This morning I decided to create a little bit of spring beauty with my fading alstroemeria flowers. So I found a nice snow drift outside the sliding glass window downstairs and “planted” the flowers there. It makes me smile when I look out the window. If I can inject some Read more…
I was talking with a friend recently and she asked an interesting question about purpose and age. She had recently celebrated a milestone birthday and wondered What Now? How should she be spending her days? What purpose(s) should she be pursuing? What really matters at this stage in her life? Read more…
The day before yesterday I saw the first signs of water at the edge of the mostly frozen pond. Then yesterday late afternoon I saw Ducks in the Pond for the first time this spring! There wasn’t much space for them to swim in but they were dabbling and finding Read more…
I’ve been thinking about what it means to be Alive Now, in this moment, longing for spring to arrive, waiting, wanting, wishing, dreaming of green things growing. Can I be content despite the continuing cold nights, barely warming days, frozen lakes and ponds, white covered ground? It seems that I Read more…
The first day of spring arrived and the ground was still covered with snow. But somehow, it feels different now, as if spring really is arriving. When I look out my bedroom window in the morning I can see that The Melt has begun. The surface of the snow looks Read more…