Archive for the tag 'reflecting on life'

February 26 2010

Thawing my Winter Heart

I love the quiet of the mornings when everyone else is off to school and work, and I get to sit down for some quiet reflection.  Last night we got a dusting of snow.  Now as the sun dances across the shimmering surfaces, I watch as the snow melts off the mailbox, first in drips, [...]

February 25 2010

Daily Wisdom

When I fell and broke my wrist in January, I very good friend of mine gave me an amazing gift.  It was a subscription to Philosopher’s Notes by Brian Johnson.  Brian has read all kinds of classic business, psychology and self help books and has written 6 page summaries and recorded 20 minute MP3s on [...]

December 28 2009

Happy Anniversary!

My husband and I have been married 24 years today.  What a wild ride it has been.  It seems so long ago that we were starving college students living in Minnesota.  Then we became parents for the first time in Iowa.  We came home to Colorado to be closer to grandparents.  We are now in [...]

November 23 2009

We Can't Go Back in Time

Mary Oliver, in her book Thirst, captures an image that stays with me, and reminds me that every moment has the potential to be life changing, and we cannot get those moments back once they have passed.  How often have we moved through time unaware, and only in the looking back over our day do [...]

October 27 2009

The Sunday Routine

The Sunday Routine
The board game is at least fifty years old.  And each time I open it, I remember Grandma:  her cookies, her giggle when she won at cards, her screwdriver drinks, the Broncos, and Scrabble.
My grandmother Mildred was a fixture at our house every Sunday when I was growing up.  After church, we would [...]

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