my early visitors was a [...]
“Holy Blessings” - a book excerpt
Monday, June 22nd, 2009I thought you would enjoy this excerpt from my upcoming book, “The Bride’s Ritual Guide: Look Inside to Find Yourself.” Not just for brides, but for all women (and men!) who love matters of the heart!
HOLY BLESSINGS
“Smile, breathe, go slowly.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Some brides wear a sapphire ring or pin as their wedding day “something blue.” [...]
Give a Child a Future
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009I’m just back from attending the Book Expo America in New York City — the granddaddy book event of them all! — and one thing that was very apparent is that people love books! Here’s the event where publishers present their new and upcoming book titles and show off their authors. There were books of all kinds: books [...]
Love Without Diamonds?
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009Join the Discussion on “Conflict Diamonds” and Advantages of Buying Vintage Wedding & Engagement Rings!
In the current issue of Weddings of Grace Online Magazine, I continue the discussion of “to diamond or not to diamond?” — “new rings vs antique?” — “no engagement ring/just wedding band?” (See details on the Cornelia Recommends page.)
Would love your [...]
Here’s Something to Share
Thursday, April 30th, 2009The May-June issue of Weddings of Grace is now online! You don’t have to be a bride to enjoy the heart-opening story on the Rituals of the Heart page, Through the Simplicity Comes the Joy. Although not a traditional Quaker wedding, the featured couple wrapped themselves in the reverence and simplicity of the Friends Meeting House [...]
A Picture of Abundance: Gummie & Violets
Monday, March 23rd, 2009As I headed out for a mountain hike the other day, taking a short cut through a golf course to a favorite rhododendron trail, a grassy slope covered with violets stopped me in my tracks. Oh, wow, it’s really spring! And with that obvious reminder, there also came — in one fell swoop — such [...]
All About the Love Again (Long Version Reprinted from Newsletter)
Friday, February 6th, 2009The poet asked “what if the mightiest word is love?”. The song writer sang “a world that’s all about the love again.” And the people danced and smiled and opened their hearts.
This was my experience watching the festivities surrounding President Obama’s inauguration last week. I don’t put a lot of attention on politics — or [...]
All About the Love Again
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
The poet asked, “what if the mightiest word is love?”. The song writer sang, “all about the love again.”
And that’s what it felt like—this day marking a new shift in consciousness—as I watched the activities this week surrounding President Obama’s inauguration throughout the day and evening. I felt it, I saw it on the faces [...]
Blue Bird Visitors
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008I’ve just had the most wonderful Christmas Eve visitors to my little mountain top! A flock of Eastern Blue Birds just lit outside my office loft windows (looking west into a “blue” silhouetted mountain ridge). This is only the third batch of “songbirds” that have called on me in the month or so of being [...]
Being Flexible: Children at Weddings
Sunday, November 9th, 2008Little boys seemed to be everywhere at my nephew Matthew and Lindsay’s outdoor October wedding. Her two nephews — Eamon, six, and Brendan, four — and Matthew’s one and a half year-old nephew, Harrison, especially enjoyed the lawn’s open space to run and play.
Toddler Harrison needed a bit more “looking after,” although I understand that [...]