When I retired at the beginning of 2022, I did not picture myself sitting in a chair looking down at the deep end of a pool, blowing the whistle to keep kids from running on the pool deck. Let me back up. Last summer I helped out at a week of family camp a mere 20 miles from home. My grandkids’ other grandma graciously agreed … Continue reading And Now for Something Completely Different
One of the exercises in my creativity group last year was to incorporate the title of a song into a poem. This one reflects a favorite hymn that was not in the anthology of those we sang in my childhood, but I learned as an adult and came to love. I love to sing, in choirs, in the car, at bedsides. I am grateful that … Continue reading Giving Thanks
It is more than being thankful as our mothers taught us. Henri Nouwen says it well: “Gratitude is not a simple emotion or an obvious attitude.” Read the entire quote on today’s Daily Dig from Plough Publishing: http://www.plough.com/en/subscriptions/daily-dig/even/october/daily-dig-for-october-29 I have only begun to appreciate the riches of maintaining a grateful stance. As Nouwen says, it is a difficult discipline, but it is one of the … Continue reading On Gratitude
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