Using all the colors in the box…
Life is like a box of crayons. And we are always choosing the colors we prefer. I love the possibilities suggested by Terri Guillements, a quotations anthologist, that (Aren’t her descriptions just awesome?!) I believe it is heresy to get into the habit of calling a grey day a “colorless” day even in this sometimes […]
an older but wiser story
Here’s a story I told five years ago…and I still like the lesson! As I’ve gotten older and find myself looking ‘for a gate to open rather than climbing over a fence’, I can at least say to myself, “I may be slower, but at least I am wiser.” With that thought in mind, here’s […]
Both the dark and the light…
Last Sunday we changed our clocks to begin Daylight Saving Time. We seem to have gotten used to wanting more light sooner and so we artificially “Spring Forward” yearly to get an “extra” hour of sunlight! And now this coming Friday (March 20) we celebrate the first day of Spring (the vernal equinox), that point […]
Spring forward or..?
Although that image of cutting off a foot at the top of the blanket and sewing it on the bottom of the blanket doesn’t really make much sense, we still do it! We all have two choices as we move our clocks forward an hour for Daylight Savings Time. Choice 1: Spring Forward Today! Although […]
got a dragon on your mind?
The current events of our days may well feel like we are confronting dragons. Ever feel like you are hemmed in by the dragons on the edges of our present map? What’s just outside our experience of our known world today? Do we imagine it like some ancient mapmakers did, as being home to the […]