Winged Messengers

Jan 11, 2012 | Quotes, The Writing Life

Yesterday, as my daughter drove to pick up her friend for carpool [she doesn’t get her license until later this month], I noticed a huge hawk sitting on the curb. We slowed down to get a better look.  It was huge and totally indifferent to our car.  I contemplated...

Monday's Motivating Word

Dec 12, 2011 | Quotes

Joy I sometimes struggle with the concept of joy. Too often I confuse it with being happy.  But joy comes from the Lord, and it is available to us whenever we stop to pay attention. I feel it when I stand with my hands lifted high, singing praises to the Lord. I feel...

Monday's Motivating Word

Nov 21, 2011 | Quotes

GRATITUDE It seems cliché to say be grateful on the Monday before Thanksgiving. But for some reason this word keeps coming to my mind. Perhaps it is because as I head into the holiday season my eyes are more open to those around me who are less fortunate. I see how...

Reading and Ruminating – Krik?Krak!

Nov 18, 2011 | Books, Quotes

Lately, I’ve had a lot of free time on my hands so I decided to volunteer at a local shelter for women. I thought it might be helpful if I taught a writing class, but the program didn’t really lend itself to that type of thing.  I went to the volunteer...

Monday's Motivating Word

Nov 14, 2011 | Quotes

Play To engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose. We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play. ― Charles Schaefer Do something just for fun...

Motivating Word

Oct 17, 2011 | Quotes

ACTION The process or state of acting or of being active. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your life on the bus, or in the car, or at the computer. Not just the...