Likely, daffodils, tulips, and crocuses crossed your mind. Or maybe you remembered the cacophony of wildflowers framing the roadway like an invitation to somewhere important. The earth awakes this time of year, but something else brightens these spring days. Welcome to April and National Poetry Month! Please don’t [...]
Sometimes, I hesitate to say the thing that longs to be said to the people I care about and even strangers. Everyone can use a few kind words, but like me, we pause, leaving the words hanging in mid-air, only a thought bubble. Mark Twain, alias Samuel Clemens, remember [...]
Is there anything we can agree on amid all the adversity dividing us? We all seem to hold tightly to what makes us feel safe, convinced that our way is the right way, the only way. But is it? Miguel Ruiz left neurosurgery to explore the spiritual side of [...]
I come from a long line of creators. Not the famous or recognized, rather, those ordinary, everyday people who see what's needed—the functional and the beautiful. My grandmother rarely sat still. She tended her vegetable and flower gardens, quilted, and crocheted doilies. My mother and all of her sisters [...]
So many ideas. So many moments to share. So much life to live. Some days, it is enough to stop and look for the good. It is the balm we need to take the next step, to keep going. So, today, I have sunshine and spring breezes calling to [...]
“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful… This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.” Agnes De Mille Deep within me has always been the desire to dance. Not any particular style — just a body [...]
I wanted the storybook version—the 1960s TV rendition of a family and a dad. I didn’t get that, but I still learned love. The shade from the boxy white station wagon shielded us from the blazing sun. With the side door half open, I gazed at the turquoise interior—a sea, [...]
Nature, if we look out the window, has much to teach us about living and dying. As the Earth rotates around the sun on its lopsided axis, spring gives way to summer, that leaps into fall, that glides into winter, and starts all over again. Plants and animals [...]
Charlels Dickens could well be talking about today in his opening to A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was [...]
The thread’s strength depends on the "seers" willingness to look, to gaze in wonder at the ordinariness filling the spaces we inhabit. Merriam-Webster defines mundane as "relating to or characteristic of the world; practical, ordinary." The repetitive, daily activities like washing dishes, mowing the lawn, or driving to [...]
