Last week, I wrote about getting quiet. In one sense I was talking about the quiet that means the absence of sound (specifically, music and podcasts). But at the end, if you noticed, I mentioned this: In our world, which is hyper-everything, it’s okay to skip the latest podcast recording (even the one that a [...]
there was a cabin in the woods and a path leading from that cabin to the river. we slept in the cabin and ate outside. sometimes we ate inside where the light was dim and, even with 7 individuals, there was always a certain hush. down at the river, there was fishing and rock [...]
falling from the sky each unique then coming to rest together a blanket of white calling for a hush upon this corner of the world my corner and i sit in this corner with this blanket of hush and i say not a word sending a little love your way, m
there's a lot of bustle these days everywhere i turn...the holiday season is upon us. and i am way behind on gift preparations but somehow i feel peaceful about it all. the shorter days suit me, i think. there are more twinkle lights, more candle lights, more softness. i feel a definite turning inward and [...]
i woke early, moved and breathed my way through yoga, made a cup of herbal tea. my husband had already left for work, and the kids were {miraculously} still asleep. i sat with the quiet, feeling its gentle presence move in me, around me, through me. i watched the light, easing its way through windows, [...]
a bit of snow {and ice} covered our ground over the weekend. not much, but enough to afford us a glimpse of white outside the windows...enough to create a surface for sledding in the backyard...enough to encourage enchantment. i'm quite taken with the thin layer of ice on our trees' branches. i know the temperatures are rising...and the ice [...]
