Coming in from the fields In agrarian societies such as rural Ireland, the harvest time was and is a time of bringing in from the fields all that’s been growing there. You truly reap what you sow. Some prefer the word Autumn to describe this season. I like to call it Autumn. For some reason, […]
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” This phrase, popularized during the 1960s and ’70s has a nice ring to it, indeed. A catchy phrase, so to say. It’s a way of reminding us that we can start fresh, start […]
Thinking is not being present I think therefore I am. — Descartes (1637) Latin: “Cogito, ergo sum” What may be lesser known is this: Soon thereafter, Descartes revised his own saying, to: “I am, I exist.” (1641) Now, THAT’s the spirit! When you’re thinking, you’re ‘mulling.’ You’re ‘somewhere else.’ Thinking takes you away from, or […]
Second things first “It’s become so automatic, I don’t even think about it when I’m doing it.” “It is so ‘second nature,’ I could do it in my sleep.” What if we put our second nature first? What if our second nature became our first nature? When we say something becomes second nature, we mean […]
Things we rotate “Rotate your tires” “Rotate your mattress” “Rotate your crops” Evenly distributed wear and tear threadbare tattered torn instead tread tread lightly leaving a gentle footprint and an easeful sharing and carrying of the load For your consideration: There is something to be said about […]
Structures What does it mean to have a structure? It is a framework A template Something that holds something together? To deconstruct– Is that to destroy? To “unbuild” what was built? What then is instruction? To in-build as in to build-in a set of instructions to follow To create something consisting of parts […]
April Showers Showering me with Raindrops on noses and young sisters with kittens Freshly washed sheets and soft white flowing linens Hung on the clothes line out in the Spring air With hopes that warm breezes soon will be there These are a few of life’s wondrous blessings so […]
Time change Time marches on And waits for no one Or, does it? Daylight Saving Time Are we saving daylight or saving time Both Neither What difference does it make if at all Who does the changing We change our time pieces Do we change […]
Wash away Wash away With the tides all that no longer holds us in our victimhood All that is too salty too painful in what was once upon a time an open wound No longer open But now healed and firmly held in abundant love and full forgiveness No longer open for […]
We the people in order to form a more perfect union “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity, do ordain and establish […]
