inSpirations and inSights on my pebbled garden path…
Digging in the dirt...unearthing rocks, weeds, my thoughts turn to life's struggles...times my heart was breaking and I did not see a way out, a reasonable solution, how to get past the pain of the moment. Not knowing what else to do, I dug in the dirt. I weeded. I carried rocks. Pails of small …
Magnolia petals falling one by one teach us how to gently let go.
Actually every day is a mother's day.  This lifetime commitment isn't always easy, celebrated, or what you thought it would be. I've been lucky enough to be Bess' Mom for 13 years but she's the one teaching me. Bess is my beloved Border Collie who romps around the garden and shows me how to love …
Bess knows no limits to her generous smile. How lucky I am! The Daily Post: Smile
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day sat on my bucket list for several years. With no events offered in my small, semi-rural community, I made up my mind last year to drive 1.5 hours to participate. The powerful group energy felt like a profoundly calming universal hug, not to mention the good people I met …
Pets are on my mind. I've finished viewing "The Truth about Pet Cancer" which I alerted you to in my previous post "Your Pet Trusts You." And with today being National Pet Day I'm thinking about these beloved creatures more than usual.  According to PetSecure.com, "Americans spend over $50 billion annually on their pets, and …
The calendar indicates today is "Palm Sunday."Â Being a religious holiday, I often wondered in my youth why it wasn't called "Psalm Sunday" but as a gardener I'm just as happy to see green palms after a long, grey winter. And while it's (sadly) becoming increasingly unpopular and even dangerous to identify with any religious …
Continue reading "A Non-Religious but Spiritual Palm Sunday"
Missed starting over for the New Year, like so many do? Don't feel bad. It may have been Day 1 on the calendar, but Mother Nature begins anew with Spring. You can too. Becoming more aware of the paradoxes of life while studying the Tao, I suppose it's not so unusual that I occasionally rant …
wRighTing My Life 