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Coming Home…
Dear Reader: I’m coming home and isn’t returning home after a fabulous week of old friendships really hard? Part of me wants to see home again to make sure the flowers and garden are okay and the...
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Summer Shadows of Ya Sisters in “Retreat”
Dear Reader: On our last evening at Edisto on our Ya retreat….we came out of self-imposed “retreating” long enough to down a drink, watch the ocean, and have our annual photo made by the prettiest,...
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Nostalgia…
Dear Reader: “Nostalgia is defined as “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.” Jackson loaned me her tractor she...
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A Second Look Before We Begin…
Dear Reader: Lately I have realized that before we begin any project or process in life we need to re-check to see if it is right side-up, or facing the front, not back, or even identified correctly...
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When Calm Becomes Contagious and Stillness a Clearing
Dear Reader: I must confess that I am a closet worrier who can go “willy nilly” on you in a skinny minute. I am all over the place in my visualization about a problem. Sadly….one drawback to...
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Being True to Yourself
Dear Reader: The other day in a Huffington Post article on finding your true self and then staying true to it…. an example (was given) of a woman who found a pillow in a small antique shop on sale for...
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Get Close…GATHER
Dear Reader: You know you are getting old… when you begin to fear that future generations will never be able to read first-hand historical documents because they can’t write or read cursive. You know...
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Finding Meaning and Beauty in Every Day Life
Dear Reader: Life always finds a way to keep climbing. When I went out to water the plants yesterday the morning glory vines were going berserk. One had jumped on the fairy picture and was starting to...
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“Live by the Sun… Love by the Moon”
Dear Reader: This is a wonderful “mantra” for those of us lucky enough to live in the lowcountry of South Carolina. I noticed Thursday night that the moon is getting fuller and brighter… ethereal in...
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“My Daddy” on Father’s Day/2016
Dear Reader: Happy Father’s Day! My only wish on this day is that I had more memories of my own father. The few sketchy “memories” I have of daddy are based more on second-hand accounts…. heard from...
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Who Shot Alexander Hamilton?
Dear Reader: One of the funniest “Got Milk” commercials has to be the peanut butter sandwich stuffed in a contestants’ mouth with no milk left when he is asked the $10,000 question: “Who shot...
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Verbal Treasures and Daunting Detours in Life
Dear Reader: As you know, from yesterday’s blog, I am spending an inordinate amount of time these days, set aside, for reading the biography of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. The pages are large...
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” The Dying Year Was So Beautiful”… a Memory Worth Reliving
Dear Reader: * By accident I came across a two-day reflection blog I did January 9 and 10 of 2015. The day I returned home from the beach, Friday June 10, my blog was going crazy….up, up, up with...
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Wake Up! A Day of Wonder Awaits… In Loving Memory
(Today we are finishing up my memories of Ireland from the summer of 2014…..memories to last me a lifetime…re-written and saved now on the Chapel of Hope Stories Pt 2…..taken from January 10,...
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Answer the Real Question: “How is your Heart Today?”
Dear Reader: The other day I came across an article which made me pause and reflect on our daily greetings and their cultural significance. We, Americans, are used to “How are you today?” as we...
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Our Individual Hidden Cosmos
Dear Reader: In one of Jerry Seinfeld’s questions on life (in his famous sit-con series) he wondered out-loud to Elaine one day (reflecting on his parent’s move to a tiny condo in Florida) why when...
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“It Doesn’t take a Long Time for a Long Time to Pass”
Dear Reader: I thoroughly enjoyed all the stories in the latest edition of Azalea Magazine but one article, Family Tides by Tara Bailey, really struck home with me a familiar ritual, as well as, I am...
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“We are all visitors to this time and place”…
Dear Reader: One evening, as I watching Jeopardy, I heard a buzzer go off (several times) dismissing the correct answer because a contestant forgot to frame the answer into a form of a question. In a...
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It’s a Fine Line: Becoming Mature Enough to be Childlike
Dear Reader: Madeleine L’Engle once said: “A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.” As children, don’t we...
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Boo’s Bugaboos
Dear Reader: You will be quite proud of me ( I am! Whew!!!) for having gotten almost halfway through Hamilton. (“If I were a rich man”….surely two hours of the Broadway play would be a lot easier on...
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