the blanket song

This week, I had the pleasure of listening to a recently posted concert of Canadian singer-song writer, Karla Anderson, which you can find on the CBC Concerts-on-Demand website by clicking here. While listening to the beautiful song, “What else can I do?” I thought, with caring, of my friend who is sick and my friends who [...]

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bloom

Sometime between when I went to bed last night and when I awoke this morning, these daffodil blooms opened in my yard. I wondered: did they open during the cool and dark of night, or this morning, when the first sliver of sunlight reached out in to the day?

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be like my cat…or not: picking and choosing

A friend listed for me what was in her lexicon of memories of my cat based on stories I have told her over the past year that she has been collecting. It was not the most flattering list. Near the top: Sadie trying to squirm her way up into the housing of the left front [...]

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on the chalkboard april 13/08

In conviction let me be kind;
In anger let me…burn bright;
In surrender let me be rekindled by pure love.
–Judy Collins
from a preface page in her book, The Seven T’s: Finding Hope and Healing in the Wake of Tragedy, (c) 2007.

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why black umbrellas?

This is a question I ponder from time to time. How has it come to be that on dark, grey, or otherwise overcast, rainy days, so many people are in the habit of pulling out their black umbrellas? Why not red, or purple, or yellow, turquoise, sunny orange, or that gorgeous spring green? I [...]

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you make a difference

A colleague sent me the following link today. It is to a short movie well worth watching. I offer thanks to my colleague for thinking of me and sending this along, thanks to the creators of the film–and to each of you, I offer a blue ribbon.
http://www.BlueRibbonMovie.com

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turning points

A initial title idea for this week’s post, “The Snow Is Melting!” came to me earlier in the week as a lot of snow transformed and receded from view (and my sump pump worked over time in response). This morning, though, after rereading the quote now on the chalkboard, the idea of “turning points” settled [...]

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on the chalkboard: april 5/08

“Training in loving-kindness helps us remember it when we most need it. And sometimes, just to remember it is enough to create a turning point within us.”
–Bill Scheffel, Loving Kindness Meditation, (c) 2003, p10.

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