The Blue Flower

*This is the first in a two-part series on Being Intentional with our Time. “If the people about you are carrying on their business or...

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to...

“Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. There is nothing to do with men but to love...

“An artist date is a block of time, perhaps two hours weekly, especially set aside and committed to nurturing your creative...

“Our whole trouble in our lot in this world rises from the disagreement of our mind therewith. Let the mind be brought to the lot, and...

“What inexpressible joy for me, to look up through the apple-blossoms and the fluttering leaves, and to see God's love there; to listen...

“Our garden is now a wilderness of sweets. The violets, sweet briar, and primroses perfume the air, and the thrushes are full of melody...

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of...

“Do not be rash with your mouth, And let not your heart utter anything hastily before God…let your words be few.” ~Ecclesiastes 5:2, ...

*This the second in a two-part series on mothers and mothering. While most of my writing lately is prose, I also enjoy writing poetry. I...

*The is the first in a two-part series in honor of Mother's Day. My mother was a Jafra Queen Bee. If you were alive and used cosmetics...

*This is part of a two-part series on transcendent living: examining how we can focus on the half we can control in any situation (our...

“A little thought will show you how vastly your own happiness depends on the way other people bear themselves toward you. The looks and...

I watched the dawn come, Watched the spring dawn come. And the red sun shouldered his way up Through the grey, through the blue, Through...

“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson No one likes to wait. I have had a lot of experience with...

On the difference between concentration and attention: “To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but...

“What is your ancestral story and where was it in your line that you got displaced from living close to the land?” ~Ella Noah Bancroft...

“To have a sacred space is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t...

Desert Flowers (Keith Douglas, 1943) Living in a wide landscape are the flowers – Rosenberg I only repeat what you were saying – the...

“Only a week ago, we woke to find the surrounding fields pale with frost and the edge of every leaf picked out in white. Today is one of...