"The waves are HUGE! White caps! Come look!" Todd sounded like a little boy discovering the water for the first time. "Where?" I said walking into the room not yet awake. "There! Oop...here comes another set!" It looked more like a ripple to me but we see things as we want to see them, don't [...]
I dreamt of mosquito net canopies cascading from tree branches overhead in the wild and woke up in my bed in Mexico to buzzing in my ear. I picked up my phone hoping it would say 5:00 but saw 3:00. AP flashed across the top of my screen that there had been a bombing in Brussels. Oh [...]
“No, I can't have my coffee yet,” I say to Todd who is walking all tall and handsome like towards me with a freshly dripped cup of coffee, just the right temperature and color. “I haven't had my pill yet." “Which one?” He asks. “Your Hair Essentials?” I laugh. He smirks. “They’re on the shelf. [...]
Scouting out dinner locations tonight was a challenge. Everywhere we went had a 30 degree sloop, single lane--up and up and up. Our Mitsubishi March rental with its manual transmission and the reverse in the wrong place didn't help. I was nervous. So Todd looked for a place where you turn in and go down. [...]
Heart be still Hear heaven's sound See there? Gulls' music greets the day and all it brings Look for good in all See there? Joy like water's ripples Ever widening Beyond all senses Beyond all knowledge Still bears fruit from long years' past Joy, like Love, alone shall last
My mom used to tell me I needed to learn to be thankful in all situations. I heard it more than once in the years before her difficult death. I have had to work at that and was reminded once again this morning that when our prayers are wrapped in gratitude they have wings to [...]
It's 3:00 a.m. and I wake up when Todd says, "There's a critter in your closet." Silence... "Rose is in there." Good, I think, go back to sleep. "...now it's behind the bed." "Sweetie, I don't need an update. Shh!" "Whoa!" "What?" "It just flew past me!" I pull the blanket over my head as [...]
You are Wounded Caged, deceived Barren Naked Wars, rumors, quakes Famines Live within Release You Find Me Intimacy Unchained I Am Complete I Am Forgiveness
The day before Christmas, we talked about waves. My son's call came in the early morning from a thousand miles away--I closed my eyes so he could sit beside me. It was an honest talk.....one where we let the truth rise and fall on each other. A mother holding her son, that's Christmas, I thought, [...]
When the sun is scarce and the air too cold to breathe, I do my best to ignore the dryness in my eyes and on the tips of my fingers. I listen to more music and try to remember to take vitamin D. I take walks to avoid the dreaded seasonal depression that comes along [...]
Not According to Plan 