Looking back, before COVID erupted in March 2020, Doug and I may have had it! Something fast and harsh knocked us for a loop in February. I caught what I thought was a cold and shared. That wasn’t a kind thing. Doug wound up on heavy meds. Shortly after we...
I adapted a prayer for the healing of a young cancer patient —composed by an Ethiopian Medical community for one of the own. The petition they made for this child's healing seemed to be a way I can pray for so many we love whose hurts and heartaches press in as...
I am learning some limits and and accepting a few limitations as the reality of just how far my get-up-and-go got up and went. So, I am good for about 40-45 minutes of sustained movement, a day! lol — whether it’s tidying up, weeding, planting, or even walking. And...
These are times that make me wonder what I am wired for. It certainly is NOT the twenty-four hour news cycle! We just aren’t wired for this much information, my friend observed. A true truth: as the world enters its third week, more than a few of my wires feel...
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. * A plan in this first quarter of a new year was to get an exercise bike for those days when the weather argues against walking. A friend who know me well commented, when she heard my plans: it will make a great...
Finally, I finished The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, learning dimensions of WWI history that Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey left out. Given, what J.M. Barrie reported about what led up to the Great Influenza, and all that...
Blame it on the sunshine — or the coffee — or the rumor in our area that the Omicron Virus may be peaking. I feel Hopeful. Sort of. That hope feels like a shaft of sunshine, after weeks of gray— as friends and family endured bouts of illness over Christmas. The...
I am starting 2022 with a clean dining table. Note: in a few hours this will be a mess again. The dining room table is both our work spaces. But for now, it is tidy, and I read a little “devotion” about gratitude even — especially when life presses in. Peering down...
Thanks to a surge of a variant of the virus that “simplified” Christmas last year, Christmas 2021 just got a whole lot simpler! Well, I’ve been grousing for years that Christmas, etc was too much hype.* Couldn’t we just simplify our festivities, and focus on the...
A pianist friend confided that what she sees in musical composition changes over time—when she looks at sheet music, especially ones she has loved and played over the years. What she saw in the score at age 18 changed when she was 35 in the exact same sheet music....
The resurgence of COVID-19 through the Delta variant daily reinforces old stumbling blocks —specifically information overload. And confusion. ( Delta is more contagious than Expected ) How on earth are we back where we were, with lots of sick people, overworked...
This is a big year for Boomers: if we made it this far, we are celebrating a birthday we thought only grandparents had celebrated. Yet, here we are — adapting the words of Anne Sexton, In a dream you are never [seventy-five]. ~ "Old," 1962 Throughout much of the...
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