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At the office where I work, we do a Secret Santa/ Harry Hanukkah/Kerry Kwanzaa routine where we draw names and then for 2-3 weeks in December we look for any and all opportunities to do really sweet and cool things for that person. I have found that doing this helps me look more closely at [...]
The other day I saw a boy rolling across a parking lot on those sneakers with wheels in the heels. He was loving it, taking a few steps to get momentum then gliding forward with his right leg in front, a few more steps, a glide leading with his right. I watched him cross in [...]
When a stranger appears at your door,feed him for three daysbefore asking who he is,where he’s come from,where he’s headed.That way, he’ll have strengthenough to answer.Or, by then you’ll besuch good friendsyou don’t care. These words by Rumi-esque Arab-American poet Naomi Shihib Nye have echoed in my heart since I read them on Spiritual Zest [...]
I don’t remember where I heard this, or read it, but I am going to pretend it is true anyway because maybe it is. They say that a fairly short time after their babies are weaned bears no longer recognize their own cubs. Suddenly, it is just another bear in the woods, one with which [...]
A new member of our community, Roxanne, has just posted a story of grave hope and redemption. Thoughts on Acceptance and Change. It’s a hard one to read…but Roxanne is amazing in her lack of self-pity or recrimination. What may be even more powerful is her understanding of what forgiveness means–it’s not a simple ‘act’. [...]
After Apple Picking by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree Toward heaven still. And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the [...]
I finally feel like I’m a real Coloradoan. I looked at myself the other day, just before Thanksgiving when we hadn’t gotten much snow yet, just cold enough to build a fire in the woodstove: I sat outside with morning coffee watching the dogs play. Patches of snow remained from a shower days earlier not [...]
“We don’t have to be each other’s cup of tea, but tolerance lets a variety of kettles peacefully share the stove.” NPR This I Believe essay: True Tolerance by Joel Engardio This week I had an email dialogue with my oldest ‘surviving’ friend–the one that has never let my lapses in communication phase her. T. [...]
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