Today is the day! After seventeen weeks away, Becca is finally coming home from her semester abroad. It has been an amazing experience for her, yet she is just as excited as we are for her to arrive home. Even Tigger and the Christmas Bear await hugs from Becca.
I love that my little girl [...]
Archive for the tag 'reflecting on encounters with others'
December 17 2010
Tigger Awaits
November 5 2010
Turkey Breasts Anyone?
Natural turkeys are on sale at Whole Foods and I want to take advantage of the sale. Knowing that a turkey is all I am picking up, I neglect to snag a small cart as I am walking into the store. I head back to the meat department and find the frozen turkeys I am [...]
September 15 2010
Earth Angels
Thank God for the helpers who come along right when you need them.
I was on my way home from the cabin and hadn’t even gotten to Berthoud Pass when the temperature gauge on my car went past hot in a matter of minutes. I pulled into the Alco parking lot in Frasier and wondered what I [...]
September 13 2010
Gratitude
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
I had the luxury of spending the weekend at the family cabin on Columbine Lake right outside Grand Lake. It was an amazing weekend to spend by myself, organizing my journal from 15 years ago into [...]
September 2 2010
Goodbye Dr. Sherlock Holmes
He came to me in a dream. I hadn’t seen him for well over a year, and was so sad to hear of his death last August. I wasn’t able to attend the funeral.
He was my Sherlock Holmes, the doctor who spent countless hours on my case, trying to figure out what continued to plague [...]
