Today I'm grateful for conversations with people I love (and amazing strawberry coconut milk ice cream).
Time for Gratitude: June 17, 2016
Today I'm grateful for the sound of bamboo wind chimes, swaying in the wind. The music reminds of how wonderful it is to be alive, and always brings me back to the present moment.
Time for Reflection: The United Methodist Church
The General Conference of the United Methodist Church meets this year in Portland, Oregon. It meets every four years, and it is with great excitement for my family that it brings United Methodist leaders from around the world to Portland. I come from a long line of United Methodists ministers. My Great-Grandfather was an ordained…
Time for an Update: Tea Behind the Bushes
Sometimes things happen that I just don't understand. Sue let us know today about the passing of Abigael. A wonderful little girl we met while in Kenya. I wrote about her in September of 2014 in Tea Behind the Bushes. Abigael became sick with mumps early this week. When she was transported into intensive care, she…
Time for Lyrics: The Eye
A friend told me that he just discovered Brandi Carlile, including one of my favorite songs, "The Eye". This is exciting to me because I love Brandi Carlile and it makes my day that someone else heard her music and had it resonate with them. The reason I love music so much is that when…
Time for Gratitude: April 10, 2016
Today I'm grateful for friendship. Well, more than simple friendship- but lifelong friendship. I'm grateful for the love of a friend who accepts me in my quiet, in my crazy, in my lazy, and in my frenzy. I'm grateful for knowing that friend provides unconditional love in all moments. I'm grateful for a friend…
Time for Gratitude: March 8th, 2016
Today I'm grateful my Mom, Ann, is safely home in New York after receiving her radiation treatment in Oregon. I'm grateful she trusted my sister and me enough to trust we could get her back and forth from appointments, help her rest, and safely house her for three and a half months. I'm grateful for…
Time for Gratitude: February 26, 2016
Today I'm grateful for quiet moments with those I love. The moments where nothing happens except for comfortable silence. The moments that I don't need to fill with chatter. The content moments.
Time for Gratitude: February 24, 2016
Today I'm grateful for my sister Trish's acceptance of my good moments and bad. She lets me be in a bad mood but keeps me laughing throughout. Thank you for loving me, warts and all.
Time to Remember and Honor: Nieve-Sol Smith
I had a cat. My first cat that I knew from kitten to geriatric. Nieve passed away on February 1, 2015. I’ve wanted to write him a memorial since the day he passed away, but can’t seem to adequately convey how I felt about him and how I will remember him always. Strange how I…
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