Have you seen this? The “word of the year?” I thought about it and thought about it and wonder of wonders it struck me during yoga that perhaps my word this year could be to just “breathe.” A little background: I have recently become an anxious ball of nerves. Anxiety has been an unwelcome guest … [Read more…]
I’ve been quiet here of late because I have been swamped with life. Despite my best efforts to do the “simplicity thing” I have failed miserably. It’s time to get back on the horse and “Ride, Sally, Ride!” (I actually have no idea what that song is about but it fits…) Recently I had an opportunity … [Read more…]
It seems that the more I strive toward wanting to make things a bit simpler, easier, better to cope with, the more they just get complicated. I can write fairly inane posts about cleaning out my closet or wearing certain clothing, etc, but really that is just a few minor things. The rest of our lives … [Read more…]
This week is VBS (vacation bible school) week at my church. I had volunteered to help with the music before knowing the dates and it turned out that my husbands birthday is in the middle of it (today, in fact). He had his own gig scheduled at a park this evening and I knew if … [Read more…]
“Your inbox is empty” This might be the most lovely sentence in the English language. Empty. As in all 2600+ email messages are GONE. So long. Buh bye. I sat down Sunday night and got serious about cleaning up my email. Mostly because it involved sitting and partly because having all that email … [Read more…]
If I could save time in a bottle…. (are you singing it?) 😉 This morning I decided to write about time. The time we take and the time we give. We tend, I think, to give much more time than we take for ourselves and for what is really important. Today, Saturday, is the one … [Read more…]