We just got back from a whirlwind trip to visit my sister & family, my cousins, and my Aunts and Uncles. Nostalgia- magic memories of days gone by- a time when things were simpler, kinder, sweeter; played in my mind like a haunting melody. Both Aunt Eleanor and Aunt Mary, who in my child’s […]
The term WALKABOUT was made famous from the movie Crocodile Dundee! Background: Australian: A journey through the wilderness of one’s choosing in an effort to satisfy one’s itchy feet, a need to be elsewhere, the craving for the open road, that space over the horizon… you can’t quite touch it so you have to go […]
Walking around Silver Dollar City again, I stole away to observe the glass blowing exhibit. Every time I’m amazed, but today, I was mesmerized! It was like I was watching a visible parable of mankind in the creative hand of the Master Artisan. It reminded me of a verse that most people quote in a negative, ominous tone. [Tweet […]
There’s a difference between grief, sadness, and depression, and falling into the quick sands of self-pity. Depression is being consumed with sadness- self pity is being consumed with our SELF. [Tweet “Don’t go near the quick sands of self pity; it will swallow you alive #selfpity “] After our daughter, Kristin, died, I traveled through […]