They dance like ballerinas, around a toy-filled floor, scattered with memories & ideas taking them to a land where fairy princesses live. Chopin and Beethoven play in the background, like a carefully orchestrated backdrop to their wildly imaginative dreams. I see them bow and spin, laugh and giggle, as if the whole world and all there […]
I’ll never forget it, waking up before the sun rose, climbing in my dad’s vehicle, boat on top, headed for lake waters. My timid nature and blonde locks bounced, yet inside I felt brave, being able to bait a line with a wiggly worm, all by myself, thanks to lessons from my older brother. Inside I […]
It likely will take you less than three minutes to run across a post, article, or Facebook thread declaring, “Think positive” or “Sending ‘good thoughts’ your way”, as if positive thinking alone is magic, this idea that we can gather our “plus energy” and use it for our benefit or other people’s gain. Hollywood has substituted it, […]
The day breaks with a stillness that grips every shaking heart. It sinks deep inside, capturing what was rivaled and turning, spinning and running. Songs of yesterday still linger in the shadows of the mind, while the waves have made way for a dormant, chrystal pond, where rays of light shine and welcome us home. And […]
It was almost five years exactly to the day since I saw you, sat with you, talked with you the very first time. Five years, since I drove through our local Starbucks and handed you a Venti….Yes, probably just to make myself feel better because you were freezing, and I was in a new, well heated […]
We all know Joseph, the earthly father, who despite him not biologically related to Jesus, God appointed him to adopt the long awaited Messiah. In a nativity or the Christmas story, Joseph is often in the shadow of Jesus and Mary. Yet, Joseph’s role in the pre-written story of Jesus is crucial to the health of […]