Daddy-O!
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One week ago yesterday I drove out to Louisville to visit a friend and her family. It was a beautiful day and I noticed a group of horses frolicking in the meadow along the road. They didn’t have a care in the world, tossing their heads, punching one another with their noses, kicking [...]
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I have so many memories of my maternal grandmother. I used to spend a lot of time with her–cooking, playing cards, watching television, just talking. She and my grandfather lived on a farm, our closest neighbors at over a mile away.
We went trout fishing together. We shopped at junk stores. [...]
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I subscribe to a daily message from Mike Dooley. Here is what I found waiting for me this morning:
“…To give beyond reason, to care beyond hope, to love without limit; to reach, stretch, and dream, in spite of your fears. These are the hallmarks of divinity - traits of the immortal - your badges [...]
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Early this summer I took a handful of the sunflower seeds from the bag that I use to fill the bird feeder and dropped them into the dirt-filled flower pot next to the back door; in just a few days they sprouted. I wondered how tall the stalks might get as they seemed to [...]
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“Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health – and create profitable diseases and dependencies – by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, [...]
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…and happy new decade!!
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Last week it suddenly turned cold here in Boulder, not just a few degrees colder, it dropped from about 60 degrees F one day to 18 degrees F the next. It snowed too. Thankfully, it wasn’t windy.
My family and I were not ready for the change. We piled on extra layers, wore heavier clothing, put [...]
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