Lent comes each year and I spend those weeks, as so many of us do, fasting from some things that I like coupled with reflecting on my life; contemplating what I can improve both spiritually and physically. After all of that time in a reflective state, my mind looks joyfully towards a time to...
You need to go outside… do it now and once more before the sun sets this day. Take a DEEP breath and look up into the clouds and watch them for a solid 10… do it… do it right now. Cloud surfing is so easy and should be done each week to clear the...
Mindfulness “When we plant the seed of a question or a problem in our consciousness, we need to trust that an insight will rise to the surface.” Thich Nhat Hanh...
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Today’s :Little Sweet Thoughts It is when you are going through the most difficult chapter of your life that your HERO IS REVEALED, and how beautiful it is when you finally realize you have the strength with God’s help to save yourself…...
Many of you are packing up your teenagers and heading to the universities this month. This will be their new home as they embark on their adventures and begin a new chapter both for their lives but for those off us as parents. I remember such an occasion on a crisp fall day in...
Living the Sweet Life : Being Mindful of the Greatness It’s that time of the year when we all are ready for the cold to dissipate and for the flowers to bloom. It’s GREATNESS time too. If your like me you found yourself last year reflecting and wondering “where did the year go?” Sometimes...
Recently I went back home and spent a few days where I was as a child and driving the through the back roads that were evergreen with pastures and twists and turns and I found myself at the old pond that I fished in as a child. T Lane and Sally’s fishpond in fact...
Random Act Of Kindness The past few weeks and months have just been horrific. From Stony Brook to the bombings in Boston, to the recovered kidnapped women held against their will for years and years. It seems that everywhere we have really bad people amongst us. Here’s some facts according to me…. I figure...
Spring is coming “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you, don’t go back to sleep!” Rumi Now I always know when it’s happening. I am awakened before dawn by the crisp chirps of the morning birds near my windows. They call to everyone who will listen that Spring is coming. If I...
Be Quiet and Listen Perhaps Martha Beck put it best, when asked about her favorite quote it was not from some journal or complicated literary work but a simple and yet so very true life lesson from none other than Winnie the Pooh! Here’s what she said… “Winnie the Pooh. There is a scene...
Celebrate Reading and Movies When I was a child, my Big Daddy and Granny would come pick me up right after Baptist choir camp to spend a month or so with them in the mountains. It was in many ways a very special time. Cousins would come and go, but it was particularly fantastic...
The How of Winning or Losing We all know the saying…”It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game”; and that well, is no more appropriate than when fighting with a diagnosis of breast cancer. Many of you are aware of my work from the past several years with mothers...
About Old Dogs and Children I once read a book about old dogs and children. Somehow, life always come down to that. The very old and the very young are perhaps the most interesting of us all. Dogs are for many “old souls”. In particular, when they enter the home and assume they are...
Reflect on The Fathers In Your Life Ok, first of all let me say Thanks to our readers! As I go about my daily life in Sugar Land I am often stopped by friends that are reading my column. I have been excited to learn how many of you look forward to this each...
Grandmother’s Wisdom The endearing task of writing this column each month has become for me a sort of beloved yet sacred space. A time for me to share with you (the world) some window into places you either can relate to or might not have thought about before. Occasionally I find myself giving the...
