A quiet journaling series for your summer (or winter) months. June - August. From me to you. xo Breathe. It’s a bad day not a bad life. ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~ Write three things that are really hard right now. Write three things that are actually pretty good. Write three words to describe how [...]
A quiet journaling series for your summer (or winter) months. June - August. From me to you. xo There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. ~ Robert Brault ~ Write down 5 things (or people) you don't officially celebrate but that make you happy. Now write 1 possible [...]
A quiet journaling series for your summer (or winter) months. June - August. From me to you. xo Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed. ~ Mary Oliver ~ Let's take this first one literally. Wherever you are right now, pause. Working with your five senses, notice what's around you. [...]
During the past few summers, I’ve taken a short hiatus from this space and social media, usually in August. This year, I’ll be taking my online hiatus for three months – June, July, August. That’s a long time to be away so I’ve planned ahead, and I have something special for you... Each Friday, I’ll be [...]
When I feel stuck (on the page, in my life), I turn to gratitude. It’s the entry point to exactly where I need to be, always. So, at the end of this week, on this Friday, with a blank page in front of me and a certain amount of stuck-ness, well, here I go… for [...]
Dear Thursday, Thank you for being quiet and not needing me to leave the house (except for the visit to the doctor for my sinus infection) (but thanks for that, too, because now I have medicine to knock it out of my system). Thank you for the comfortable sofa and the book I'd picked up [...]
It’s the end of another week. Another Friday. After another Thursday after another Wednesday after another Tuesday after another…you get the idea. And you might think that I’m headed towards some reflection on the tedium of it all…the endless repetition and cycle of days and weeks, months and years. On the contrary. It’s this one-after-the-other [...]
I’ve been watching spring. It’s always the daffodils and crocuses that arrive first. Then the haze of greens and reds on the trees, the blossoms on the Bradford pears, the magnolias, the redbuds, the trees whose names I don’t know. The crape myrtle, a late bloomer, will come later. In the meantime, I’ve been waiting [...]
I was pouring through my journal filled with quotes the other day. I like to look through these quotes from time to time. They’ve all meant something to me at some point (that’s why I copied them into this dedicated journal) and I love how different quotes will pop for me on different days. Whenever [...]
Ten things. Right now. 1. my daughter's violin lesson...Vivaldi's Spring...the melody, the harmony...the joy 2. sunshine on my desk 3. the pup lying by my feet 4. feeling thirsty...need water 5. books, papers on my desk...a bit of a mess 6. clouds in the sky...the bare branches of the birches against the sky...the hint of [...]
