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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 [...]
“Notice What You Notice!”
Saturday, April 18th, 2009Poet Allan Ginsburg wrote, “Notice what you notice!” Reading that immediately makes me pause, pay attention, become more aware. Like a call to be inwardly and outwardly aware at the same time.
Professional photographer Jacquelyn Schechter of Mindful Photography interprets Ginsburg like this: “He was calling us to be mindful of our surroundings by embracing a [...]
“Brides Against Breast Cancer” Gown Sale
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 You don’t have to be a bride to want to know about these upcoming events and help spread the word! The annual “Brides Against Breast Cancer” Charity Gown Sale Nationwide Tour is beginning this month.
The Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to granting last wishes for men and women suffering from Stage [...]
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 [...]
No Worry
Friday, March 13th, 2009On this second “Friday the 13th” of the year — there are three in 2009, the most possible in one year — I’m reminded how much “worrying” is going on these days! Then that lead me to remember a greeting card received years ago that I posted above my desk in easy eye view. It said: [...]
Weddings at the Movies
Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Introduction:
Going to the movies is a treat for me! I see a film either because I’ve read the early Hollywood scoop that intrigues me, or because a favorite actor plays a role, or maybe it’s a period piece with great costumes, or sometimes, even when the movie doesn’t sound very appealing, I go as part [...]
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 [...]
Full Moon Blessing
Sunday, January 11th, 2009There have been lots of miracles and challenges in the beginning stages of living in the mountains. For instance, one challenge has been that the abundant and needed rains have washed away most of my new road! But as I told my brothers in Alabama about walking up and down the very steep road and driveway: [...]
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 [...]
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