Loving Well
Valentine’s Day has turned into a commercial holiday. Restaurants create special menus and charge inflated prices. Chocolates and flowers abound. This day that focuses on love cannot be all that bad. Couples celebrate their...
Author: Penny
Wind
Do you ever think about the wind? For me, wind happens. I did not think much about it. Last month a winter storm brought with it relentless wind. The wind knocked down large trees...
Adjusting Expectations
Do your expectations ever trip you up? I can honestly say mine often do. You look forward to something only to be disappointed. It could be expectations about something as small as a movie...
Singing
Do you like to sing? Maybe you like to sing when you shower so no one else can hear you? Or with enough drinks, you get courage and participate in a round of karaoke?...
Morning Dreams
Some mornings, I wake up and vividly remember a dream, or fragments of it. Sometimes, the dream does not want to leave my mind. To release the dream, and even learn something from it,...
Listening Well
How good of a listener are you? Communicating with other people can be challenging at times. A lot of times the people that inhabit our sphere the most are those we have listening issues...
Look around
I like to walk in nature to clear my mind as well as to hear from God. Not feeling inspired on what to write about, I hoped taking a walk would inspire me. As...
Holiday Season
Thanksgiving has come and gone. My birthday falls around Thanksgiving, sometimes landing on that day. Growing up, my family celebrated my (and my brother’s) birthday on Thanksgiving. I always liked that holiday, probably because...
Procrastinating
I find myself procrastinating these days. Instead of writing this blog, exercising, decluttering my house, I spend time staring at my phone, cooking, feeding the birds. I fake productivity and do pretty much anything...
Glimmers
Listening to a radio program, the DJ mentioned the word “glimmers”. Unlike triggers that make you agitated, glimmers fill you with joy. I started wondering, do I intentionally look for glimmers? Do I take...
