Darkness
In deep winter, darkness appears still and dormant, but listen closely and you will hear sounds of seeds germinating in the frozen ground, complete flowers secretly stored behind the seed’s husk. In darkness, nature finds rest, rejuvenation, and nourishment for the work of growing. Under the surface, there is invisible activity doing the essential preparation [...]
This past spring, I attended a TTouch for Humans workshop in St. Paul conducted by the founder of TTouch, Linda Tellington-Jones. I’ve been interested in TTouch since the early 90’s and am now more than halfway though the certification program for companion animals. So when I found out that Linda was teaching a workshop near [...]
The ocean has always been soothing to me. Somehow the surf, the salt spray, the pelicans skimming the blueness, gulls torpedoing in for dinner, the grit in my toes, the abundance invisible beneath the surface, the sheer, vast, power of the sea call me home to myself. I crave, no I need, the sea and [...]
In Seward, Alaska, the campgrounds were all full which was just as well. Seward’s city campgrounds are bumper-to-bumper RV sites and nylon-to-nylon tent sites. I prefer more space. But I was crabby as I drove out of town, I’d been driving all day and was past ready to stop.
While pumping gas, I mentioned my camping [...]
For years, I’ve been an instructional designer, technical writer, trainer, project manager and change analyst. I’ve loved it and there were days that I wished I could go plant flowers instead of solve business problems. This career gave me a good living and allowed me the means to do other things I love to do, [...]
I’ve been talking with my high school age friends about their awareness and concerns while using sites like Facebook. One young women told me about the creepy fifty something men who wanted to be her friend and how she had to cancel her account and start a new one to lose this creep. It got [...]
Sometime during the holiday season, you’ll probably hear a song from the movie The Sound of Music. “I simply remember my favorite things….” I love that movie! But it’s not the lyrics of a song from the movie that stand out. Rather it’s a piece of dialog from the scene where Maria is talking with [...]
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