These ponderings originally appeared one per day via MailChimp. This weekly version keeps them in one place for people who missed the daily postings. Welcome Equinox Welcome to the lovely moment on the balance. Welcome to the fulcrum. Welcome to the vernal equinox. May you carry this blessing with you today and as the weeks …
In trending news, the Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, has decided to (continue to) defy the Supreme Court in order to uphold “God’s definition of marriage…” I am assuming that she is not referring to God’s definition of marriage in both the First and the Second Testaments that allows men to have more than one …
Think for a moment about the photos you throw away…versus the ones you put in a photo album, or reprint as your annual holiday card, or frame and hang on your wall. I’ve been going through photos this week. Our daughter needs some for a project she is doing with me. My computer wallpaper needs …
A few days ago I picked up an intriguing book at the library called Who Are You? 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself by Malcolm Godwin. Godwin taps all kinds of different cultures to look through familiar and unfamiliar lenses at our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being. My beloved husband took one look at the …
There is no canning going on in my kitchen because I don’t have enough produce to make putting up for the winter a viable option, really, which leaves me feeling a little bereft at this time of year. Childhood memories are rooted very deep in the psyche, so I grieve for the Mason jars of …
Tomorrow is my 63rd birthday. Sixty-three is (in my estimation) a particularly laden birthday because it is seven nines – and seven and nine are important sacred numbers. There are seven gifts of the Holy Spirit (there are also nine gifts of the Holy Spirit, if you use a different list), nine noble virtues from …
When I was visiting my father recently, we uncovered a box full of cards and letters I had exchanged with my mother in the two years after her cancer diagnosis and before her death. It was an unbelievable treasure trove that brought smiles and tears and a strange sense of awe in the re-reading. In …
Tomorrow is Father’s Day and across the United States, family groups will be gathering for barbecues or picnics; some restaurants are featuring special menus — not as many as for Mother’s Day, but some. Lowe’s and Home Depot have been running ads (disparaging ties and lauding power drills) during sporting events for the past two …