How many times have I traveled this road as it bends and curves? Enough lately so I dare to look around and let the Journey carry me. It strains to climb. Carmine and golden hills surround me. This is ski country after all. My dad says this road was once an Indian trail that led […]
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Sunrise by Megan Willome
SUNRISE by Megan Willome It’s disgraceful All this color Splattered Pink flung Purple creeping Then orange Why orange? The clouds grey as the sun puts on bright clothes Who wastes color like this? Flinging beauty willy-nilly As if everyone would see this sunrise *********************************** Don’t waste His color! I got an email from Megan last […]
When You Want to be Relevant
Bold and beautiful. Without editing. In five minutes. That’s how we’re supposed to write on Five-Minute Friday. So. Go! It’s not a word I use much. Relevant. But Lisa Jo is at the Relevant Conference. So that word is on her mind. I had to look it up. And then I wondered if it was […]
Rest and Refresh
We spent a couple of nights in the Days Inn. And then early morning hours in a small hospital waiting room lit by Coke and candy machines. That was the night my mom’s blood pressure was whack. My sister swiped a couple pillows off a stretcher in a hallway and cleaned them with her always-present […]
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Death is Gone for Good
I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: “Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They’re his people, he’s their God. He’ll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good—tears gone, crying gone, pain gone—all the first order of things gone.” The Enthroned continued, […]
Book Review ~ Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success by K.M. Weiland
I’ve been waiting for K.M. to finish this book. And it’s more than I expected. Way more. Easy to read. Fun to read. Organized. It overflows with practical tools and tips for plotter and pantster alike. Just take a look at the table of contents. I mean, really, doesn’t it make you want to dig […]
Saturday Snaps ~ A Squirrel’s Heartbeat
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. ~George Eliot, English Novelist, Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880, in Middlemarch
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Enter the Place of Worship
Photos: Old St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Gaylord, MI Give me your lantern and compass, give me a map, So I can find my way to the sacred mountain, to the place of your presence, To enter the place of worship, meet my exuberant God, Sing my thanks with a harp, magnificent God, my God. ~Psalm […]
Aunt Emma
Today Lisa Jo asks us to stop, drop, and write for five minutes on the word, “catch,” without worrying if what we write is right. GO! “Look! Penguins!” I was maybe four years old, and we were at the train station. Great-Aunt Emma had come from out of state for a visit. Sister Mary Lucinda. […]
Mindful Aging–Corn, Cars, and Snowshoes
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate . . . To my own surprise, I burst out with hot conviction. ~Florida Scott-Maxwell as quoted in Mindfulness, p. 93 I’ll call him John. He was a retired minister who lived in […]
